
Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist is a new three-part documentary from National Geographic that uses rare footage of the wildlife pioneer to tell her story. Fossey’s story is a compelling one and she, perhaps more than anyone else, brought attention to human and gorilla relations and indeed just how close we are to our primate cousins. Legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough says that Fossey’s work in Rwanda undoubtedly saved the mountain gorilla species. In her own words primatologist and conservationist Fossey wrote: ” Neither destiny or fate took me to Africa, nor was it romance. I had...read more