Gorilla Tactics How to Save a Species

by Cummings, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780897330312
• ISBN10: 0897330315
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-03-05
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

Gorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction.
Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He shares his fascinating experiences as a “wildlife Robin Hood”—raising money from the rich and famous and redistributing it to endangered gorillas and their habitats.
He met and enlisted the help of celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver, Arthur C. Clark, Douglas Adams, and Leonardo DiCaprio. This thirty-year worldwide journey moves from boardrooms in Manhattan and London to mountain treks in Rwanda and Congo.
Gorilla Tactics is sure to enchant readers with Greg’s unique experiences, while sharing insight into the work it takes to save a species from extinction.

Author Biography

Greg Cummings has been featured in international publications such as the Guardian, Ecologist, and Sea Angler. In 2006 his organization was awarded the BBC Animal Award for best wildlife conservation program. A fundraiser since 1990, Cummings has raised money in America, Britain, France, Holland, Italy, and Canada for causes ranging from wildlife conservation to mental health. As director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund UK, he set up dozens of innovative, grassroots projects in troubled parts of the world—many of which are self-sustaining to this day. His global perspective has given him an eye for where the next crisis might arise, and how to thwart it. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

1. April 11, 1994

2. A New Career

3. Monkey Business

4. Into Africa

5. Creating a Conservation Culture

6. Mission to Planet Earth

7. Gorillas from Space

8. Virtual Africa Office

9. Congo

10. A Once-and-for-All Fund

11. WTF?

12. Our DNA

13. In Too Deep

14. Campaign for Gorilla-Friendly Technology

15. Digging in the Dirt

16. Save the Gorilla

17. No One Loved Gorillas More

18. A Burnt-Out Career

19. Legacy