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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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
On the afternoon of Thursday June 5, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park trackers reported that blackback mountain gorilla Karureeta of Katwe group had a wire snare around his left wrist. The snare was affecting his mobility, and he was exhibiting signs of discomfort. Despite Karureeta’s name translating to “chaos initiator” (he likes to stir up trouble […]
