Thoughts from Dr. Benard: A Gorilla Doctors LIVE Preview

By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Thursday, December 5th, 2024 in Blog.

Just one week from today, Dr. Benard and our Uganda field veterinarians – Drs. Fred, Ricky and Nelson – will be discussing all things gorilla health during Gorilla Doctors LIVE on Thursday, December 12 at 9:00AM PST (12:00PM EST). Have you registered yet? Are you getting your questions ready? REGISTER HERE Here is a little […]

Une Parole pour l’Histoire: An Afternoon with Jane Goodall in Paris

Une Parole pour l’Histoire: An Afternoon with Jane Goodall in Paris By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Monday, October 21st, 2024 in Blog.

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 […]

A World Gorilla Day Adventure: Journey of the ‘Gorilla Outfits’

A World Gorilla Day Adventure: Journey of the ‘Gorilla Outfits’ By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 in Blog.

It is our favorite day of the year – World Gorilla Day. As we love to say here at Gorilla Doctors, every day is gorilla day for us, so today we are choosing to celebrate our friends at Columbia Sportswear whose generous support of rain gear and waterproof boots does so much more than keep […]

Houston Zoo Crew Works with Gorilla Doctors

Houston Zoo Crew Works with Gorilla Doctors By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Friday, August 23rd, 2024 in Blog.

At the beginning of August, seven extraordinary teenagers from the Houston Zoo’s Zoo Crew program spent a few days with Gorilla Doctors at our regional headquarters in Musanze, Rwanda. The students spent more than six months preparing for their trip and their 12-day adventure culminated with trekking deep into Volcanoes National Park with Gorilla Doctors […]

Notes from the Forest: Checking on Mutobo Group

silverback mountain gorilla By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 in Blog.

By Dr. Adrien Emile Ntwari, Field Veterinarian, Rwanda Welcome to my first “Notes from the Forest” where we share our latest field updates on the health of endangered mountain gorillas and critically endangered Grauer’s (eastern lowland) gorillas. Where I work in Volcanoes National Park, on the Rwanda side of the Virunga Massif, we monitor the […]

A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Thursday, June 27th, 2024 in Blog.

Shared with permission from Synergy Magazine, a publication of the University of California, School of Veterinary Medicine. “Every single day that I am out in the forest with the gorillas I realize that when we save gorillas, we are also saving ourselves.” – Dr. Gaspard Nzayisenga, field veterinarian, Rwanda This understanding has guided Nzayisenga from […]

Dr. Lina’s Special Forest Encounter

Dr. Lina's Special Forest Encounter By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 in Blog.

By Dr. Lina Nturubika, field veterinarian, DR Congo A couple of weeks ago I was in the forest on my way to conduct a routine health check of Bonane group. This is a family of ten critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. I love visiting this group because it has four infants! I […]

Dr. Kirsten Goes to Rwanda

Dr. Kirsten Goes to Rwanda By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 in Blog.

An Update from our Executive Director This week I am in Rwanda and our Africa-based Gorilla Doctors team gathered at our regional headquarters in Musanze, for regional rounds. We are an international team, working in all three range countries of the eastern gorilla – Rwanda, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of Congo – and in the […]

When Gorillas ‘Rescue’ Themselves

When Gorillas 'Rescue' Themselves By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 in Blog.

On the morning of February 19, Dr. Lina hiked out from our Tshivanga field station at Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DR Congo. It was a little before 9:00AM, and she was planning a routine health check of Bonane group, a family of nine critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas led by silverback Bonane. Not far into the forest, […]

Gorilla Doctors’ Way Forward: A Letter from our Executive Director

Gorilla Doctors' Way Forward: A Letter from our Executive Director By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 in Blog.

We are at a global tipping point. We all know it. We hear about the deterioration of our planet in the news every single day. Sometimes we are so overwhelmed we come to a standstill, not knowing where to begin. This is not a criticism – even as a professional conservationist, I can fail to […]