Amy Vedder
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Amy Vedder (born March 24, 1951, in
Biography
Vedder was the Class of 1969 valedictorian at Canajoharie High School, Canajoharie, New York, and a 1973 graduate of Swarthmore College.
Vedder worked in Africa for the
In 1975, Vedder returned to the United States where she began searching for a graduate school where they could launch her career in wildlife conservation. She and Bill chose the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From one of their graduate program's classmates, the couple learned about British primatologist Richard Wrangham who recently visited Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park. In October 1977 they met Dian Fossey in Chicago, where she accepted their research proposal and set a tentative date for their arrival in Rwanda.
In 1978 she arrived in
After getting a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1989, she became Biodiversity Coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and later director of the conservation of the society's Africa Program.
One of Vedder's contributions[citation needed] was to implement the Mountain Gorilla Project (subsequently the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP)), which sought to involve local Rwandans and use ecotourism to help conserve the gorillas.[2]
Bibliography
- Vedder, Amy & Weber, William (2001). In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land. ISBN 978-0-7432-0006-6.
- Nienaber, Georgianne (2006). Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey. ISBN 978-0-595-37669-8.
- Vedder, Amy (2006). Gorilla Mountain The Story of Wildlife Biologist Amy Vedder. National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-09551-8.
References
External links
- Profile at American Museum of Natural History
- Faculty page at Yale University