Ellen Degeneres has marked the fourth anniversary of The Ellen Fund by opening the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund near Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda.
Picture: Getaway Gallery
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is an international is a charity for the protection of endangered mountain gorillas founded in 1978 by the late primatologist and conservationist.
‘Growing up, my hero was Dian Fossey because of what she did to bring awareness to the mountain gorillas,’ Ellen said when she announced the news on her talk show on Monday, 31 January.
According to Rwanda’s The New Times, visitors to the centre can expect to see artefacts from Fossey’s 18 years of living with Gorillas as well as augmented virtual reality experiences.
Inside the new Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Picture: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
‘The Ellen Campus represents a huge expansion of our teaching and laboratory spaces, enabling us to not just increase but transform our programs to study gorillas and their critical forest habitat and bring educational opportunities to early-career African scientists and members of the local community,’ said Felix Ndagijimana, the Fossey Fund’s director of Rwanda programs.
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