By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
in Blog.
To celebrate WORLD GORILLA DAY, our U.S., Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo teams gathered on Zoom® to have some fun coming up with our dream gorilla names! Turns out we are a pretty positive group of gorilla lovers! Especially Drs. Fabrice and Cedric who landed on the same name…Vutseme, meaning ‘Happiness’ or ‘Joyful’. We were […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
in Blog, One Health for All, Research.
We are excited to announce the launch of a new five-year research project led by the Uganda Virus Research Institute in partnership with an international consortium that includes our Gorilla Doctors team. Using our One Health approach, this project, generously funded by the Wellcome Trust, will investigate dengue and Zika viruses to help us better […]
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, September 1st, 2025
in Blog, Partners.
September 24 is World Gorilla Day but every day is a gorilla day at Gorilla Doctors so we are celebrating the entire month of September! Our veterinarians are on call 365 days a year to provide life-saving care for ill or injured mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in the forests of Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo. Now […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, July 25th, 2025
in Press Releases, Research.
New international research conducted by a team including scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IVB CAS), Gorilla Doctors, and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, with support from the Rwanda Development Board and Uganda Wildlife Authority, reveals long-term shifts in parasite communities that may help explain rising health threats […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, July 11th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
By Dr. Fabrice Katembo Malonga, field veterinarian, DR Congo On Saturday July 5 we received a call from park rangers that an infant mountain gorilla in Mapuwa group of the Mikeno sector in Virunga National Park, DR Congo was observed with a wire snare embedded deep in her left wrist. We outfitted our medical ‘go […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, May 29th, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Gorilla Health.
We are thrilled to announce that four adult female critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas have been successfully released into the wild in Virunga National Park! Gorilla Doctors played a significant role in this historic conservation achievement in collaboration with: GRACE, Virunga National Park, ICCN and Re:wild. It all began in 2003 when an infant Grauer’s gorilla was confiscated from […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
in Blog, Gorilla Health.
By Nelson Bukamba, field veterinarian, Uganda Last Friday as I was trekking through Bwindi on my way to administer deworming medication to silverback Kabukojo of Rushegura group, I received an urgent call from trackers. Six-year-old juvenile Bigorogoro in Mubare group was caught in a snare. Trackers said he was visibly distressed and emitting high-pitched screams […]
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 Thursday, December 5th, 2024
in Blog, Leadership, One Health for All.
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 […]
