Endangered gorillas reintroduced into the wild

The four female gorillas released into the wild. Photo credit: GRACE

IB Assistant Professor Tierra Smiley-Evans, Chief Veterinary and Scientific Officer for Gorilla Doctors, recently was part of a team that reintroduced four female critically endangered Grauer's gorillas from their sanctuary back into the wild in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read the full story here. This was the first ever successful reintroduction of an eastern gorilla into the wild.