The Gorilla Doctors

Saving a Species One Gorilla
At a Time

Since 1986 we’ve been keeping eastern gorillas healthy and in the wild. And we are just getting started. Together, let’s build a thriving future for gorillas and people.

Saving a species

Gorilla Doctors is the only organization on the planet providing life-saving veterinary care to wild eastern gorillas.
With your support, treating one gorilla at a time has contributed to one of the greatest wildlife conservation success stories in the last century.

How we're saving a species

Our Collective Impact

Over the last five years and counting

Health checks to monitor the health of mountain and Grauer’s gorillas

Clinical interventions to treat ill or injured mountain and Grauer’s gorillas

Snare rescues with a 98% survival rate

Our Patients are Wild

Every single day, rain or shine, we monitor the health of the nearly 800 human-habituated mountain and Grauer’s gorillas living in five national parks across Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

While mountain gorilla numbers are increasing, Grauer’s gorillas are critically endangered. Existing threats to our patients have intensified and novel threats are emerging.

Meet Our Patients

Mission

To conserve wild eastern gorillas through life-saving veterinary medicine and science using a One Health approach.

Vision

A world with a thriving population of wild eastern gorillas.

Give with Confidence

With thousands of ‘forest calls’ and hundreds of life-saving interventions, you can trust that every single donation you make has a tangible impact.

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Our Hospital Is The Forest

Gorilla Doctors is an international team of Rwandan, Ugandan, and Congolese veterinarians who race into the forest when a gorilla is ill, injured, or caught in a snare. We treat them in their home environment always while surrounded by our patient’s gorilla family.

Meet The Gorilla Doctors

Where We Work

East-Central Africa

Gorilla Doctors works in five national parks across Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo.

Become a Gorilla Guardian

As a Gorilla Guardian® you are part of an exclusive group of loyal champions protecting the health of eastern gorillas.

Your recurring gift helps keep Gorilla Doctors prepared with the essential supplies, equipment, and transportation for treating our gorilla patients in their forest homes.

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