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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.
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Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve covers 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of Congo Basin rainforest ... Deforestation is concentrated along the Ituri river and National Route 4, in the ...
BBC7y
DR Congo rangers killed in raid to find US journalist
The Okapi reserve covers nearly 14,000 sq km (5,400 sq miles) and protects part of the Ituri forest near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Chinese Mining Operations Devastate Congo's Protected Lands
In the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, an environmental catastrophe ... as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world's second-largest carbon sink. Despite claims of respecting ...
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‘Zebra giraffe’ is born at California zoo. See the playful ‘striped booty cutie’
Okapis are from the rainforest of the Democratic Republic ... when a portion equivalent to one-fifth of the okapi habitat within Africa’s Ituri Forest was designated as a wildlife reserve.