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On her recent health check with Susa group in Volcanoes National Park, Dr. Jan was able to get some good shots and video footage of female Rumuvu and her twins and the new baby of Rwandarushya. Here is her report: Susa group feeding.I visited Susa group after a new baby was reported, and there were […]
Poor little orphan Ndakasi can’t catch a break. The four-year-old mountain gorilla orphan who sustained a bad concussion falling out of tree in July gave the Gorilla Doctors and Virunga National Park staff another health scare this month when she became ill with an infection of unknown origin. Read Dr. Jan’s dispatches about Ndakasi’s illness […]
This blog was written by Dr. Jan. The orphans play a caretaker the quarantine facility in Kinigi, Rwanda.In late July, after months of careful planning, the six Grauer’s gorillas being cared for at the Mountain Gorilla Quarantine Facility in Kinigi, Rwanda, went back to their home country of DR Congo. Pinga, Serafuli, Itebero, Ntabwoba, Dunia […]
Dr. Jean-Felix reaches out to Ihirwe.On August 18, the Gorilla Doctors performed a full medical examination on new mountain gorilla orphan Ihirwe to determine if she has any diseases or other health disorders. The infant had been suffering from a respiratory infection but was recovering nicely after receiving antibiotics. Ihirwe receives the anesthesia injection.Here is […]
IhirweToday Dr. Jean-Felix was able to perform a health check on the orphan and he discovered that the gorilla is a little girl! She has been given the same Ihirwe, meaning “luck” in Kinyarwanda, the native language of Rwanda. We think she was very lucky that police caught the men holding her captive! Dr. Jean-Felix […]
MGVP Caretaker Fabien Bahati and Dr. Jan Ramer with the orphan. Musanze, Rwanda – On Sunday, August 7, police in the town of Gisenyi, Rwanda, arrested a group of Congolese and Rwandan men after they were caught smuggling an infant mountain gorilla from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Rwanda. Veterinarians from the […]
Dr. Jan reports on her routine health check with Susa group in Volcanoes National Park. Wound on the top of Igisha’s right hand.Today I visited Susa group and we found them at Gasizi area. I learned that morning that silverback Igisha had been caught in a snare on his right hand yesterday and he had […]
Grauer’s orphans in Rwanda.PRESS RELEASE July 25, 2011 Musanze, Rwanda – In a remarkable feat of collaboration between the wildlife authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda and multiple conservation organizations, six Grauer’s gorilla orphans were successfully moved this past weekend from a small temporary housing facility in Rwanda to a lush […]
The call came in at 5:40pm – Ndakasi, one of the 4-year-old orphan gorillas at Senkwekwe Center in Rumangabo, was in serious condition. The network was horrible as I tried to communicate with Dr. Eddy and with Emmanuel de Merode, the Director of Virunga National Park. When the caregivers called the gorillas back into the […]
This blog was written by MGVP volunteer Matt Marinkovich, a veterinary medicine student at Cornell. Last weekend, Claire Welsh and I, both volunteers this summer with MGVP, accompanied Dr. Jan to Rumangabo, the headquarters of Virunga National Park in DR Congo, to check up on the park’s bloodhounds and the orphan mountain gorillas. We departed […]
