Ebola Threatens to Kill Off Gorillas in Africa
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The continued spread of the Ebola virus could wipe out the species, researchers are reporting today.
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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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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes.
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Flooding across much of West and Central Africa has killed at least 75 people and threaten around a half million, according to UN officials and government ay as several countries reported worsening conditions.
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The continent struggles to contain a locust swarm that a UN official says could be more dangerous than Darfur.
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Namibia  and South Africa are told at a Bangkok animal trade summit they can  each kill five endangered black rhinos per year.
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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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Two UN agencies have warned that bird flu is set to remain a serious threat to animal and human life worldwide in the near future.
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The huge locust swarms that have ravaged swaths of western Africa are likely to plague the region for several years, a senior U.N. official said.
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a government official said on Saturday.
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A $620-million dam in Ghana will force hundreds of hippos to leave their habitat on the Black Volta river and move upstream where they will come into conflict with farmers and may starve, conservationists warn.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 18 -- International medical personnel and supplies are being airlifted to a remote region of central Congo to combat what threatens to become the world's most serious outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in years.
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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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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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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a  Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in  the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a  government official said on Saturday.
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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.