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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rwanda launches reforestation project to protect chimps, drive ecotourism]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Conservationists in Rwanda have launched an ambitious reforestation project that aims to create a forest corridor to link an isolated group of chimpanzees to larger  areas of habitat in Nyungwe National Park.  The initiative, called the Rwandan National Conservation Park, is backed by the Rwandan government, the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, and Earthpark, a group seeking to build an indoor rainforest in the U.S. Midwest.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0318-rwanda.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare gorillas slaughtered in mass killing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At least four critically endangered gorillas have been killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park.  National Geographic News reports they were shot "execution-style".  Illegal charcoal harvesters are leading suspects in the slaying.  Two other gorillas are missing and feared dead.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0724-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New monkey species in Uganda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda may soon have a new species of monkey according to a report published in Kampala's <i>New Vision</i> newspaper. Dr. Colin Groves of the Australian National University told New Vision that the local population of the gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) will soon be designated as a unique species, the Ugandan gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus ugandae).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0219-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mammals in war-torn Virunga National Park recovering finds WCS survey]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A recent wildlife census conducted in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revealed that several species of large mammal are now recovering from a decade of civil war and rampant poaching.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0620-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deforestation rates jump in Uganda and Burundi, fall in Rwanda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical deforestation rates have skyrocketed in Uganda and Burundi, while declining significantly in Rwanda according to mongabay.com's analysis of data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0125-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rwanda: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Rwanda.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20rwanda.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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