Rare cooperation to save gorillas
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Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes.
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Pristine forests offer the rare primates a much healthier diet, an anthropologist says, in a finding that may shape future protection efforts on the African island nation of Madagascar.
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Booming global trade in rare forms of wildlife ranging from tropical fish and trees to African lizards is threatening many of them with extinction, conservation group WWF said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, a species already
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There are no easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land mammal in check.
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Animal doctors are using human drugs on a pair of zoo gorillas with heart disease.
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Some owners set them loose instead of bringing them to crocodile refuges. But the pet trade helps wild crocs, too.
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A wildlife park is widening its collection of animals to include Japanese macaques.
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Conservationists in DR Congo celebrate the birth of a baby mountain gorilla in the Virunga National Park.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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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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An outbreak of Ebola virus in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says.
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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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DES MOINES, Iowa - Azy and Indah are about to go off to school, but they certainly are not ordinary students. They're orangutans, long-limbed, long-haired, bright-eyed primates who will become the first residents of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, where Rob Shumaker and his associates will study their behavior and learning capabilities...
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By Kitty Melrose  Samboja Eco Lodge Borneo   Samboja opened last year as part of a conservation project operated by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
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PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador  - While scientists search for a mate for "Lonesome George" -- the last known survivor of a species of Galapagos tortoise -- some say the effort to fend off extinction may be in vain.
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Go in the field with biologists studying how lemurs are coping with habitat loss, and meet the unusual creature they encounter that could be a new primate species.