Following in the pioneering footsteps of Carl Akeley, George Schaller and John Emlen, I first went to study the rare mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes of northern Rwanda, Central Africa with the late Dian Fossey in 1970. After she made it impossible for me to continue my research at her camp I moved to study the gorillas in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in what is now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo. I have since had a lifetime working with Rwanda - especially to help them re-building after the terrible war and Genocide in 1994. In other areas of my life I studied how to help people learn - especially using the developing IT technologies. In 1999 I was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to travel the globe to research how the emerging Virtual Reality technology could be used in Education and Training. Following that I was invited to become the Honorary Consul for Rwanda in the newly created Scottish Parliament. Since then I have been following my remit to help them re Education. More recently I have been involved in projects to help the Batwa in Rwanda, who were evicted from their forest homes when Carl Akeley's dream of creating a National Park was realised. Now they, even more than the mountain gorillas - need our help to survive in a rapidly changing world!

Following in the pioneering footsteps of Carl Akeley, George Schaller and John Emlen, I first went to study the rare mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes of northern Rwanda, Central Africa with the late Dian Fossey in 1970. After she made it impossible for me to continue my research at her camp I moved to study the gorillas in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in what is now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo. I have since had a lifetime working with Rwanda - especially to help them re-building after the terrible war and Genocide in 1994. In other areas of my life I studied how to help people learn - especially using the developing IT technologies. In 1999 I was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to travel the globe to research how the emerging Virtual Reality technology could be used in Education and Training. Following that I was invited to become the Honorary Consul for Rwanda in the newly created Scottish Parliament. Since then I have been following my remit to help them re Education. More recently I have been involved in projects to help the Batwa in Rwanda, who were evicted from their forest homes when Carl Akeley's dream of creating a National Park was realised. Now they, even more than the mountain gorillas - need our help to survive in a rapidly changing world!