Word: basin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST DISCOVERED] Omo Basin, Ethiopia...
...gorillas, not to mention small populations of okapi, red river hogs, mandrills, wolf monkeys and about 70 other exotic species. The exhibit is intended not only to attract visitors but also to direct their attention--and their dollars--toward the plight of the animals' native habitat in the Congo basin, an area about the size of Western Europe that finds itself under relentless assault from loggers, poachers and chronic civil unrest...
...recent years, the world has become a brutally hard place to be a gorilla. Although there are still more than 130,000 gorillas in the Congo basin, they are being killed and crowded out at an alarming rate. By one estimate, 800 gorillas in Cameroon ended up as "bush meat" last year...
Power sees "the beautifully restored Memorial Hall tower ruling over Harvard because William James has long since been demolished," describing the tower as "oasis in the Charles River basin, which is now much, much larger due to the effects of global warming...
Power sees "the beautifully restored MemorialHall tower ruling over Harvard because WilliamJames has long since been demolished," describingthe tower as an "oasis in the Charles River basin,which is now much, much larger due to the effectsof global warming...