Global personalities name baby gorillas in Rwanda
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KINIGI, Rwanda  - Actress Natalie Portman and other celebrities descended on a Rwandan wildlife park on Saturday to name 23 baby mountain gorillas and help efforts to conserve the highly endangered species.
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With shutters clicking and cameras rolling, dozens of people crowded into the Franklin Park Zoo's indoor "tropical forest" on Saturday for the debut of its newest celebrity resident: a tiny 3-day-old western lowland gorilla.
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By TODD PITMAN  DAKAR, Senegal - Conservationists on Thursday announced the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals.  The tiny gorilla, named Ndeze, was born Feb.
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Okapi are phantasmagoric creatures that have inspired the work of Dr. Terese Hart, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Congo.
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Smaller but mightier than its neighbors, Rwanda&#39;s greatest clout may come from its nightmare past: a widespread sense around the world that the country was largely abandoned
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U.S. actor George Clooney and  Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel told the U.N. Security Council on  Thursday the world would be blamed for another Rwanda if  atrocities were not halted in Sudan's Darfur region.
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BERLIN, Dec. 4 (IPS) - Broadcasters from across Africa will gather in  Rwandan capital Kigali this week to propose new plans to bring  digital sound to their hundreds of millions of listeners.
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A 30-year-old gorilla died Tuesday at Brookfield Zoo, but motherhood may continue: The animal&#39;s eggs will be fertilized, frozen and later placed into another female to create new life.
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This Chapter of the video discusses the Celebrity Telethon where 2,166 Celebrities mobilize their fans to become Virtual Parents for the orphans. Fans will be able to watch their Children's Village being built in real time via Google Earth.
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Zoo officials plan to build a glass-walled enclosure to display Little Joe, a gorilla who escaped three years ago and mauled a 2-year-old girl.
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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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The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released Wednesday by the World Conservation Union.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks
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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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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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Shooting Dogs, a film about the Rwandan genocide, will get its premiere at the country's main stadium.
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Rwandan companies using the country's famous mountain gorillas' image for marketing purposes will have to pay a tax aimed at financing the endangered species protection, officials announced Monday.