By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, October 3rd, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Leadership.
By Dr. Kirsten Gilardi, Executive Director It has taken me a couple days to gather my thoughts… I do not remember not knowing about Jane. Photographs in National Geographic and television documentaries of her with Gombe Stream chimpanzees fascinated me as a child. When I grew up, I wanted to be Jane Goodall (and oh […]
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 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 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 Monday, October 21st, 2024
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Leadership.
It doesn’t get much better than autumn in Paris unless you add Dr. Jane Goodall giving a historic speech at UNESCO World Headquarters, which is exactly what happened this past Saturday, October 19, 2024. It just worked out that one of our team was working in Paris when Dr. Goodall’s speech was announced. And thanks […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Leadership.
Many of you are probably aware of the Reddit challenge supporting gorilla adoptions on the r/wallstreetbets group that went viral last week. It is an amazing testament to the positive good that can happen through technology and social platforms. Whenever a great ape conservation organization receives this level of attention and fundraising, it increases awareness […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
in Blog, Conservation in Action.
“On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed 3 March – the day of signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973 – as UN World Wildlife Day to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, February 1st, 2021
in Blog, Clinical Interventions, Conservation in Action.
Have you ever wondered how we provide veterinary care when our patients are wild and our hospital is the forest? In this post we take you step-by-step through a real intervention from 2019 when Dr. Fred, a true guardian of gorilla health, trekked deep into the forest to rescue a mountain gorilla from a snare […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, September 14th, 2020
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Gorilla Health.
Ruterana, a female mountain gorilla in Rushegura group, who just gave birth on August 29th, makes a great case for the importance of treating individual gorillas for the good of the entire species. Gorilla Doctors first started monitoring and treating Ruterana in 2012 for a heavy parasite burden that was impacting her health. More recently, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, August 3rd, 2020
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Leadership.
“The mountain gorillas will be extinct by 2000. We need a veterinarian on site.” According to mountain gorilla lore, Dian Fossey said this to Ruth Morris Keesling at the international symposium, ‘What We Can Learn about Humankind from Apes,’ held in California in May 1981. The genesis of Gorilla Doctors began with those six words […]
