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By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
in Blog.
Dr. Eddy Kambale On Monday afternoon, June 12 I received a phone call from the ICCN Chief warden Innocent reporting that the ranger team based at the GIKERI Patrol Post had called him about an infant gorilla caught in a snare. They believed the baby was from an unhabituated group, as there was no known […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, September 19th, 2016
in Blog.
Visit the Gorilla Doctors at our table at the Wildlife Conservation Expo in San Francisco on October 8! Co-Director Kirsten Gilardi will be there to disseminate information about Gorilla Doctors, with lots of swag in tow for purchase. If you’re at the Expo, stop by and say hi! From the Wildlife Conservation Network website, here […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, July 29th, 2016
in Blog.
By Joost Philippa Last week I got a call from Dr. Eddy, our head veterinarian in the Democratic Republic of Congo: an elephant had been observed with what appeared to be a wire snare around his hind leg in the Central Sector of Virunga National Park, in the area between Mabenga and Rwindi. This is […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
in Blog.
Note: The bottom of this post has a somewhat graphic photo of the snare and its wounds. By Joost Pilippa Last week, Dr. Eddy received a phone call that Mutangazi, a juvenile male mountain gorilla, was caught in a snare in the Mikeno sector of Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Earlier […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, February 18th, 2016
in Blog.
By Dr. Joost Philippa The Gorilla Doctors team doesn’t just take care of gorillas; we occasionally work with the national parks to intervene on behalf of other wildlife that exit the parks or are injured due to a human-caused issue. Recently, Volcanoes National Park requested the veterinary assistance of Gorilla Doctors for just such a […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, December 4th, 2015
in Blog.
Itorero, a juvenile gorilla in Volcanoes National Park’s Musilikale group, was freed from a poacher’s snare in a veterinary intervention by Gorilla Doctors, with support from Fossey Fund Karisoke trackers on November 20th. Trackers reported the young gorilla was seen with a rope snare wrapped around his right wrist on the afternoon of the 19th. […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, November 12th, 2015
in Uncategorized.
by Dr. Eddy Kambale Pungwe, a group of 18 Grauer’s gorillas in Kahuzi Biega National Park, has been in the process of being habituated to human presence for tourism and research for about two years now. Drs. Eddy and Martin have been visiting the group regularly to assess the group members health, but last month, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, October 26th, 2015
in Blog.
Virunga National Park trackers reported an infant mountain gorilla in Lulengo group named Bahoze was caught in a rope snare on Thursday evening, October 1. The park staff observed the infant’s mother, Maganya, trying to remove the snare, but inadvertently tightening the rope. Gorilla Doctors director Dr. Mike Cranfield crossed the border from Rwanda into Goma, DRC after […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
in Blog.
On Monday, August 25, the Gorilla Doctors team received a call from Virunga National Park warden Innocent Mburanumwe notifying our veterinarians that a baby mountain gorilla named Kidumu, the infant of adult female Jicho, was caught in a snare. The park rangers had spotted the snare that morning and was able to cut it free […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, August 7th, 2014
in Blog.
Trackers from the Rwanda Development Board contacted Gorilla Doctors on August 5 to report that Zirikana, a 7-year-old male mountain gorilla in Umubano group had become caught in a wire snare. This was the second time this poor guy had been caught in a snare (Gorilla Doctors freed Zirikana from a snare in January 2011 when […]
