<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c2807595-a203-4d95-bd13-6c6fc6f9d84b/00F47BB0-A350-45E6-A83B-867F8CB01328/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7254357.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7254357.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7254357.stm"><TR><TD colspan="3"><DIV class="mxb"><DIV class="sh"> Rare cooperation to save gorillas </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="416" valign="top"><FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Rangers standing next to dead gorillas (Image: Altor IGCP Goma)" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44064000/jpg/_44064423_deadgorillas203igcp.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">The slaughter of mountain gorillas in 2007 shocked the world</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>Three countries have come together for the first time, to try to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa. </B> </FONT><P><FONT size="2">Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have launched a project to improve their security. </FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">One of the world's most endangered species, they live at the point where the three countries meet. </FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">There are only about 700 mountain gorillas still left in the world and they have been hit by the destruction of the forests - their natural habitat. </FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">The volcanic Virunga mountains that straddle Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the heartland of these great apes. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="208" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD width="5"><IMG width="5" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" /></TD><TD class="sibtbg"><DIV class="o"> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Map" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44438000/gif/_44438897_drcongo_virunga_0208.gif" /> </DIV> <DIV class="o"> <IMG width="203" vspace="2" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif" /> </DIV> <DIV class="miiib"><DIV class="arr"><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7110093.stm" class="" linkindex="50" set="yes">Diary: Protecting gorillas</A></DIV></DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">A census carried out in 2004 estimated that 380 mountain gorillas, more than half of the world's population, lived in the Virunga national park and surrounding region. </FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">More than 300 also live in southwest Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest reserve.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/00F47BB0-A350-45E6-A83B-867F8CB01328/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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