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Bonne Année's Corner: Updates from the Congo Office
Justice and Conservation
The best way to provide justice in wildlife conservation is through the full application of the laws aimed at animal protection.
Poachers of elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, buffalo and other protected species are warned that the laws will be fully enforced against anyone who has killed one of these.
Dispatches from the Field: INCEF in Action
Day Five: Five Days on the Road
Ella and Eric are just one of three INCEF teams working in the Republic of
Congo. Together all three teams covered more than 50 towns and villages
in 2009, and reached thousands of individuals.
Results from the questionnaires not only showed that villagers remembered
what they had learned the previous year about both Great Ape Conservation
and Ebola Prevention, but gave preliminary indications that these
villagers are changing their attitudes about protected species, emerging
viruses, and the need to seek alternatives to commercial bushmeat hunting.
Six additional INCEF teams are working with villagers around Africa's
largest tropical rainforest reserve, Salonga National Park, in neighboring
Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
As Ella and Eric move on to the next village, your support will help us
In the News: Updates in Communication, Conservation, and Health
End of War Brings Elephants Back to Southern Sudan
Associated Press
November 29. 2008
OPEKOLOE, Sudan — The hippos had fled to other islands in the White Nile, driven away by one of the few forces that can dislodge a large herd of these fierce beasts — an even larger herd of elephants.
And there they were: some 50 elephants, massive black figures peacefully grazing on their newly reclaimed territory on the Nile island of Opekoloe.
