P448 Teletext 448 Jul30 02:34:49 ————————————————————————————— GORILLAS OF RWBNDA Rwanda hasn't been out of the news in the last year. And the atrocities inflicted on so many people have also affected the country's wildlife. Silvjrback gorillas living in Rwanda's volcanic mountain ranges are being pushed onto ever-decreasing territory. They have to compete with the country's eight million displaced peasant farmers for increasingly sparse resources. ——————————————————————————————————1/4— Music reviews 444 Make a new mate 447 IT'S YOUR LIFE p480 Write It Sports Lord Zig & Zag GreenP448 Teletext 448 Jul30 02:44:14 ————————————————————————————— GORILLAS OF RWBNDA Rwanda's gorillas were first noticed by colonials in 1902. Their hilly homes were turned into a game resjrvj for white hunters. The colonials killed and trapped the gorillas and eventually devastated the population. But in 1925, the resjrvj, Virungas Park, became Africa's first national park. From then on only scientists were allowed to kill gorillas for research. ——————————————————————————————————2/4—— Tourism moves tribes out 463 FRAME IT FOR GOOD p492 Write It Sports Lord Zig & Zag GreenP448 Teletext 448 Jul30 02:41:10 ————————————————————————————— GORILLAS OF RWBNDA There are only 640 mountain gorillas left in the forests of Rwanda and neighbouring Uganda. It warn't until 1963 that westerners realised that these gorillas didn't need shooting or locking up to study. Rwanda's civil war has lift 1000s of buried mines on the edges of the forest, posing a fatal threat to both humans and wildlife. ——————————————————————————————————3/4—— All the Green news 461 KEEP IT CLEAN FOR THE 'ZINE p442 Write It Sports Lord Zig & Zag GreenP448 Teletext 448 Jul30 02:44:56 ————————————————————————————— GORILLAS OF RWBNDA The mountain gorillas of Rwanda have seen much of their territory destroyed. Other wildlife affected by the war are: Hippos. Since 1990, 21,000 hippos have disappeared from Virungas Park in Rwanda. Only 12,000 are left. Cattle. 700,000 farm cattle wait in transit camps to bj resettled with farming communities. ——————————————————————————————————4/4—— Int'l Gorilla Conservation 01233-461471 GREEN NEWS AND VIEWS p460 Write It Sports Lord Zig & Zag Green