18 Jan Becoming a Wildlife Doctor
For her persistent innovative leadership in developing new approaches to human-wildlife interaction at a time when the danger of zoo-tonic diseases is ring worldwide....
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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10 Jun For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, primatologists assumed great apes would be susceptible to the virus and took measures to avoid transmission to captive and wild populations....
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