Word: congos
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...this artful fakery is the centerpiece of the zoo's new Congo Gorilla Forest, scheduled to open this week. The $43 million exhibit will provide a homey setting for at least 19 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...
...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...
While a few great apes live in luxury in the new Congo Gorilla Forest in the Bronx, many of their wild relatives are being killed or crowded out of their homelands in Africa. The chief threats to their survival are threefold...
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MARGUERITE MICHAELS, TIME's news director, writes this week on the conflict festering in Congo. "It was a difficult story to end, because there is no end," says Michaels, a former Nairobi bureau chief who has visited Congo often. "I see last week's murder of Americans in Uganda as an indication of the chaos that will continue until Africa reshapes itself." Nevertheless, she adds, "that reshaping of colonial borders will bring about the continent's renaissance...