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Readers of this blog and other news related to the calamitous trends in the large-scale poaching of African elephants have another word to add to the vocabulary of crimes against nature: Minkebe. I did not share the shock that the news release from the Office of the President Ali Bongo Ondimba brought to most readers.…
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Gabon’s Minkebe National Park, once home to Africa’s largest forest elephant population, has lost 11,100 elephants to the illegal ivory trade in recent years, the Wildlife Conservation Society says. If we can find hundreds of millions of dollars to fight terrorism in Mali, we should be able to find the resources to combat this last big push by poachers, which may well be the final blow to a species that has just about gone extinct in the majority of countries where it once ranged.
Posted by Six orphan gorillas, rescued from the illegal bush meat trade, have begun new independent lives on a lagoon island outside Loango National Park in Gabon, the Société de Conservation et Développement (SCD) said today. “This is the first step in a reintroduction project that is hoped will allow them to return entirely to the wild…
The Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit in New York’s Bronx Zoo is home to 19 of the great apes and an assortment of other animals. It has also raised almost U.S. $11,000,000 for the conservation of Central Africa’s Congo Basin rain forest and wildlife, the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the zoo, said today. WCS photos…
Photo by Michael Nichols/NGS The United Nations and an international coalition of zoos have declared 2009 the Year of the Gorilla. Announced last month, Year of the Gorilla (YoG) aims to unite the needs of both the largest living primate and the people who live in gorilla range states. YoG “aims to boost conservation of…
Breaking news for birders: Researchers at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to science. The olive-backed forest robin (Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus) measures 4.5 inches in length and averages a little more than half an ounce in weight. Smithsonian Ornithologist Brian Schmidt with a female specimen of the newly…
