‘Escape Under the Forever Sky’ and ‘Escape by Sea’ Nov 14, 2009
Passionate about animals, Lucy studies the work of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey and plans to become an animal behaviorist herself. When she does manage to slip away, however, she makes a mistake and is kidnapped. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Man wanted in Europe found working at Neb. prison Oct 21, 2009
The department offered a job to Wayne Richard McGuire, but rescinded the offer after The Associated Press reported that he had been convicted in absentia in Rwanda of the 1985 murder of Dian Fossey, whose research was the subject of the movie "Gorillas in the Mist.". Preclik (pronounced PRESS'-lik) wound up in Nebraska in 2002 when he got a job at a hog farm through a company that recruited Eastern Europeans as laborers in violation of their tourist visas. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
More than 20 years after Fossey film, Sigourney Weaver still committed to gorilla preservation Oct 12, 2009
It's a joint project of the Atlanta-based Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and several other organizations. Fossey made researching the African gorilla population, and rescuing them from poachers and other threats, her life's mission. (FOX61, CT)
Been and gone Oct 3, 2009
He went on to star, on the other side of the law, as the chief constable in the BBC series Scotch on the Rocks, and as the procurator fiscal of a rural Scottish community in Sutherland's Law, also for the BBC. He made a number of film appearances, notably as the wrongly imprisoned father in The Railway Children, in which he had the pleasure of hugging a young Jenny Agutter, and a part in Gorillas in the Mist, the film biography of Dian Fossey ... One of Dian Fossey's subjects, a silverback... (BBC News -- UK)
Sunday's TV: The Castle May 15, 2009
They reminisce about the trip and the work of Dian Fossey, the great champion of gorilla conservation who was murdered in 1985. They also look at how the small colony of gorillas not only survived years of poaching, destruction of their habitat and 1994's savage civil war but thrived. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
TRACKING GORILLAS IN THE MIST: Cameron woman shares close encounters in Rwanda Mar 29, 2009
The plight of the mountain gorillas was publicized in the book "Gorillas in the Mist" by American primatologist Dian Fossey. The 1985 murder of Fossey and the mass killings that occurred during the civil war in 1994 have left their mark. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
