By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, August 22nd, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, August 8th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
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 […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
Lubutu the day of his confiscation.By Molly Feltner, MGVP Communications Officer In late March we received word that another male Grauer’s gorilla was confiscated in Lubutu, DR Congo, by the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN). Maiko National Park Chief Park Warden Paulin Ngobobo has been working on this confiscation and breaking up the poacher network in […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
Dr. Jan examines Ndakasi’s hand.This blog was written by Dr. Jan. The Gorilla Doctors and Virunga National Park staff have been working slowly but surely to integrate the only 4 captive mountain gorillas on earth into a family unit. As a family, the gorillas have a much better chance of surviving in wild should they […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
in Uncategorized.
Producer Jason Giberti, Dr. Jan, Dr. Eddy, and Cameraman/Diretcor Jim Incledon By Molly Feltner, MGVP Communications Officer On March 11, a film crew from the Animal Planet TV series Wildlife SOS arrived in DR Congo to document the work of the Gorilla Doctors and Virunga National Park rangers for 9 days. Host Simon Cowell (no, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, March 21st, 2011
in Uncategorized.
By Molly Feltner, MGVP Communications Officer On March 12, Gorilla Doctors Jan, Eddy, and Jacques and MGVP and Virunga National Park caretakers renewed their work to integrate mountain gorilla orphans Maisha, Kaboko, Ndeze, and Ndakasi into a family. Up until recent weeks the two young gorillas Ndeze and Ndakasi and the two older gorillas, Maisha […]
