Three years ago, a number of us were on a boat in Antarctica and started talking about taking a trip together to Africa. We planned it for 2020, but the pandemic repeatedly delayed it until this year. With the help of our travel agent, Mama Tembo Tours in Zambia, we chose two destinations in Rwanda …
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Dian Fossey, the Mountain Gorillas and Me
Conservation of the Mountain Gorilla: a Snapshot from 1978 In 1978, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rwanda working on fish culture development. On July 4 of that year, I attended the U.S. ambassador’s Independence Day party. A friend of mine, Bill Weber, came over to me and told me that he had just …
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