Finding the Pygmies: Westerners Learn More About Africa's Ituri Forest People
Overview
The first half of the twentieth century was a difficult time for the indigenous people of Africa. Beginnin...
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Satellite tracking of pygmy elephants has found that the endangered animals _ unique to Borneo island _ are under threat due to logging and commercial plantations encroaching on their habitat, cons...
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A group of Pygmy musicians performing at an annual festival were temporarily put up in a zoo by Congolese officials, attracting tourists and prompting a protest from a human rights group.Authoritie...
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Wildlife officials Tuesday released 20 Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits that were raised in captivity to a sagebrush-covered area of central Washington state where their ancestors roamed before teeteri...
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LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A delegation of rainforest
pygmies from Democratic Republic of Congo will fly to Washington
this week to complain to the World Bank about its support for
wholesale loggi...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what may seem like a
David-versus-Goliath contest, Pygmy forest-dwellers from the
Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday challenged the World
Bank over logging in the stru...
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The federal government said Tuesday it will consider endangered species protection for the pygmy rabbit, which is struggling to survive in eight western states.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service an...
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Three pygmy killer whales beached themselves at North Myrtle Beach on Wednesday and were so sick they had to be put to death, officials said.Two male whales, which are about the size of dolphins, w...
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A university study shows the population of a tiny endangered owl in northern Mexico has declined by an estimated 26 percent over the last seven years, a finding that environmentalists said bolsters...
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The only surviving pair of endangered pygmy rabbits released as part of a program to increase their numbers in the wild have dodged coyotes, badgers, hawks and owls and found time for love. Proud s...
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The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is finally back in its old stomping grounds, munching olive-drab sagebrush and hopefully doing what rabbits do best.Twenty of the creatures _ each not much bigger th...
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Finding the Pygmies: Westerners Learn More About Africa's Ituri Forest People
Habitat loss threatens pygmy elephants
