“The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is thrilled to be recognized for our work over the last five decades to protect critically endangered gorillas,” said Tara Stoinski, president and CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Critical to the Fossey Fund’s success has been a number of AZA partners who have provide essential financial, programmatic and governance support for much of the organization’s history. The Fund now also works in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help the rapidly dwindling Grauer’s gorillas. Using a holistic approach that includes daily protection, scientific research, training the next generation of conservations, and helping communities, the Fossey Fund has helped bring mountain gorillas back from the brink of extinction. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund’s effort to study and protect gorillas began 50 years ago. “Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and its AZA partners are global leaders in the field and this award recognizes their five decades of work on eastern gorillas as an outstanding example of the contributions zoo and aquarium professionals are making through research and field conservation projects.” “With conservation as our mission, AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums directly contribute to the survival of hundreds of imperiled species in nature,” said AZA President and CEO Dan Ashe. Winning projects are recognized as models of zoo-driven global conservation movements. This annual award recognizes exceptional efforts toward regional habitat preservation, species restoration, and support of biodiversity in the wild. All ten collaborating partners are AZA-accredited facilities. Direct: 50 | Media Only: Rob Vernon, Archibald, Dian Fossey Gorilla Spring, Maryland (December 20, 2017) – The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) announced that the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund along with the Louisville Zoo and nine other collaborating conservation partners received “Top Honors” in AZA’s 2017 International Conservation Award for gorilla conservation as documented in the award application, Saving One of the World’s Most Charismatic Species: 50 years of Conserving Eastern Gorillas.
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