Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The Rangers in Virunga can continue their daily routines of removing poachers snares (536 snares were found during the recent census taking), filming newborn gorillas and simply enjoying the results of their tremendous sacrifices to protect the gorillas. We have finger prints, gorillas have nose prints. And did you know.

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Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

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

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. With an estimated 200 to 300 individuals left in the wild, the Cross River Gorilla (CR) ( Gorilla gorilla diehli ) has been hunted to near extinction. A newly created U.S.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Thought-provoking article in the Boston Globe.some green thinkers are now coming to a surprising conclusion: In exceptional circumstances, they say, the only effective way to protect the environment may be at the barrel of a gun. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The trip was short on time, so no gorillas, chimps, or Albertine Rift endemics. The local community protects the swamp because it’s the home of their totem, the lungfish. Regardless, my suitcase always has binoculars and the relevant book for the region. So, despite three Shoebills, I felt the pang of dipping.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. The charges included the massacre of the gorillas and involvement in the illegal charcoal trade.

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Critter News

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Congolese rangers protect the wildlife in Virunga National Park, the most famous inhabitants of which are the 700 remaining mountain gorillas. Tags: virunga rwanda africa congo gorillas endangered species. These rangers are very brave people with possibly the most dangerous jobs in the world.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

As an intelligent primate, I’d much rather be an ambassador for my species in a secure environment—served the best food and tended to by top-notch veterinarians—than take my chances in a national park where poverty and corruption result in little or no protection for the non-human residents. Finally, what of the audience?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

After two years of heated debate on how to protect animal welfare without scuppering scientific research, the new limits, updating regulations from 1986, were adopted by the European Parliament despite objections from Green MEPs.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2008

This situation sounds a lot like the the mountain gorillas, the Congo and Virunga National Park. However, safety conditions have recently improved somewhat and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is optimistic that it can increase on-the-ground elephant conservation work in and around Zakouma to protect the remaining population.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

But in the end, being dead doesn’t protect an animal from mortality. Time and chance happeneth to museum specimens. Noble restoration work has been done at the AMNH, particularly to the glamorous megafauna. Taxidermy is a bizarre art. It is driven by love for animals, but relies on their deaths to exist.

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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. Sadly, there is evidence that the bushmeat trade is spreading rapidly into the Bili and Rubi-Tele protected areas, both of which have been recently invaded by illegal miners. Because they are in serious trouble there too.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I will try not to smash my computer screen in frustration. They have no qualms about what they do.

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JULY 9, 2014

People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land. They want to do this because of jobs and to extract economic benefit out of environmental areas. I can understand the concern about the wedge, about how the government wants to open up the forests again.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.”

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