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About us
Founded in 1986 in the wake of Dian Fossey's murder, Gorilla funds the protection of great apes, without intermediaries and with a volunteer board.
Gorilla Association · since 1986
Help us save the last gorillas
Since 1986, the Gorilla association has supported the rangers, national parks and communities who protect great apes in Central Africa.
Born the day after Dian Fossey's murder
Dian Fossey was murdered in Rwanda on the night of 26 to 27 December 1985. The very next day, Fabrice Martinez founded the Gorilla association and flew to Rwanda, where he pitched his tent at the foot of a volcano, in mountain gorilla territory.
Forty years later, Gorilla works without intermediaries alongside the rangers and the communities living around the parks, in Rwanda and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In this site
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Our work
Support for rangers and the fight against poaching, Nature clubs in schools, the battle against deforestation: concrete action, with local communities.
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Gorillas
Two species, four subspecies, all threatened with extinction: how the largest of the primates lives, and the rules for approaching it.
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Rwanda
In Dian Fossey's footsteps, at the heart of Volcanoes National Park, sanctuary of the mountain gorillas.
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The Dian Fossey case
Forty years after her murder, Fabrice Martinez's investigation to finally obtain justice for the famous primatologist.
Headlines
DR Congo: a gorilla killed in Kahuzi-Biega National Park on 10 July 2026
The alleged perpetrator has been arrested and handed over to the judicial authorities in Walikale, North Kivu, to answer for his actions in court. We deplore this act, which seriously harms a protected species and the…
Rwanda: extension of the gorilla park
DR Congo: STOP the killing of rare species in the Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega parks
40 years!
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.