Virunga Mountains

Dian Fossey was born on January 16, 1932 in San Francisco, California. Her parents divorced when she was very young, so she grew up with her mother and stepfather. She was a very good student and always had a love for animals. Dian enrolled in college courses at Marin Junior College to focus on business due to her stepfather being a wealthy businessman. She worked during school and at age 19 during summer break, she worked at a ranch in Montana. At the ranch she fell in love with and became…

Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. Can you imagine thirty-six football fields being wiped out per minute? This is happening to our forests, between twelve to fifteen million hectares of forest are lost each year. The DRC Congo and Australia have both undergone Deforestation which has led to loss in biodiversity, releases carbon gases into the atmosphere and many more devastating effects. Around half the world’s tropical…