Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

Mai Mai rebels are described as community-based militia groups frequently involved in banditry. Tags: virunga war congo gorillas endangered species. Protecting mountain gorillas in the Congo is dangerous work. Just last week, a 33-year-old ranger was killed by Mai Mai rebels. Here is a brief Youtube video of him.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Lanthier doesn't hide his contempt for animal rights groups who lash out, without considering the role zoos play in conservation. Tags: zoos canada seals polar bear endangered species. They are people with opinions, but their credentials don't exist -- they're opinionated, but that's it," he said.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Over the past couple of decades, at least two paramilitary groups in the Central African Republic have operated with government approval, as reported recently in an article on "armed environmentalism" in The Ecologist, a British magazine. Tags: military force environment. But now there is increasing talk of more far-reaching action.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Prions are an interesting little group of procellariid, distinct from the gadfly petrels, shearwaters and fulmarine petrels, and I’ll dedicate a post to the group at some point in the future. Fairy Prions ( Pachyptila turtur ) And then there were the “true petrels&# , insofar as that group has any taxonomic meaning anymore.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It may be as simple as trying to hit the big white one.

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Critter News

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Congolese National Park Authorities have sent the biggest ever deployment of armed rangers to strike at charcoal-making operations run by armed groups deep in the forests of Virunga National Park in Eastern DR Congo. Tags: virunga rwanda africa congo gorillas endangered species.

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Critter News

JUNE 26, 2009

Dozens of animals have been killed by armed groups at Africa's oldest national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year, park officials and environmental groups said Tuesday. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. They died between May 25 and June 16, he said.

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