<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/108c5b0c-eeb1-4636-8943-612c336df896/2E3201EF-CAF5-4C9A-A8D2-E6EB4B953907/" 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://www.thiswayplease.com/extra-extra/?p=470" href="http://www.thiswayplease.com/extra-extra/?p=470" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thiswayplease.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thiswayplease.com/extra-extra/?p=470"><P>I highly recommend taking a look at what may be the only two Congolese blogs written in English (Diaspora excluded - if I’m wrong about that, please let me know). <A href="http://www.wildlifedirect.org/" tip="a program of the Africa Conservation Fund, founded by Richard Leakey">Wildlife Direct</A> deserve bounteous credit for arming three elite <A href="http://www.wildlifedirect.org/congo-rangers/?page_id=2" tip="about the Advance Force">park rangers</A> in Eastern DRC with cameras and blogs:</p> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.wildlifedirect.org/elie/" tip="the first">Elie Mundima</A> commands the Rangers in <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virunga_National_Park" tip="a UNESCO World Heritage site">Virunga National Park</A>, where he says <EM>nearly 100</EM> rangers have died protecting Mountain Gorillas from land invasions, poachers and rebels in the past 10 years</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="" href="http://www.wildlifedirect.org/atamato/">Atamato</A> is based at Ishango, on the northern shores of Lake Edward. His job is to protect the last remaining hippos in Virunga</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.wildlifedirect.org/aloma/" tip="protecting gorillas for ten years">Aloma Major</A> has been using his blog to have a conversation with a school in Colorado (more of a monologue, so far: I wish they’d leave some comments)</LI></UL></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/2E3201EF-CAF5-4C9A-A8D2-E6EB4B953907/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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