Capacity Building and continuous professional development training
OHAC- Gorilla Health contributes to develop and improve measures to control and/or eradicate livestock and wildlife animal diseases in the Country. Ensured planning and implementation of conservation policy control measures and eradication procedures for outbreak of infectious, contagious wildlife animal diseases and provide data with high quality samples within the One Health framework. We contribute and participated in field studies, investigations, necropsies and surveillance projects related to wildlife animal in protected areas
With the One Health Approach for Conservation (OHAC) m Gorilla Health support, our Veterinary interventions could account for up to 60 per cent of the difference in growth rates between habituated versus unhabituated gorillas, with the remaining difference likely arising from greater protection against poachers. Our team various countries in East and Central Africa advising others on setting up programs similar to the ones he devised in the Virunga massif. OHAC- Gorilla health experts travel to various universities in the Great Lakes Region and train the next generation of conservation scientists.
We maintained a database on wildlife major disease events in the country and reported annually wildlife diseases occurrence. We Contribute to development and improvements of measures to control and/or eradicate livestock and wildlife animal diseases in the Country. Ensure planning and implementation of conservation policy control measures and eradication procedures for outbreak of infectious and contagious wildlife animal diseases within the One Health framework strongly supported by the United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP). We contributed, participated and trained worldwide veterinarians and biologists in field studies, investigations, necropsies and surveillance projects related to wildlife in the Virunga Massif, The Nyungwe National Park, the Akagera National, the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and different other East Africa protected areas.
We provide lectures on Natural Resources, Ecotourism, Epidemiology and the One Health concept and wildlife diseases in different Universities in Rwanda (University of Rwanda and Conservation Colleges (KCCEM) and in Senegal (Master program). Along the way, a collaborative team spirit with different partners, we joined the effort to the Employer health program around National Parks with the Ministries of Health.
