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BBC News
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Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have taken control of large parts of the Virunga National Park, home to rare mountain gorillas.
The move has raised fears for the fate of the gorillas. Only 700 remain - half of which are in Virunga.
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BBC News
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Three countries have come together for the first time, to try to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa.
Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have launched a project to improve security for the great apes.
One of the world's mos..
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BBC News
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South Africa's military is needed to fight crime on Cape Town's Table Mountain, the city authorities say.
The city's tourism head Simon Grindrod said there had been 15 muggings on the mountain, one of South Africa's most famous landmarks, in the past 1..
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Al Jazeera
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After days of heavy rain, part of a mountain tumbled on the bus as it wound through an indigenous area near the mountain village of Zacacoapan, in the Sierra Negra in the central southern state, burying it entirely under mud, fallen trees and boulders...
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Daily Mail
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Wildlife rangers are battling to save an orphaned baby mountain gorilla found clinging to her dead mother in the Congo.
The adult gorilla had been shot a point-blank range in the back of the head.
The two-month-old, who has been named Ndakasi by con..
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CNN
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Civil defense authorities in New Zealand have activated an emergency response plan after the volcanic crater lake at Mt. Ruapehu burst its banks sending a mudflow down the mountain, Australian media reported on Sunday.
There were no reports of injuries..
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BBC News
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The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the Nort..
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