Ebola 'kills over 5,000 gorillas'
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The deadly Ebola virus may have killed more than 5,000 gorillas in central Africa, a study finds.
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More than 1,000 people a day die as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a report says.
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Paris - More than three million people will have died from Aids in 2004 and nearly 40 million now have HIV, the highest tolls in the 23-year history of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the United Nations reported Tuesday.
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Apes, gazelles, crocodiles, dolphins, vultures and parakeets are all in danger as the global extinction crisis escalates.
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From the lowland gorillas of Africa to corals of the Galapagos Islands, more than 16,300 species are threatened with extinction, the World Conservation Union said on Wednesday in its annual Red List.
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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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An anthrax outbreak has killed 194 hippos in western Uganda, wildlife officials said Tuesday, and scientists are struggling to develop a way to quickly diagnose and contain the disease.
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Eight more cases of Ebola have been identified in Congo, raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have contracted the deadly illness, the World Health Organization said Tuesday
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Five thousand children die every day globally because they do not have access to clean toilets, health experts said on Tuesday.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study  released  yesterday estimates that as many as 23,000 of the animals were slaughtered...
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Science & environment: An unprecedented number of camels across North Africa and the Middle East died last year
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Researchers called the situation in Darfur a &quot;demographic catastrophe&quot; on Friday after the first scientific study done in the region found high death rates both before and after the displacement of some 1.5 million people.
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An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.See photos >>Watch video >>
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Sunday&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami disaster neared 120,000 as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke of &quot;an unprecedented global catastrophe&quot; which called for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot;.
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The relief organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres finds 'staggering' death rates in Uganda's camps.
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Gaborone - The outbreak of anthrax in Botswana&#39;s Chobe National Park had claimed the lives of 265 animals, but was now subsiding, an assistant director in the Department of Wildlife said on Friday.