By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, December 2nd, 2022
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
UPDATE: December 12, 2022 – We are really sad to report that this infant chimpanzee passed away after her arrival at Lwiro. Veterinarians there suspect that she may have had some liver disease, but they are awaiting lab results for final confirmation. Once they announce detailed results we will share another update. On December 1, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, April 8th, 2019
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
For the third time in two months, Gorilla Doctors Eddy Kambale, in partnership with Dr. Kizito Musubao, an ICCN veterinarian from Kahuzi-Biega National Park, was called upon to remove a snare from a sub-adult bull elephant inside Virunga National Park, DR Congo. Below is Dr. Eddy’s field report of the intervention and subsequent treatment. Elephant […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
As part of a multi-stakeholder Conservation Action Plan (CAP) funded by the Arcus Foundation and led by the Jane Goodall Institute, Gorilla Doctors contributes to the health monitoring of great apes in protected areas and sanctuaries across all areas where the CAP has been implemented. This can sometimes encompass caring for primates confiscated from the […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
While our primary work is saving gorillas, central to our mission is a ‘One Health’ approach – understanding that the health of people, wildlife and ecosystems are inextricably linked – so when the security team from the Virunga National Park in DR Congo contacted us about an adult male elephant with a snare, our veterinary […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, November 8th, 2018
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Other Wildlife Stories, Press Releases.
By Kat Kerlin In 2018, the southern resident killer whale population in the Pacific Northwest’s Salish Sea was at its lowest ever. The world watched in September as an orca named Scarlet, or J50, wasted away and died, leaving just 74 of her kind left. Some wondered if this was “What extinction looks like.” Meanwhile, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, April 2nd, 2018
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
It’s hard to predict an average day in the life of a Gorilla Doctors veterinarian. One day could be full of office work; the next could be spent trekking through national parks in pouring rain to track down an injured or ill wild gorilla. As unpredictable as the work can be, our teams are always […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
By Drs. Gaspard, Methode, Noel, & Mike On November 15, 2016, Gorilla Doctors was informed of a wild golden jackal found caught in a wire snare at the edge of Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. A veterinary intervention to release the animal was planned the same morning. The team arrived at 10:33AM and found the ensnared […]
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 Friday, April 1st, 2016
in Blog, Other Wildlife Stories.
By Joost Philippa Gorilla Doctors provides veterinary support to the primate sanctuary (CRPL) in Lwiro, DRC. On a recent visit, I noticed that one of the baboons, Shumbi, had a swelling below his eye, along with some discharge. That could be a sign of a tooth abscess. Upon further observation, I noticed that his teeth […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Other Wildlife Stories.
By Dr. Kirsten Gilardi Gorilla Doctors Co-Director In the transboundary Salish Sea that stretches from Washington State in the United states into British Columbia in Canada, there are 84 killer whales that live in close proximity to almost 7 million people. Killer whales (Orcinus orca) range worldwide, but this particular population, called southern resident killer whales, […]
