Critter News

DECEMBER 4, 2008

On Monday, December 2, 2008, the Year of the Gorilla was launched by the UN and Monaco's Prince Albert. Tags: united nations gorillas. Officials for the U.N.-backed Half a million euros? That's all they think they can raise? That's setting your sights pretty low. Reminds me of Dr. Evil asking for One.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Ken also had a very dry sense of humour … and we definitively enjoyed his wry take on life… Despite being only in his twenties [in 2008], Ken seemed to have been birding for at least forty years, so good were his birding skills.”. The smaller en route sites such as Mukura and Gishwati forests, Rugezi marsh, Lake Kivu, etc.,

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti. In May 2008, 41 of the 43 rays at the Calgary Zoo’s 37,000-litre touch-tank died. Zoo patrons were shocked to see Barika, a western lowland gorilla, holding a knife and apparently pointing it at another primate in the enclosure.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

Two of my favorite issues are chimpanzees threatened in labs and mountain gorillas threatened in the Congo. This conclusion is drawn by Cleve Hicks, based on observations made during his 2007-2008 survey of towns, villages and forests in the Buta-Aketi region of the DRC. Because they are in serious trouble there too.

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Congo Apes Endangered Species 2008 100

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Mountain Gorillas are best observed in Uganda or Rwanda And to avoid – currently, one needs to be very cautious if planning a trip to Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (the People’s Republic or Congo-Brazzaville is however safe), Burundi, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and a few other unstable nations.

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JULY 9, 2014

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Tourism money is vital to the survival of the world’s Mountain Gorillas, but at the same time that tourism has to be carefully managed to not harm them either, either by disturbance or through human carried diseases.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 169