By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, September 25th, 2014
in Blog.
Mentoring the next generation of wildlife health experts in Africa is a top priority for Gorilla Doctors. Thanks to a generous donation by attendees of our inaugural Gorilla Love fundraising event in Beverly Hills last November, we have been able to host two veterinary interns at our Regional Headquarters in Musanze, Rwanda. Both young men […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014
in Blog.
Dr. Eddy in the Virunga National Park plane as they transfer a Grauer’s gorilla to the GRACE sanctuary. For Dr. Eddy Kambale, Gorilla Doctors’ Head Veterinarian in the Democratic Republic of Congo, no two work days are ever the same. One day Dr. Eddy may find himself caring for the orphaned gorillas at the Senkwekwe […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, August 15th, 2014
in Blog.
Dr. Julius Nziza, Gorilla Doctors Research Project Coordinator for PREDICT Rwanda, is wrapping up an interesting six-week stint in Chicago where he’s studied the genetics of bat species in Rwanda and curating techniques at The Field Museum of Natural History. Dr. Julius is working with Dr. Bruce Patterson, the MacArthur Curator of Mammals, Dr. Bill […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, April 7th, 2014
in Blog.
by Dr. Jean Felix Kinani Twenty years after the genocide, Rwandans have shown the world that our wounds can heal even though we will never forget the past. Through us, the world sees that a country can recover from extreme violence spurned by division and hate. Rwanda suffered the systematic extermination of more than a […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, March 31st, 2014
in Blog.
Gorilla Doctors PREDICT Field Veterinarian in Rwanda, Dr. Olivier Nsengimana, has been named as one of 22 finalists for the 2014 ROLEX Enterprise Awards. The 22 finalists hail from 13 different countries and are in the running to win vital funding for their particular projects, as well as international acclaim as a 2014 ROLEX Young Laureate. […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
in Blog.
Long-time Gorilla Doctors Board Member and former Director of the Morris Animal Foundation (which founded MGVP) Dr. Rob Hilsenroth facilitated a team-building retreat for the Gorilla Doctors staff at Uganda’s Volcanoes Safaris Mount Gahinga Lodge this month. We were fortunate to have Dr. Rob write about his experience with the staff and the remarkable changes […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, October 28th, 2013
in Blog.
Abaxis Europe has supplied Gorilla Doctors with numerous pieces of important laboratory equipment over the last three years, such as iStat machines and VS2 chemistry analyzers. This month, Abaxis representative and long time friend of Gorilla Doctors Bärbel Köhler traveled to our Rwanda headquarters to instruct the veterinarians on Abaxis’ latest donation: a new VetScan […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Sunday, June 16th, 2013
in Blog.
Jessica Burbridge For Clementine Usanase, mountain gorilla conservation work runs in the family. Daughter of longtime Volcanoes National Park’s Veterinary Warden Elisabeth Nyirakaragire, Clementine grew up with an appreciation for this critically endangered species and a keen understanding of the importance of their survival. In October 2012, Clementine joined the Gorilla Doctors team as the […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Sunday, June 9th, 2013
in Blog.
By Jessica Burbridge Gorilla Doctors Head Field Veterinarian in DRC, Dr. Eddy Kambale, recently conducted an IMPACT workshop for 14 ICCN Kahuzi Biega National Park rangers and trackers at the Tshivanga station. The IMPACT system (Internet Management Program to Support Conservation Technology) is an integral part of the Gorilla Doctors health monitoring. Dr. Eddy (far […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, February 28th, 2013
in Blog.
The third week of February, Dr. Methode Bahizi, Gorilla Doctors Regional Laboratory Veterinarian, flew to Cameroon to attend the annual Pan African Sanctuary Alliance conference at the Limbe Wildlife Center. Dr. Methode joined some 30 captive primate experts from the US, UK and around Africa. The Limbe Wildlife Center is home to a variety of critically endangered […]
