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 Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 in Blog, Clinical Interventions, Gorilla Health.
By Gaspard Nzayisenga, senior field veterinarian Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda December 25, 2025 saw the beginnings of respiratory illness in some of the gorillas in Kwitonda group. Over the next few days, the respiratory illness spread through the group with some gorillas showing more severe clinical signs than others. On December 28, trackers reported to […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, January 15th, 2026 in Blog, Leadership.
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear friend Roger Powell, a founding and our longest-standing board member of Gorilla Doctors. Roger passed away on January 1, 2026. Roger, a lifelong conservationist and outdoor enthusiast, first became involved with our work while serving on the Board of Trustees at the […]
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, 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, 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 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 […]
