Editing Sigourney Weaver (section)

== Other ventures ==
[[File:Reagan Contact Sheet C27275 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Weaver with [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia]] in 1985|200x200px]]After making ''[[Gorillas in the Mist]]'', Weaver became a supporter of the [[Digit Fund|Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund]], and later became its honorary chairperson.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Dian Fossey&nbsp;– Info about the Life of Dian Fossey&nbsp;– DFGFI |url=http://www.gorillafund.org/dian_fossey/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612232428/http://gorillafund.org/dian_fossey/ |archive-date=June 12, 2010 |access-date=July 12, 2010 |publisher=Gorillafund.org}}</ref> She was honored by the [[Explorers Club]] for her work and is considered to be an [[environmentalist]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Center for Health and the Global Environment |url=http://chge.med.harvard.edu/events/#NYC_Dinner |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050723084045/http://chge.med.harvard.edu/events/#NYC_Dinner |archive-date=July 23, 2005 |access-date=July 12, 2010 |publisher=Chge.med.harvard.edu}}</ref> 

In October 2006, Weaver gave a news conference at the start of a [[United Nations General Assembly]] policy deliberation where she outlined the threat to ocean habitats posed by [[Bottom trawling|deep-sea trawling]], an industrial method for catching fish.<ref>{{cite web |title=Press Conference on High Seas Fishing Practices |url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2006/061003_UNEP.doc.htm |website=un.org |publisher=UN}}</ref>

On April 8, 2008, in the [[Rainbow Room]], Weaver hosted the annual gala of the [[Trickle Up]] Program, a non-profit organization focusing on those (mainly women and disabled people) in extreme poverty.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sigourney Weaver's Charity Work, Events and Causes at Look To The Stars |url=https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/1386-sigourney-weaver |access-date=November 3, 2012 |publisher=Looktothestars.org}}</ref>