http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org News from the WildlifeDirect team Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are all been glued to the depressing headlines every day about the housing crisis, economic credit crunch, collapsing banks. On the bright side we are witnessing an unprecedented level of global cooperation to manage bailouts and rescue packages to save the worlds’ economies.I don’t think I’m alone ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/10/rescue-plan-needed-for-biodiversity-trillions-of-dollars-are-being-lost-each-year/ We have been following the alarming developments in Eastern Congo on the Gorilla protection blog and here we bring some of the latest reports on BBC here and from the United Nations official site There is additional inforamation at the UNITED NATIONS Monuc website here Oct 8, 2008 - The Democratic Republic ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/09/rebels-take-over-rumangabo-dr-congo/ After going through the IUCN reports yesterday I was shocked to read Glaucia's latest blog post from Brazil about 225 MORE baby parrots seized - this was in addition to the 400 parrots seized earlier. Parrots, are among the most intelligent birds. Their popularity stems mostly from their ability to ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/08/disturbing-times-for-parrots/ As the world was busy watching for the outcome of the US financial bailout plan, another bailout plan had come to fruition in Kenya. This second bailout was geared not at rescuing the people from the rising cost of living or the high cost of food but at saving the ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/08/historic-release-of-captive-rhinos-into-the-wild/ Elephants generally evoke strong reactions from anyone who has to deal with them. Long term studies on a number of populations of elephant have taught us so much about the species by Cynthia Moss, Katy Payne, Joyce Poole, Ian Douglas-Hamilton and others have revealed how they are similar to people ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/07/can-elephants-survive-china-in-africa/ I could kick myself for canceling a trip to attend the IUCN World Conservation Congress meeting in Barcelona. I attended the previous Congress in Bangkok which was a great meeting of conservation professionals, except in retrospect I realise that there was alot of talk and not much achieved ... except ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/06/one-quarter-mammal-species-face-extinction/ Jenny, a 55 year old gorilla has died at Dallas Zoo in early September. She was an old gorilla, and died of a stomach tumor (actually she was euthanized because the tumor was inoperable).  In the wild gorillas don't live much beyond 30 so Jenny had along life, yet it ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/06/another-gorilla-dies-others-are-sick/ When we launched Owen and Mzee a few years ago, Turtle Pond, our partner also set up a special website for children to participate, interact and play games as a companion site for the Owen and Mzee books. The site was hugely successful. So it was natural that Turtle Pond has ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/06/kids-website-for-miza-is-launched/ Here are some of the photos taken during the Kids Gorilla Summit which we talked about here and here This was the team that sat on the panel, back row from left to right Isabella Hatkoff, Juliana Hatkoff, Peter Greste, Trevor Nielsen, Lucy Spelman, Billy Di Michelle, front row: Craig Hatkoff, ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/05/photos-from-the-gorilla-summit/ After spending a day with Lucy Spelman a vet with the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP)  in New York and hearing her amazing stories about live as a gorilla vet I realised that I'd much rather be in the rainforest experiencing what the MGVP does first hand. Well, I may ... http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/04/mgvp-up-close-and-personal-a-new-video/