Gorilla project unites Uganda, Rwanda and Congo

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	Gorilla project unites Uganda, Rwanda and Congo

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2-24-2008 2:49 AM

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<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/5221059f-be15-42f0-a68a-d24b7d3a3168/B7B38E83-1757-408B-9536-CF1829FFB581/" 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.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463" href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463" style="font-size: 11px;">www.enn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463">Uganda, Rwanda and Congo launched a 
            joint effort on Wednesday to protect endangered mountain 
            gorillas that roam the three nations' jungle borders</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463"> Fewer than 720 of the primates -- famous for the shimmering 
            silver hair on the backs of males -- are believed to exist in 
            the wild, spread across the remote Virunga hills where 
            Democratic Republic of Congo meets Uganda and Rwanda</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463"> They are a lucrative source of income from tourists, many 
            of whom are high-end visitors paying $500 a day for tracking 
            permits</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463"> According to the</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463">Uganda 
            Wildlife Authority (UWA)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463">the number of gorillas in southwest 
            Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, a stand-alone enclave for 
            the primates, is 340 -- making it the single largest 
            population</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463"> Another 250 are thought to roam on the Rwandan side of the 
            border. A smaller number are in Congo, where wildlife officials 
            say at least 10 were killed last year</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31463">But renewed conservation efforts, coupled 
            with the primates' growing value as tourist attractions, has 
            seen numbers recover</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/B7B38E83-1757-408B-9536-CF1829FFB581/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>