Good news for gorillas
Efforts to protect the critically endangered mountain gorilla received a big boost yesterday when Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo agreed to cooperate on a 10-year conservation plan for the animals.
Only 720 mountain gorillas remain in the wild, all of them in the misty hills of central Africa where the three countries' borders meet. In the past 14 months, at least 10 gorillas have been killed in Congo's Virunga park by rebel fighters and people involved in the illegal charcoal trade.
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