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...Along with habitat loss, the apes face threats from human population growth and a surge in the bush-meat trade - locals and organized traders killing wildlife to eat and sell - along with the spread of the Ebola virus, estimated to have killed about a third of the world's gorillas in the past 15 years. (Read why Ebola is killing gorillas...
...Congo. But researchers say the western gorillas, though greater in number, are dying at a much faster rate. That's because they don't attract nearly the attention that Virunga's mountain gorillas do and live in areas where poachers escape punishment easily. "The most critical challenge that we face in central Africa is undoubtedly a lack of law enforcement," says David Greer, coordinator of the African Great Apes Program at the World Wildlife Fund. "In no uncertain terms, it's the ubiquitous impunity in this region. Nobody is held accountable, and there's no deterrent for killing protected species...
...challenge we now face is a longer-term polarization of our political system into a confrontational boxing match, each party unrelenting when the other is in power. Recourse from the current route requisites systemic change; anything less will spiral to dystopic ends. As apart as the North and South seemed when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter 150 years ago, party lines divide America today. The war we face comes with its costs of progress and efficiency, as each side fights to preserve its vision of America. The pivot of this “new secession?...
...primary, Stopa will face at least four other Republicans: Robert J. Chipman, who specializes in construction loans at Wells Fargo, lawyers Robert Delle and Marty Lamb, and Chair of the Hopkinton Board of Selectman Brian J. Herr...
...Lauren just comes to practice every day and she’s either face guarding someone or she’s the backer,” Miller said. “She just does a phenomenal job making everyone else work...