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COMMENTS: Virunga Volcanoes
NBC's world travel saw Ann Curry in Congo's Tanya Nature Reserve for an Our Planet feature on the mountain gorilla sanctuary amid the Virunga volcanoes. The apes face a triple threat of the ongoing civil war, poachers and aggressive logging of their habitat, Curry told us. The response by Conservation International is a $7m land-for-development swap that sets aside 350 square miles as a preserve in exchange for development aid including a hospital, a school, hydroelectric power, a radio station and training in conservation science. The aid project may be interesting but Curry needed those cute apes to win airtime for her story.
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