Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), home to 43% of the remaining 1,063 endangered mountain gorillas, faces growing threats from human activities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) addressed two critical issues: (i) Preventing COVID-19 transmission among people and from people to gorillas through community and park frontline workers awareness, personal protective equipment, testing gorillas using non-invasive methods and people in close contact with gorillas, and rapid case response, ensuring no positive cases among gorillas; (ii) Tackling increased poaching caused by tourism loss and poverty by meeting urgent nutritional needs, promoting alternative livelihoods,  and supporting park patrols, which significantly reduced poaching and other illegal forest entries. This initiative was part of the IUCN Save Our Species African Wildlife program, co-funded by the European Union.