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We know how many okapi live in zoos. In the wild? It’s complicated
Found in the DRC’s Ituri Forest, a part of the Congo Basin rainforest, they’re popular favorites at zoos around the world. But the okapi, for all its charm, is in more trouble today than it ...
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Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being obliterated by mining: 'It's a real mess'
Gold mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Okapi Wildlife Reserve is threatening part of the world's second-largest rainforest ... most prevalent along the Ituri River and National Route ...