By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, September 24th, 2012
in Blog.
PRESS RELEASE September 24, 2012 Concern Mounts for Grauer’s Gorillas in DRC Following the Rescue of Two Poached Infants IsangiMusanze, Rwanda – Gorilla Doctors and the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN) are increasingly concerned about the survival of Grauer’s gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following the rescue of two poached infant gorillas in separate […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, September 20th, 2012
in Blog.
By Molly Feltner Heavily armed Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers prepare to enter the forest.It had already been a long, frustrating day in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. After many hours in the thickly vegetated forest, and in heavy rain, Drs. Dawn, Eddy, and Martin and a ranger team could not get close enough to safely dart two […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Saturday, August 11th, 2012
in Blog.
Kaboko at the Senkwekwe CenterBy Molly Feltner, Communications Officer Gorilla Doctors is sorry to report some very sad news that couldn’t be shared right away because of security concerns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At approximately 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 25, Kaboko, the world’s only captive male mountain gorilla, passed away at […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, July 30th, 2012
in Blog.
You could say that the mountain gorillas themselves are the best fundraisers for their conservation. Many tourists, after seeing mountain gorillas in the wild for the first time, have become ardent supporters of conservation projects in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. That’s definitely the case for Raemonde Bezenar, one of our biggest […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, April 19th, 2012
in Uncategorized.
By Dr. Noel From July 23 to 27, 2011, all Gorilla Doctors veterinarians were involved in the huge and exciting event of moving the six Grauer’s gorillas that had been in the Gorilla Doctors care for years from out interim orphan quarantine facility in Kinigi, Rwanda to the GRACE sanctuary in DRC. However, only two […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
in Uncategorized.
NdakasiBy Dr. Eddy On April 13, Dr. Martin and I went to the Senkwekwe Centre at Virunga National Park headquarters for the orphans’ quarterly de-worming. Kaboko has had recurrent diarrhea, so Gorilla Doctors has decided to increase the number of de-worming (medicine used to treat internal parasites) treatments to four times per year. The use […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, January 30th, 2012
in Uncategorized.
Ihirwe with Caretaker Innocent.Approaching the age of 2, orphan Ihirwe is quite a rambunctious little gorilla and grows bolder by the day. People passing by the MGVP’s gorilla quarantine facility in Kinigi even at a distance might glimpse Ihirwe scrambling in tree branches high above the ground. It’s amazing to think that a baby could […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, October 10th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
Ranger Christian Shamavu and Dr. Jan Ramer with the orphan.By Molly Feltner, MGVP Communications Officer On the evening of October 6, Emmanuel de Merode, the Chief Park Warden of Virunga National Park, called Dr. Jan and reported that his rangers had successfully rescued a baby Grauer’s gorilla from poachers and were bringing the infant to […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, August 26th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
