Congo rangers treat rare gorilla orphaned in shooting
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National park rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are battling to save a 2-month-old gorilla found clinging to its dead mother, who was shot dead through the back of the head, conservationists said on Sunday.
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The arrival of an infant mountain gorilla is giving conservationists battling to save the critically endangered great apes an uncommon reason to celebrate.
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Tiny Rwanda and Burundi have threatened action against the central African giant, Democratic Republic of Congo, after the massacre of Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi, which has pushed Africa's volatile Great Lakes region into a new ethnic crisis.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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BROOKFIELD, Ill. - 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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Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes.
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Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.
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GATUMBA, Burundi  - Mourners covered their faces  to block the smell of disinfectant and death on Monday as they  buried more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees burned, hacked  and shot in an attack on their camp in western Burundi.
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - UN peacekeepers are scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in western Burundi, the United Nations ...
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters early last week.
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Animal doctors are using human drugs on a pair of zoo gorillas with heart disease.
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Patrolling in a wooden boat between the thickly forested banks of the broad Sangha river, the four "eco-guards" have something to show for their efforts to tackle poaching in this swathe of central Africa.
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A month after a massacre left more than 150 Congolese dead at a transit centre in Burundi after they had fled ethnic fighting in their own country, the United Nations refugee agency is preparing to relocate thousands of others away from the border area to
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By Joseph Guyler Delva GONAIVES, Haiti  - A Brazilian soldier with theU.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturdaywhen peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdownon armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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Renewed fighting Saturday inside a national park in Congo that is home to endangered mountain gorillas forced rangers to flee for the second time in less than a week, conservationists said.
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POPTUN, Guatemala  - A picture of a fierce-looking gorilla emblazoned with the words "Welcome to Hell" once hung over the entrance of Central America's toughest military training center, the notorious "Kaibil" school in Guatemala.