07 Jul Uganda: Dr. Gladys Kalema Zikusoka Pens Walking With Gorillas About Life As an African Wildlife Vet
Dr. Gladys Kalema Zikusoka's memoir, "Walking with Gorillas", is a testament to her unwavering dedication to wildlife conservation....
08 May Meet Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s first wildlife vet and a renowned conservationist
Countless natural disasters made worse from climate change and the degradation of our natural world feel like a steady drumbeat in the news. It’s hard not to feel discouraged, especially when we hear about the enormous amount of species that have gone extinct due to...
27 Apr Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain
Respiratory infections recorded among mountain gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park dropped from a pre-pandemic average of 5.4 outbreaks among family groups to just 1.6 per year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020....
05 Jan Podcast: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a national park in southwest Uganda that is home to nearly half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. ...
14 Dec Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health
Years before the obsession with wild-borne pathogens latching onto humans gripped the world, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka was already dealing with disease spillovers. Except, she worried about humans infecting gorillas in her native Uganda....
13 Jul For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat
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