By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, November 14th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
Snare Rescue #1: Virunga National Park By Dr. Eddy, Kambale Syaluha, head veterinarian, DR Congo On Monday October 13 around 10:00AM, Gorilla Doctors received a call from the Virunga National Park monitoring team reporting that a juvenile mountain gorilla in Bageni group was observed by trackers with a wire snare on its left foot. Dr. […]
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 Monday, April 14th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
By Dr. Adrien Emile Ntwari, field veterinarian, Rwanda UPDATE: Last week Dr. Gaspard conducted a follow-up monitoring visit and found Umutuzo’s abscess wound healing as well as reduced inflammation around the wound site. She was actively feeding and appeared in overall good health as seen in this photo. >> Last Tuesday (April 8), Dr. Gaspard […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, January 24th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
By Gaspard Nzayisenga, senior field veternarian, Rwanda At Gorilla Doctors we are on call 24/7, ready to respond to a gorilla health emergency, rain or shine. On this particular Sunday, January 19, we received an urgent call from Volcanoes National Park trackers who discovered an infant mountain gorilla caught in a snare. Dr. Adrien and […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, August 23rd, 2024
in Blog, Partners.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, June 27th, 2024
in Blog, Leadership.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, July 7th, 2023
in Blog, One Health for All.
Notes from the Field: By Dr. Gaspard Nzayisenga, field veterinarian, Rwanda For their effective conservation, mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda are monitored on a daily basis by park trackers and rangers as well as researchers and Gorilla Doctors’ veterinarians. Tourists from around the world also visit gorillas daily. Gorillas are susceptible to human […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
Monday, May 8 started out as a quiet day at the Gorilla Doctors regional headquarters in Musanze, Rwanda. Drs. Gaspard and Adrien worked at their desks catching up on field reports and Dr. Julius was off-site at a meeting. Then the call came in… When the Call Comes Umwari, an adult female mountain gorilla in […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, January 16th, 2023
in Blog, Gorilla Health.
By Dr. Gaspard Nzayisenga, field veterinarian, Rwanda During my health monitoring of Muhoza group on January 5, I was surprised to find Inkundwa, a lone silverback mountain gorilla, interacting with Muhoza group (led by silverback Muhoza). Apparently, there had been a fight early that morning before our arrival, which resulted in a couple of minor […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, August 28th, 2020
in Blog, Leadership.
This month we launched Meet the Gorilla Doctors: Guardians of Gorilla Health to introduce you in more detail than ever before to our dedicated team of Ugandan, Congolese and Rwandan veterinarians working to protect the health of endangered mountain gorillas and critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas. Their internationally-recognized work in conservation medicine, and infectious disease research […]
