Ebola said depleting gorilla populations
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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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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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South Africa's Kruger National Park elephant population has nearly doubled in recent years, causing heavy habitat destruction and invasion of adjacent farms. Now conservation authorities are considering a plan to kill perhaps thousands elephants to bring the problem under control.
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A shortage of laboratory apes and monkeys could be holding back research into new drug treatments and genetics, it is claimed.
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Scientists struggle to contain an anthrax epidemic which has killed nearly 200 hippos in a Ugandan national park.
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The Republic of Congo Monday announced the establishment of two massive protected areas for elephants, chimpanzees and gorillas.
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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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Animal doctors are using human drugs on a pair of zoo gorillas with heart disease.
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Less violence and more generous donations appear to be helping efforts to save the silverback gorillas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Thanks to a ceasefire engineered late last month between the government and the forces of dissident Army Gen.
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An anthrax outbreak has killed 194 hippos in western Uganda, wildlife officials said Tuesday, and scientists are struggling to develop a way to quickly diagnose and contain the disease.
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Gorillas in western and central Africa could be extinct within decades because of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, new research suggests.
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Habitat loss means thousands of endangered species will survive only in zoos, new report says.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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WASHINGTON and ROME, Sept. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental degradation and, in particular, the loss of biodiversity could undermine the achievement of some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to FAO Assistant Director-General Alexander Muller.
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Congo's police and fractious army have been accused of involvement in rampant elephant poaching that threatens to wipe them out from a world heritage site in the east of the former Zaire, a new study has warned.
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By ARTHUR MAX  THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday.