Fahlo The Traverse Plush - Gorilla

Each plush comes with a real gorilla to track

Track a real gorilla and hug this one! Created in partnership with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, each gorilla plush unlocks an interactive tracking map and supports conservation efforts. Go ahead, beat your chest.

Details

One small plush. One big mission

• 10% of profits donated to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and their work researching and protecting gorillas. The Traverse Plush helps further this mission with every purchase, tracking critically endangered mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

• Stuffing made from recycled water bottles

• Huggable for all ages

• Size: 12"

How It Works

• Tracked manually by researchers in the field
• This animal’s safety guarded with the Fahlo Protection Ping™

Every Fahlo tracking experience includes the Fahlo Protection Ping™. This indicates each animal’s unique path may be live, delayed, or historical based on required safety protocol in accordance with our nonprofit partners.

While the experience of following an animal’s journey remains the same for you, we work behind the scenes with our partners to ensure this experience is presented in a way that keeps the animals safe, one step or splash at a time.

FAQ's

Why are gorillas tracked?

• Per our partners at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, the gorillas are tracked to ensure their ongoing protection and  to better understand their behavior, ecology, genetic diversity, and habitat requirements—all of which is essential to developing effective conservation strategies. Their holistic approach is founded on four key pillars: daily gorilla protection, scientific research, training conservationists in Africa, and helping local communities to ensure the future of gorilla conservation for generations to come. The Fossey Fund protects two of the four gorilla subspecies: the critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the endangered mountain gorillas in the Virunga mountains of Rwanda. 

How are gorillas tracked?

• The gorillas are not physically tagged, so tracking consists of teams of trackers following the trail of the gorilla groups they monitor until they find them each day and then they use GPS devices to gather and record information. 
  

Does tracking harm the gorillas?

• Not at all! The gorillas have become indifferent to the presence of the trackers and to ensure their ongoing health, trackers spend just enough time with the gorillas to ensure they are all present and healthy.