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QLLA Charities CHaD Classic and Gala benefit the hospital's Child Advocacy and Protection Program QUECHEE, Vt., June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Quechee Lakes Landowners Association (QLLA) Charities will host its annual CHaD Classic Golf Tournament at The Quechee Club on Monday, June 10 to benefit the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130608/CG28777 ) Registration is at 9:30 a.m. and the...
YARMOUTH PORT, Mass., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Poachers in Chad have slaughtered 86 elephants, including 33 pregnant females, in less than a week. The elephants were killed close to the Chad border with Cameroon and their ivory hacked out. It is the worst killing spree of elephants since early 2012 when poachers from Chad and Sudan killed as many as many as 650 elephants in a matter of weeks in Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida National Park. "This is completely shocking,"...
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VuMee (OTCBB: VUME)--VuMee is pleased to announce that former All-Pro wide receiver Chad Johnson has joined VuMee.com as a celebrity content provider. The Miami native was a six-time NFL Pro Bowler and was named to three All-Pro teams. Chad holds most of the Cincinnati Bengals' most important receiving records. Chad currently has over 5.1 million twitter followers and in April 2011 CNBC listed the then-Ochocinco as #1 on the list...
Sangha Trinational - shared between Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo; Lakes of Ounianga in Chad and Chengjiang fossil site in China have been inscribed on the World Heritage List, following the recommendations of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). Lena Pillars Nature Park in Russia and Western Ghats in India were also added to the prestigious list by the World Heritage Committee, a 21-nation panel. St. Petersburg, Russia (PRWEB) July 03,...
Regional cooperation critical to address recent upsurge in poaching, according to WWF Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 06, 2012 Central African countries today signed a groundbreaking regional plan to strengthen law enforcement and better combat poaching of elephants and other species at risk from illegal wildlife trade. The plan was adopted by the ten member states of Central African Forest Commission, known as COMIFAC, as escalating rates of wildlife crime plague the region. Wildlife...
LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International Medical Corps will immediately scale up its support to the government of Chad in polio eradication activities through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The organization will increase the availability of the polio vaccine and immunization services for targeted communities in eastern Chad; improve resilience to polio and other disease outbreaks through community education efforts; and strengthen the...
Leading Partner ExxonMobil is Helping Remind Families about Nightly Net Usage NEW YORK, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NightWatch, a communications program developed by Malaria No More and Lalela Project, is expanding to include Chad and Tanzania; this is in addition to Cameroon and Senegal, where successful pilot programs launched last year. Launch events are being held in each new country on or near World Malaria Day, April 25. NightWatch is an innovative health...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VH1 has signed "Basketball Wife" Evelyn Lozada and her fiance, NFL superstar Chad Ochocinco for a new series showcasing their upcoming wedding, including all the scheduling, details and drama that lead to their special day. The eight-part series "Ev and Ocho" will premiere September 2012 and consist of eight half-hour episodes concluding with a two-part wedding finale. VH1 has followed Evelyn's story through four seasons of...
PARIS, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With up to 400 elephants already butchered for their ivory, last week soldiers were in a deadly battle with poachers to prevent further killings in Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida National Park. A team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org), who was on the ground in Cameroon, reported heavy fire between the two sides last Monday as poachers targeted a herd of elephants. At least 63 gunshots were heard during...
CALGARY, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Griffiths Energy International Inc. ("Griffiths Energy" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has arranged a $125 million private placement equity financing (the "Private Placement") on a best-efforts basis through a syndicate of investment dealers. Griffiths Energy has also executed a term sheet in respect of a $75 million credit facility (the "Credit Facility") with a syndicate of lenders. Griffiths Energy is also pleased to provide an...
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The Gray-backed Fiscal (Lanius excubitoroides) is a species of bird found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
The Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles senegallus), is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family of birds. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Western Sahara.
The Topi (Damaliscus lunatus), also known as the Tsessebe, Tiang or Korrigum, is an antelope found in Sudan, Chad, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. It lives in savannah and floodplain where it eats mainly grasses. Topi can reach over forty miles per hour when frightened and will sometimes jump over each other to get away from a threat. They have the reputation of being the fastest of all antelopes. Topi stand over 40 inches tall at the shoulder and weigh 185 to 365 pounds. Their coats...
The mantled guereza (Colobus guereza), also known simply as the guereza or the abyssinian black-and-white colobus, is a colobus monkey. It is a kind of Old World monkey. It is native to much of west central and east Africa, including Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Chad. This black-and-white colobus species grows to about 18 to 28 inches, with a 20 to 35 inch tail. It weighs 12 to 32 pounds. It has no cheek pouches, and, like most colobi, the thumb is nearly...
The Saddle-billed Stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, also known as the Jabiru Stork, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa as well as the Gambia, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad in West Africa. It breeds in marshy wetlands in tropical lowland. The Saddle-billed Stork is generally 59 inches tall and has a wingspan of about 106 inches. Females are...
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