Our Wild World

Where wildlife, people, and livestock intersect a downturn in any one invariably affects the survival of the others. We know that humans and gorillas have much in common, and that human diseases such as TB and scabies do infect and kill gorillas. In 2002, Dr. Gladys Kelema-Zikusokoa founded Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH.org). CTPH is a grassroots NGO that promotes the connections between conservation and public health by improving primary health care to both people and animals in rural and urban areas in Uganda, with a vision toward reduced outbreaks and transmission of disease where people, wildlife and livestock intersect. With an innovative methodology focusing on the interdependence of wildlife and human health, CTPH utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach between governmental and non-governmental agencies, wildlife authorities and the communities themselves, whom also depend upon the health of their families, livestock and the gorillas.