ITV News Central's Victoria Davies has made a short video about her experience in Cameroon.
Vets from the Midlands travelled 3,000 miles to save an orphaned gorilla whose arm was shot by poachers.
Here is Victoria's account of her trip to Cameroon.
Vets from the Midlands have travelled 3,000 miles to Cameroon to save an orphaned gorilla whose arm was shot by poachers. They are using pioneering surgery to help save him.
In part two, Shufai's future looked uncertain.
Our reporter Victoria Davies travelled to Africa with the vets and has the concluding part of the story.
Shufai the eight-year-old gorilla was shot in the arm by poachers leaving him deformed and in pain. But three vets from the Midlands have travelled to Cameroon to help him by using pioneering surgery. Our reporter Victoria Davies has this report from Africa.
A Midlands woman has swapped her life in Birmingham for the rainforests of Africa.
Rachel Hogan moved to Cameroon 12 years ago to help save orphaned chimpanzees and gorillas, whose parents were killed for bushmeat.
As the illegal trade continues, scientists warn the great apes of Africa are now on the brink of extinction.
ITV News Central reporter, Victoria Davies, travelled to Cameroon to find out more.
Twycross Zoo have announced that the gorilla born in early January is a boy.
Mum, Ozala, gave birth on 3rd January 2013. Ozala, was, at first, very protective of her newborn and so staff were unable to get close to the infant.
“Ozala was so protective of her newborn infant that she held it very close and it is only now that the infant is bigger, and Ozala has become more relaxed, that we have been able to see the infant closely enough to determine its gender."
Charlotte Macdonald, Curator of Living Collections
The western lowland gorilla is a critically endangered species.
From millions of years old to a rather newer addition to the world in the form of a baby gorilla born at Twycross zoo.
And let's just say when mum Ozala went into labour, it was a pretty hairy moment.
We're pleased to say mother and baby are doing fine. A rather excited Rajiv Popat went along to have a look.
Twycross Zoo has a new arrival, a western lowland baby gorilla.
It weighed around four pounds and mother and baby are doing well.
There are fewer than 200,000 western lowland gorillas in the wild.
Twycross Zoo has today announced the safe birth of a healthy baby western lowland gorilla a species considered critically endangered.
The baby gorilla, which is yet to be named, is said to be doing very well and the mother, Ozala, remains healthy after a stress-fress birth.
Twycross Zoo has announced the birth of a healthy baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species. The baby gorilla was born on Thursday 3rd January.
Twycross Zoo has a new arrival, a western lowland baby gorilla.
It weighed around four pounds and mother and baby are doing well.
There are fewer than 200,000 western lowland gorillas in the wild.
The species face a number of threats including hunting for their meat and destruction of their habitat.
The newborn hasn't been named yet, zoo keepers have been unable to determine the sex of the baby because mother Ozala holds her close to her body and is very protective.
