By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
in Blog, Clinical Interventions, Conservation in Action, Gorilla Health.
By Dr. Fred Nizeyimana, senior field veterinarian, Uganda On January 19, I received a call from Mgahinga Gorilla National Park trackers that adult female mountain gorilla, Tulambule, in Nyakagezi group, had diarrhea and appeared slightly emaciated. As I was working from the Buhoma sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a roughly five-hour drive away, I […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, December 19th, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Leadership.
Recently, Dr. Adrien Emile Ntwari, one of our field veterinarians in Rwanda, graduated from a two-year, capacity-building training program called “Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders” (EWCL). Following his graduation ceremony in Washington, D.C., we asked Dr. Adrien to reflect on his experience and how he will use what he learned at Gorilla Doctors. What is the […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
in Blog, Clinical Interventions.
By Dr. Adrien Emile Ntwari, field veterinarian, Rwanda On Saturday November 15, we received an emergency call from Volcanoes National Park rangers – Umusingi, a five-year-old juvenile male from the Igisha family was caught in a rope snare. Umusingi and other gorillas from his family chewed through the rope tethering him to the snare but […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, October 3rd, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Leadership.
By Dr. Kirsten Gilardi, Executive Director It has taken me a couple days to gather my thoughts… I do not remember not knowing about Jane. Photographs in National Geographic and television documentaries of her with Gombe Stream chimpanzees fascinated me as a child. When I grew up, I wanted to be Jane Goodall (and oh […]
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 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 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 Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
in Blog, Conservation in Action, Partners.
By Dr. Jean Bosco ‘Noel’ Noheri If we are to see a thriving population of wild eastern gorillas and wildlife in general, we need strategic partners who believe that each of us has the power to create positive change, and who understand that when we work together, that change can be even more impactful. Last […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
in Blog, Leadership, One Health for All.
I recently returned from visiting with our teams in Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo. If you missed my updates, you can read them [HERE (January 28) and HERE (February 20)]. At Gorilla Doctors, our mission is to conserve wild eastern gorillas through life-saving veterinary medicine and science using a One Health approach—recognizing that the health […]
