By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, September 5th, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Leadership.
Today, September 5, Rwanda celebrates their 20th Kwita Izina – the baby gorilla naming ceremony and annual tribute to the country’s long committment to mountain gorilla conservation. Gorilla Doctors was honored to have Dr. Gaspard Nzayisenga, our senior field veterinarian in Rwanda be selected to name one of the infant mountain gorillas! We sat down […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, September 1st, 2025
in Blog, Partners.
September 24 is World Gorilla Day but every day is a gorilla day at Gorilla Doctors so we are celebrating the entire month of September! Our veterinarians are on call 365 days a year to provide life-saving care for ill or injured mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in the forests of Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo. Now […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, July 25th, 2025
in Press Releases, Research.
New international research conducted by a team including scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IVB CAS), Gorilla Doctors, and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, with support from the Rwanda Development Board and Uganda Wildlife Authority, reveals long-term shifts in parasite communities that may help explain rising health threats […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, July 11th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
By Dr. Fabrice Katembo Malonga, field veterinarian, DR Congo On Saturday July 5 we received a call from park rangers that an infant mountain gorilla in Mapuwa group of the Mikeno sector in Virunga National Park, DR Congo was observed with a wire snare embedded deep in her left wrist. We outfitted our medical ‘go […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
On the afternoon of Thursday June 5, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park trackers reported that blackback mountain gorilla Karureeta of Katwe group had a wire snare around his left wrist. The snare was affecting his mobility, and he was exhibiting signs of discomfort. Despite Karureeta’s name translating to “chaos initiator” (he likes to stir up trouble […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, May 29th, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Gorilla Health.
We are thrilled to announce that four adult female critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas have been successfully released into the wild in Virunga National Park! Gorilla Doctors played a significant role in this historic conservation achievement in collaboration with: GRACE, Virunga National Park, ICCN and Re:wild. It all began in 2003 when an infant Grauer’s gorilla was confiscated from […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
in Blog, Gorilla Health.
By Nelson Bukamba, field veterinarian, Uganda Last Friday as I was trekking through Bwindi on my way to administer deworming medication to silverback Kabukojo of Rushegura group, I received an urgent call from trackers. Six-year-old juvenile Bigorogoro in Mubare group was caught in a snare. Trackers said he was visibly distressed and emitting high-pitched screams […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, April 14th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
By Dr. Adrien Emile Ntwari, field veterinarian, Rwanda UPDATE: Last week Dr. Gaspard conducted a follow-up monitoring visit and found Umutuzo’s abscess wound healing as well as reduced inflammation around the wound site. She was actively feeding and appeared in overall good health as seen in this photo. >> Last Tuesday (April 8), Dr. Gaspard […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Partners.
By Dr. Jean Bosco ‘Noel’ Noheri If we are to see a thriving population of wild eastern gorillas and wildlife in general, we need strategic partners who believe that each of us has the power to create positive change, and who understand that when we work together, that change can be even more impactful. Last […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
in Blog, Leadership, One Health for All.
I recently returned from visiting with our teams in Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo. If you missed my updates, you can read them [HERE (January 28) and HERE (February 20)]. At Gorilla Doctors, our mission is to conserve wild eastern gorillas through life-saving veterinary medicine and science using a One Health approach—recognizing that the health […]
