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By Nigel Nassar, New Vision, 22nd June 2008 

HER inspiration is not rooted in big names, but a pet. This pet, a cat, did not even have a name. Pussycat is all it went by. But its meek disposition and tenderness infused love into people around it. Young Gladys Kalema was one such of the pet’s biggest fans.

Growing up in Kampala as the youngest of six children, Kalema fell in love with the pet. And in a blink of an eye, she had made friends with all the pets at their home — and given them names too — Pillie the cat, Tina the dog, name it.

Twelve students and two professors will spend three weeks in a remote Ugandan jungle as part of an interdisciplinary extended study course that emphasizes hands-on learning and research involving rare mountain gorillas. The students also will be working with the Ugandan Wildlife Authority on wildlife management issues, as well as with Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), a nonprofit organization addressing community health concerns.

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has just learned that former AWF Charlotte Conservation Fellow Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has received a Conservation-In-Action Award from the Zoological Society of San Diego.

For the first time in the history of the Zoological Society of San Diego, two new categories for the annual Zoological Society's Conservation Medal, the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Conservation-In-Action Award, will also include a monetary award to assist with the conservation work being done by the recipients. 

Voice of America reporter Peterson Ssendi in Kampala profiles wildlife veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, an Ashoka Fellow and the work of her group, “Conservation Through Public Health.”