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By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
in Archive, Capacity Strengthening.
By Marlene Haggblade UCD SVM Student I always forget how much I feel at home in Africa. As I got off the plane in Kigali, Rwanda I was immediately surrounded by vegetation I hadn’t seen since I was a tiny tot chasing chameleons around our backyard in Madagascar. It had been 3 years since I […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
in Archive, Blog.
By Kirsten Gilardi, DVM Co-Director, Gorilla Doctors I had the pleasure of attending Rwanda Cultural Day 2016, held Saturday, September 24 in San Francisco, California. My husband, James, and our friends Dr. Michael Wilkes (UC Davis School of Medicine) and his wife Dr. Maggie Rea, who have lived and worked in Rwanda, joined by perhaps […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
in Blog, Gorilla Health.
A female in Amahoro group was spotted with newborn twin babies late last month, but unfortunately Gorilla Doctors learned the following day that neither baby survived its first day of life. After the mother, Kalisimbi, carried both dead infants all night, she dropped one of the babies the following day and Volcanoes National Park trackers […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, August 11th, 2016
in Blog, Gorilla Health.
Gorilla Doctors veterinarians in Bwindi National Park are keeping a close eye on two gorillas from the Kyaguliro group after they suffered injuries during an altercation with an unhabituated gorilla group in the area. Rukara, the dominant silverback in the Kyagurilo group and Kabandizea, one of two blackbacks, were reported injured on July 27. Gorilla […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, July 29th, 2016
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
By Joost Philippa Last week I got a call from Dr. Eddy, our head veterinarian in the Democratic Republic of Congo: an elephant had been observed with what appeared to be a wire snare around his hind leg in the Central Sector of Virunga National Park, in the area between Mabenga and Rwindi. This is […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
in Blog, Rescued Gorillas.
Photo by Adam Kiefer By Joost Philippa An orphaned Grauer’s gorilla moved to her new home at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE) Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week. Lulingu is a 1 1/2-year-old female Grauer’s gorilla who was confiscated from poachers by the Congolese wildlife authority (ICCN) in February. […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
Note: The bottom of this post has a somewhat graphic photo of the snare and its wounds. By Joost Pilippa Last week, Dr. Eddy received a phone call that Mutangazi, a juvenile male mountain gorilla, was caught in a snare in the Mikeno sector of Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Earlier […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, June 16th, 2016
in Blog, Gorilla Health.
It is with great sadness that we announce that Dunia, a 10-year-old female Grauer’s gorilla living at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE) Center in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), died unexpectedly after a sudden onset of severe intestinal illness. Gorilla Doctors cared for Dunia for years, initially while she was based in […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, June 9th, 2016
in Blog, Partners.
Gorilla Doctors received this heart warming letter in the mail a few weeks back from a 10-year-old girl named Ayla. She had just finished raising $67.95 at her school in Montana, and she wanted to donate it to support our work. We loved her letter, and we wanted to share it with you: We reached out to Ayla and her […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, April 25th, 2016
in Blog, Leadership.
Gorilla Doctors is happy to announce our latest hire, Dr. Sophie Bosh, who will manage the health care program at the Lwiro Primate Sanctuary. Gorilla Doctors was recently asked by partners to provide leadership for health care for animals at Lwiro. As an introduction, we asked Sophie, who studied veterinary medicine at the University of […]
