My topic is Dian Fossey and her stand against gorilla poachers in Africa. She was researching gorillas in Africa when she fell in love with them. She was fiercely protective of them and she stood up against poachers by dismantling traps, fighting them, and continuing the research that put her in danger. In December of 1985, Dian Fossey was brutally murdered with a poacher's macete. While her murder remains unsolved, we have been lead to believe that she was killed by poachers for standing up against them. Not only did Dian Fossey attempt to stop the poaching of gorillas, she changed the way gorillas were seen around the
