UPDATE YOU WILL LOVE...BUT READDDDDDDD...LOL Since we last blogged about the elephants of Kabaraza gradually learning to trust the men in green, the rapprochement continues. Big Gorilly Hugs

We need to raise $103,250 to take Ndeze, and the only other orphaned, baby mountain gorilla in the world, Ndakasi, out of the dirty and dangerous conditions in which they live in the city of Goma.

From the Predator Compensation Fund: After the positive response we got from our introduction to our Predator Compensation Fund we thought we would provide you with some more facts and photos of PCF in action!

The Senkwekwe Centre - the future home for the only 2 baby mountain orphan mountain gorillas IN THE WORLD - is crucially important, primarily because it'll give our orphans somewhere to live. It is as simple as that. Big Gorilly Hugs

Unfortunately the 'Jiko Rescue' project was not one of the top-three winners, but to be chosen as one of twelve finalists out of nearly a thousand nominations is still a notable achievement.

Most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily ... Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day--or some 50,000 species a year--as the forests fall.

Dr Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija says what she went through after losing two children made her understand the pain other women undergo. She counts as an achievement educating disadvantaged women on simple ways to ensure babies survive the first 28 days after

Pleas from animal rights activists have fallen on deaf ears and young Zulu men will again kill a bull with their bare hands as part of this year's fresh fruits festival, the Ukweshwana. The Zulu royal house yesterday denied receiving letters from ....

In spite of the efforts of Spanish activists, and many wonderful people here at Care2, whose petition raised over 7,000 signatures in a very short time, and which the activist group presented for us, the hideous Toro Jubilo again went ahead.

Hundreds of wolves across Montana and Idaho could soon share the same cruel fate as Yellowstone's Wolf 527 -- unless they are swiftly granted federal protection. So please take the important wolf-saving action of sending this message to Interior Secretary