Name: Portia Gives Ellen One of the Best Birthday Presents Ever
Uploaded: 2018-03-29T09:47:10.000Z
Duration: 5 min 2 s
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OK, I'm being told there's someone else here who

OK, I was wondering why you weren't over there

and I don't know why you're here because you can't talk,

Actually this is your birthday gift, a sexy voice.

Not just now, but what you've always cared about.

has made you the amazing person that you are today.

So I combined that and questions when we first met like,

And what would you do if you weren't a talk show host?

So I combined that with the fact that, literally guys,

for like the last two years Ellen has said to me,

So I put all that together and I got you this gift.

When people ask my wife, who is the person living or dead you

most want to interview, her answer is always Dian Fossey.

Ellen remembers reading "National Geographic" at home

as a little girl and remembers Dian on the cover

Ellen read how in 1967, Dian Fossey set up

a camp she called Karisoke in the Virunga Mountains

And at that time, Dian was alone in protecting them.

was sad to learn that Dian was murdered in 1985 in her cabin

Most of us know Dian's work from her book "Gorillas

Her story is also carried on through the work of the Dian

The Fossey Fund exists to ensure the survival

and thriving of wild gorillas in close partnership

But unfortunately, today there are only 880 mountain gorillas

Thus, the work of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

remains vitally important to ensuring their future.

"little did I know then that by setting up two small tents

was to become an internationally renowned research station,

eventually to be utilized by students and scientists

So for your birthday, Ellen, I am bringing you

and your hero Dian together, by building the Ellen DeGeneres

by giving them a permanent home in Rwanda.

Now, you will join Dian as a protector and champion

of these amazing animals, the mountain gorillas.

So it'll be a most incredible center for tourism, education,

I have also set up a foundation in your name called the Ellen

So this is the first initiative for the fund.

But you can take this and do whatever you want with it.

I've always said, when we got married, Portia's line was,

"it's good to be loved, it's profound to be understood."

is the best gift that anybody could have given me.