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BeetleCam: The remote-controlled camera that captures animals close up Source: Telegrach UK
Two British brothers have created a homemade gadget called BeetleCam that allows them to take stunning images of Africa's most dangerous wildlife.
Matthew Burrard-Lucas, 20, a student, and William, 26, a wildlife photographer, both from London, constructed BeetleCam last year in their garage and fitted the groundbreaking contraption with a camera.
For two weeks in August they let their contraption loose in the wilds of remote Katavi National Park, South-West Tanzania, and got incredible results...
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New gorilla rescue centre to open in eastern Congo
Source: Wildlife Extra News
U.N. peacekeeping mission will airlift orphaned gorillas to new facility - April 2010. The first batch of 10 orphaned gorillas rescued from poachers in Rwanda and Congo are getting ready to be airlifted to the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC), where they will learn to behave like wild gorillas in the first-ever rescue centre for Grauer's (eastern lowland) gorillas. Starting in late April, the U.N. Peacekeeping Force in DRC will begin transporting the young gorillas to the new Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Centre, called GRACE.
10 gorillas to start - Currently under construction, GRACE, which was initiated by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International with advice on design and systems provided by experts from Disney's Animal Programs and Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA), will initially house 10 orphaned gorillas currently living in temporary facilities under the care of the Congolese Park Authority (ICCN), the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), and the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP), as well as the Fossey Fund.
"This facility provides a critical opportunity for us to help many more young gorillas that have been victimized by poaching, armed conflict, or habitat destruction, and also to strengthen our partnership with the people who are the true stewards of the land and the animals," says Fossey Fund President and CEO Clare Richardson...
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1.4 tonnes of ivory seized in Thailand
Source: Traffic
Bangkok, Thailand, 22 April 2010: Customs officers at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport seized almost 1.4 tonnes of elephant ivory tusks on 17 April, officials in Thailand announced yesterday. Acting on a tip-off, Customs officers discovered 296 African Elephant tusks weighing a combined total of 1,390 kg inside three crates on board flight from Qatar. The cargo was labeled as "printing metal" and addressed to a Thai company based in Bangkok.
This is the latest in a series of large scale ivory seizures involving Thailand and ivory illegally transported from Africa via the Middle East. In February, Customs officials at Suvarnabhumi seized 239 African Elephant tusks weighing an estimated two tonnes, reported to be the country's biggest ever ivory seizure. The ivory was said to have arrived on an Emirates flight from Dubai where it arrived from Nairobi, and was apparently destined for Lao PDR. Earlier, in August 2009, officials at the airport were reported to have seized 316 pieces of ivory weighing 2 tonnes in a shipment from Uganda and Kenya.
"The discovery of yet another large scale illicit shipment of ivory is both a testament to the dedication and vigilance of Thailand's enforcement officers and an indictment of Thailand's role as a hub in the illegal ivory trade," said Dr William Schaedla, Director of TRAFFIC Southeast Asia...
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