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...nature reserve in Sankuru in central Congo. Measuring 11,803 sq. mi. (30,750 sq km)--or roughly the size of Massachusetts--the area will serve as a sanctuary not only for bonobos but also for 10 other species of primates as well as elephants and the endangered okapi, a short-necked cousin of the giraffe. As remarkable as the protection the reserve will provide is the fact that such a set-aside got created at all. Trying to carve so pastoral a corner out of so violent a country is never easy, and the particular way conservationists went about...
...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...
...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stanima of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs."-Harvard squash player George Polsky after the Crimson defeated Dartmouth...
...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stamina of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs. In a nutshell, we're ready for Yale...
...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stamina of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs."--Harvard squash player George Polsky after the Crimson defeated Dartmouth, 7-2, Wednesday...