Say your good-bys to the hippopotamus on earth, forever? Extinction!

LaPera

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Wed Nov-09-05 03:32 PM
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Say your good-bys to the hippopotamus on earth, forever? Extinction!

Edited on Wed Nov-09-05 03:34 PM by LaPera

Congo's Hippos Hunted, Eaten to Extinction

"Guillaume Kasereka used a rusty Russian-made rocket launcher to kill hippos for meat. These days, he says, they're too scarce and the competition too fierce � rebels and militiamen machine-gun the animals and even dynamite lakes to bring dead hippo to the surface.

Only about 800 remain in Virunga National Park, in the northeast of the country, down from 29,000 in the mid-1970s...

Villagers say hippo meat usually comes to markets unannounced. Its sale is illegal and it sells fast."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/11/09/international/i105344S89.DTL

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RedCloud

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Wed Nov-09-05 04:18 PM
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1. Better keep this away from matcom!

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