Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service

Uganda's first wildlife vet, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, works saving the country's endangered mountain gorillas, whose habitat is being eroded by climate change. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM She is the founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health, an NGO that promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people, gorillas and other wildlife to co-exist, while improving their health. After three decades of fieldwork, she has helped increase the number of mountain gorillas from 300 to about 500, which was enough to downgrade them from critically endangered to endangered. Dr Kalema-Zikusoka is on the BBC 100 Women list this year. 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Climate change and its impact on the local community 01:53 How Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka monitors the gorillas’ health 02:22 Women in conservation 02:57 Improvements in numbers of gorillas at Bwindi impenetrable forest The BBC 100 Women team has a mission to address the under-representation of women in media. If you are interested in their content check out these playlists: "In conversation" with inspiring women 👉🏽    • Exclusive interviews, extraordinary storie...   Docs with a gender viewpoint 👉🏽    • Documentaries that start conversations | B...   More videos with a gender perspective 👉🏽    • BBC 100 Women   Video produced and edited by Rebecca Thorn Filmed by Godfrey Badebye ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Twitter 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Facebook 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #uganda #climatechange #gorillas