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By Justin Cox As many of you know, Gorilla Doctors was featured on 60 Minutes early this month. In addition to the piece they created for the show, they also produced a 360-degree virtual reality segment. If you don’t have Virtual Reality gear (which most of us surely don’t) you can watch the video on a smart phone […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, October 14th, 2013
in Archive, Press Releases.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – October 14, 2013 Kristen Bell will host “Gorilla Love,” the first ever west coast fundraising event to benefit the Gorilla Doctors on Monday, November 4, 2013 at the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA. Three hundred guests will gather for a 6-9 pm cocktail reception, silent and live auctions, and […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
in Archive, Press Releases, Rescued Gorillas.
An infant male gorilla, found alone in a cornfield in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been rescued by the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN) with critical assistance from Gorilla Doctors. Gorilla Doctors, dedicated to conserving gorillas through veterinary medicine, monitors and promotes the health of wild habituated mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
in Archive, Conservation in Action, Press Releases.
PRESS RELEASE November 13, 2011 Mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.Kampala, Uganda – The results of a 2011 census of the critically-endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park were released today by the Ugandan Wildlife Authority and confirm that at least 400 individuals live in the Park. The […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
in Archive, Press Releases.
Silverback Kongomani of Rugendo group in Virunga National Park.Airing May 10 at 8pm GMT on Animal Planet, the season finale of the UK TV series “Wildlife SOS” spotlights the efforts of the Gorilla Doctors and the Congolese Wildlife Authority to protect the critically-endangered mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
in Archive, Press Releases, Rescued Gorillas.
Grauer’s orphans in Rwanda.PRESS RELEASE July 25, 2011 Musanze, Rwanda – In a remarkable feat of collaboration between the wildlife authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda and multiple conservation organizations, six Grauer’s gorilla orphans were successfully moved this past weekend from a small temporary housing facility in Rwanda to a […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
in Archive, Press Releases, Research.
PRESS RELEASE March 29, 2011 Human Virus Linked to Deaths of Endangered Mountain Gorillas Musanze, Rwanda – For the first time, a virus that causes respiratory disease in humans has been linked to the deaths of wild mountain gorillas, says a team of researchers in a new study published online today in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
in Archive, Conservation in Action, Press Releases.
Map showing location and size of gorilla groups in the Virungas.The population of critically endangered mountain gorillas living in Africa’s Virunga Massif has grown by 26.3% to approximately 480 individuals in the past seven years according to the newly released results of the 2010 mountain gorilla census. The last mountain gorilla census of the Virunga […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, November 25th, 2010
in Archive, Press Releases, Rescued Gorillas.
Maisha and Kaboko look out the window of their new enclosure. On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, two mountain gorillas orphaned by poachers in DR Congo’s Virunga National Park in 2004 and 2007 were relocated back to Virunga after several years spent in Rwanda, the country where they were confiscated. Nine-year-old female Maisha and 6-year-old Kaboko […]
