"Here we will drop our backpacks and walking sticks. The Gorillas are very close now." Aside from being pronounced man and wife and being told I have a healthy baby girl, this sentence uttered by Keep Reading
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My heart aches. I feel as if I cannot breathe. I'm halfway through a tour of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, which opened in 2004 on the site where 250,000 victims of the Rwanda genocide Keep Reading
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#JustOneRhino: 10 Reasons to Save Rhinos
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Africa is in serious trouble. And no, we're not just talking about ebola (although the outbreak certainly isn't helping matters), but poaching. The Asian hunger for wild animal parts Keep Reading
