In 1992, the US branch of the Digit Fund became the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. Following the Rwandan genocide, Karisoke was moved to Ruhengeri, where research continues. Though the ...

This story appears in the April 1981 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was Digit, and he was gone. The mutilated body, head and hands hacked off for grisly trophies, lay limp in the brush ...

Digit, an intimidating silverback and a Fossey favorite, became the namesake of her campaign to raise money after he was killed. Photograph by DIAN FOSSEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE In April ...