Ellen Degeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

This campus is a gift of Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi that provided to Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund a research and learning facility.The Dian Fossey Gorilla fund has been a hub for researchers and students from around the world to study Gorillas and their unique habitat. Born in San Francisco, California in 1932, Dian Fossey is very known as a pioneering scientist who taught the world about the mountain Gorillas of Rwanda and devoted her life to their protection. She first traveled to Africa in 1963 and settled in Rwanda in 1967