Thursday, July 27, 2006

Saving Rwanda's Gorilla


The mountain gorillas of Rwanda live in a fragile and shrinking ecosystem, one that if compromised further will lead to the extinction of this species so closely related to our own. Yet because the humans in this mountainous region are suffering from inadequate farmland and insufficient water to support their growing numbers, they venture into gorilla territory to cut down the forest for farmland and collect the water needed to survive.

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