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Dr. Vedder's Report
Following her presentation at the Rwanda Fete on September 20, conservationist and author Dr. Amy Vedder gave a lunchtime talk to staff, docents and volunteers. Doctor Vedder, who is currently a lecturer at Yale University, along with her husband Dr. Bill Weber, founded the Mountain Gorilla Project in 1979 to let the world see and experience gorillas in their wild Rwandan habitat.
Dr. Vedder talked about her first professional experience with the mountain gorillas, at Dian Fosse’s Karisoke Research Center. There, as an ecologist, she studied the feeding habits of the gorillas. She went on to explain how her involvement with the gorillas grew as she began to feel connected to individual gorillas. Eventually, this connection is what led her
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