Sustaining
Health
Saving gorillas, saving ourselves
Only 740 mountain gorillas are living today in central Africa. Their longevity and survival are threatened by wars, hunters and deforestation—even by human viruses carried by forest rangers, researchers and ecotourists.
In April 2009, with $750,000 in funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, UC Davis founded the Mountain Gorilla One Health Program to save the endangered gorillas by caring not only for them, but also the people and other animals that share their forests.
In November, the gorilla program joined the new University of California Global Health Institute (launched with nearly $4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), in a center named “One Health: Water, Animals, Food and Society.”
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