Endangered gorillas prosper in heart of Africa
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PARC NATIONAL DES VOLCANS, Rwanda  - One hour's trek into the Rwandan rainforest, a crunching sound breaks the silence that hangs over the misty thick bush.
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Pygmy chimpanzees, one of humanity's closest living relatives, have been pushed to the brink of extinction in the war-battered Democratic Republic of Congo, conservation group WWF International said on Thursday.
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Four gorillas at the center of a five-year international tussle will finally return to Cameroon at the end of November, the South African government said Friday.
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Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africaâs tip, the African penguin, the continentâs only native penguin, are endangered.
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BROOKFIELD, Ill. Dec 8, 2004 - After Babs the gorilla died at age 30, keepers at Brookfield Zoo decided to allow surviving gorillas to mourn the most influential female in their social family.
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LONDON -- Missing marmosets, abducted alligators, purloined penguins: Thieves are targeting Europe's zoos and safari parks to supply animal collectors who want to own ever more exotic species.
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About 10,000 roam the wilds of Africa. Conservation programs are coordinating efforts to boost that number.
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A baby gorilla neglected by her mother was heading for a new home on Monday after undergoing emergency treatment for dehydration and hypothermia in a German hospital. via Earth Times
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One of the world's largest cases of  great ape smuggling will draw to a close next week when around  50 orangutan rescued from a Thai amusement park fly home to  their native Indonesia, a wildlife campaigner said on Thursday.
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Rebel troops who killed and ate two critically endangered mountain gorillas in Central Africa earlier this month have agreed to end the slaughter, conservationists say.
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Rwandan companies using the country's famous mountain gorillas' image for marketing purposes will have to pay a tax aimed at financing the endangered species protection, officials announced Monday.
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Less violence and more generous donations appear to be helping efforts to save the silverback gorillas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Thanks to a ceasefire engineered late last month between the government and the forces of dissident Army Gen.
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A third of the 394 known species of apes, monkeys, lemurs and other groups are listed as threatened with extinction in a new report from the World Conservation Union.
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Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla.
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Almost a third of all apes, monkeys and other primates are in danger of extinction because of rampant habitat destruction, the commercial sale of their meat and the trade in illegal wildlife, a report released Friday said.
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Gorillas in western and central Africa could be extinct within decades because of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, new research suggests.
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A group of international celebrities named 23 baby mountain gorillas in Rwanda Saturday, supporting efforts by the genocide-scarred country to save the endangered species and develop tourism.