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 Stories About: Uganda
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Ducked Ape
East African gorillas make a comeback |
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24 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Ducked Ape East African gorillas make a comeback Good news, ape fans: thanks to conservation efforts, East Africa's mountain gorillas are eking their way toward not-endangeredness, at least in one national park. While still threatened by war, poaching, and habitat loss, an encouraging 340 mountain gorillas have found Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park at least penetrable enough to live ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, news, Uganda, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Afri-can Do
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18 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Afri-can Do Seeking to capitalize on the potential of renewable energy sources, 10 African nations are collaborating to increase their combined geothermal power generation to 1,000 megawatts by 2020. Geothermal power yields electricity by trapping steam released by water reservoi ... |
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| Topics: ... Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, green living, international government agencies, Kenya, Malawi, renewable energy, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia (all these topics) |
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What Would Costas Christ Do?
Preaching the gospel of ecotourism |
Lisa Jones |
03 Mar 2000 |
Main Dish |
| Costas Christ has a knack for handling sticky situations. I got a glimpse of this as I was making my way home from an ecotourism conference in Senegal in the early 1990s. Along with a number of other conference participants, I was stuck in the airport in the capital city of Dakar. For some unknown reason, the ticket agents had stalled us, so we were doing what American ecotourists often do when the Third Wo ... |
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| Topics: Africa, education, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, travel, Uganda, wildlife (all these topics) |
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