In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743200073)

Dr. Bill Weber has worked for over thirty years in the field of international conservation. He lived in Africa for nine years, where he and his wife, Dr. Amy Vedder, helped to establish the famous Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda and several other park and forest protection initiatives across the Congo Basin. Later, as the director of North America Programs for the Wildlife Conservation Society, he oversaw dozens of projects from Alaska to the Adirondacks, addressing issues from lynx and wolf recovery to fire ecology, ecotourism, and community-based conservation. He also co-edited African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation, co-authored In the Kingdom of Gorillas, and served as co-chair of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.

Dr. Amy Vedder is an ecologist and primatologist who has worked for over thirty years as an international wildlife and wild lands conservationist. She helped to establish the famous Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda with Dr. Bill Weber, pioneering ecotourism and community outreach programs in Burundi and Rwanda. She later served as program director for Wildlife Conservation Society's Africa Program, as well as senior technical advisor for the GEF/UNDP, and senior vice president for conservation at The Wilderness Society. She has lectured at Yale School of the Environment, co-edited African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation, and co-authored In the Kingdom of Gorillas.