Congo poachers leave bonobo at risk
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Humankind's closest relative is facing extinction in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - About 100,000 civilians in eastern Congo have fled a week of fighting between renegade soldiers and army loyalists, hiding deep into the forest where humanitarian workers cannot reach them, United Nations officials said Sunday.
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One of man's closest relatives, the pygmy chimpanzee, may be much closer to extinction than previously thought, a conservation group said Thursday.
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A virus similar to the HIV strain which causes AIDS has passed from apes to humans as a result of eating &#39;&#39;bushmeat&#39;&#39;in central Africa, an expert has warned.
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By DANIEL LOVERING Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand . The African elephant has a new line of defense against poachers after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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Industrial logging is damaging Central Africa's pristine forests and threatening an important ecosystem, the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts says.
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Wild animals are vanishing Kenya&#39;s oldest game reserve which borders the airport at Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service warned in a report unveiled on Friday.
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Congo's opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba will not be returning from Portugal due to safety concerns, aides say.
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A strict ban on granting new logging concessions in Congo's rainforest must be maintained while the poor African country struggles to recover from years of war, conservationists said on Saturday.
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The lethal Ebola virus has resurfaced in central Congo, U.N. officials said, and health experts were rushing supplies and doctors into the remote area to contain the disease.
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Five rare white rhinos due to be airlifted out of lawless northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo before poachers wipe them out must stay put, the government said on Saturday, infuriating conservationists.
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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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Gangs of poachers in Congo have been slaughtering the world's minuscule population of northern white rhinos, reducing the population by about one-half in just more than a year, a key conservation organization said Friday.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Zookeepers, police and animal control officers followed five runaway wildebeests through a residential area Tuesday after they escaped from the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo.
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Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres pulls out of a town in eastern DR Congo, amid rising concern at fighting.
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Nearly a third of the world's apes and monkeys are threatened with extinction because of human activity, much of it illegal, a World Conservation Union report concludes.