igorilla.org: Other Stuff

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Our mission is to educate students about mountain gorillas and the threat of extinction that they face. It is hoped that, through education, students will feel compelled to take action themselves and help to raise funds for the Gorilla Doctors. The Gorilla Doctors have been operating in Africa since 1986 and began a partnership with UC Davis in April 2009.

igorilla.org was founded in 2008 by Tony Hartman, who first saw mountain gorillas in Zaire (now the DR Congo) in 1989. Making eye contact with the gorillas left him profoundly moved, with the undeniable feeling that they are intelligent, conscious creatures, with emotions not unlike those of us humans. 19 years later his passion for them led him back to Africa to document their struggle to survive as a species. This time he visited them twice - in Uganda and Rwanda. He is pictured here shooting video of gorillas in Rwanda in July 2008.

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Tony's bio

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igorilla.org is dedicated to helping The Gorilla Doctors meet their fundraising goals. In addition to a monthly donation given directly by igorilla.org since August 2009, we organize an annual fundraising benefit at Ortega Elementary School in Pacifica, California.

Please click on a date to view our past benefits:

April 27, 2012

March 4, 2011

December 4, 2009

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