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(Fossey, 1983). Rwanda's population density, which is the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, is 332 people per square kilometer (128 people per square mile). Besides the capital ... nations, included a period of European domination. In 1899, Rwanda and neighboring Burundi became a German protectorate (German East Africa). Later, during World War I, Belgian troops moved in and took control of ...
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Gorilla 100 - Discovery of the Mountain Gorilla
Gorilla Discovered on October 17, 1902 on the ridges of the volcanic Virunga mountains by German explorer Captain Robert von Beringe, the mountain gorilla was named Gorilla gorilla beringei in ... visit the German outposts in what was then German East Africa in order to keep in touch with local chiefs and to confirm good relations, while strengthening the influence and power of the German Government ...
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Nature conservation is not possible without villagers' participation
German East Africa founded in 1902 a biological and agricultural research station at Amani. Its main task was ... pressure from the most valuable and vulnerable natural forests. During the phase II of the East Usambara Catchment Forest Project the emphasis has been boosting local participation. Some village forests has ...
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Rare & Extinct Creatures: Quagga
South Africa, on grassy plains. Its northern limit was the Orange River in the west and the Vaal River in the east; ... structural characters are now known to range through the whole of East Africa from Abyssinia to Zululand, and thence westwards to Southern Angola. ... known is Böhm’s quagga (E. quagga boehmi) from British and German East Africa. Nearly allied to it are Jalla’s quagga (E. quagga jallae) ...
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DRAUGHT AND RIDING ANIMALS OTHER THAN HORSES (1)
Grevy's zebra of East Africa is immune to tsetse fly and colonists once viewed it ... of Hamburg. The animal is a new mountain zebra from German East Africa. The photograph was taken within three months of its capture, ... . ...it will prove a valuable means of conveyance in South Africa. During one of my horse- breaking performances in 1892, at Pretoria ...
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Mountain Gorilla Stamps
Mount Sabinyo during an expedition to establish the boundaries of German East Africa. They managed, with difficulty, to bring one of the corpses back for scientific examination. It ... stamp depicting the mountain gorilla appears on a souvenir sheet of endangered wildlife of southern Africa. The other animals shown include the African black rhinoceros, the leopard, the roseate tern, ...
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Rwanda
Switzerland in the heart of Africa’. It’s about a third the size of Belgium, who administered it from 1919 (when it ceased to be part of German East Africa) until independence in ... Hutu ethnic group, traditionally farmers. For many centuries Rwanda attracted Tutsis - traditionally herdsmen - from northern Africa. By the very nature of these pastoral and agricultural roles, Tutsis tended to become ...
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MRF > Africa > Related Sites
African region. ECA has five Sub-Regional Development Centres:North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa. UNECA - Committee on Natural Resources and Science and Technology (CNRST) ... the SADC Map and Bibliographic databases. Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft e.V. / German Geological Society - (German) Department of the Earth Sciences - University of the Western Cape ...
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Africa on the Matrix: Herero People of Namibia
Namibia and Botswana as part of a larger migration of Bantu-speaking peoples from east Africa several hundred years ago. About 150 years ago, the group began to split and a ... for special occasions Herero men wear an elaborate suit that is reminiscent of 19th century German military uniforms. From the missionaries, the Herero also learned their current style of homebuilding. Unlike ...
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OneWorld.net / In depth / Africa / East Africa / Somalia - Full Coverage: Somalia
Somalia--------Africa Central Africa East Africa North Africa Southern Africa West AfricaAsia and the Pacific East Asia Middle East Oceania South Asia South East Asia South West AsiaEurope Eastern Europe Northern Europe South East Europe ... )Croatian (1,109)Afar (920)Oromo (Afan) (659)Portuguese (415)Abkhazian (190)German (171)Bosnian (59)Serbian (20)Dutch (14)Esperanto (12)Somali (9)Galician ( ...
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