Sunday, September 30, 2012

Cercopithecus roloway (click here)

Owabi (Right, a two-week-old monkey cub of the Cercopithecus roloway family is pictured with its mother, Nyaga, at the zoo in Mulhouse, eastern France. An exceptionally rare Roloway monkey has been born at a zoo in eastern France that is striving to preserve one of the most endangered primate species on the planet.

They have a gorgeous coat and while it is true their habitat is being destroyed, one can't wonder if their fur is sought after as well. 


The Roloway monkey (click here) is one of the three most endangered monkeys of Ghana on the west coast of Africa. Roloway monkeys are an arboreal species found primarily in undisturbed, mature forests. Sadly, they do not appear to be very adaptable to changes in their habitat making them particularly vulnerable to human activity. Roloway monkeys are found in Ghana and eastern Cote d’Ivoire, also found in GuineaIvory CoastLiberia, and Sierra Leone. Roloway monkeys mostly inhabit forests and are found under the canopy of the rainforests.


War is very bad for wildlife and wildlife conservation. Sometimes zoos are the safest haven for these endangered species. Then we wonder why we are losing our jungles and rainforests. Poaching happens easiest if there is war. It isn't good for the people that live there and sincerely love the wildlife either. Guns and gore.





Senior ally of former Ivory Coast president re-arrested in Ghana (click here)

September 28, 2012|Reuters

(Reuters) - Interpol agents in Ghana have rearrested a senior ally of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo amid a deepening dispute that has led to the closure of the border between the two West African neighbors, his lawyer said late on Friday.
Ivorian authorities are seeking the extradition of Justin Kone Katinan, a former budget minister, who was first arrested in Ghana last month during a wave of deadly attacks in Ivory Coast that the government there blamed on pro-Gbagbo exiles.