Stories: Rwanda
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Fighting for an African forest
Click here to return to table of contents... GISHWATI AREA CONSERVATION PROJECT Kinihira, Rwanda — Near this east-central African village, an impassioned collection of ...
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Gishwati team an ecletic group
Click here to return to table of contents... Rebecca Chancellor knows a lot about Gishwati Forest's 14 remaining chimps. She knows they won't survive unless other chimps join ...
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Inspiration from gorillas leads Iowa businessman to Gishwati project
Click here to return to table of contents... Des Moines businessman Ted Townsend is the genial, articulate son of an inventor who made a fortune selling meat-processing ...
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A new, green day dawns in war-wracked Rwanda
Click here to return to table of contents... FARMING IN RWANDA: Villagers team up to hoe a field in the Gishwati area. Rwandan agriculture generally doesn't use modern ...
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Rwanda works to power up with clean energy
Click here to return to table of contents... Kigali, Rwanda — Six years ago, a drought nearly snuffed out the tiny flicker that is Rwanda's electricity supply. The country ...
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President Kagame is committed to environment
Click here to return to table of contents... The man driving Rwanda's new environmentally friendly economy studied military intelligence in the United States and Cuba, ...
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Much progress made, but many challenges face a post-genocide Rwanda
Click here to return to table of contents... The church at Nyamata became the final resting place for 10,000 people who sought refuge there. Hutu forces broke into the ...
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Moments from the trip: Perry Beeman’s reflections
Click here to return to table of contents... Hiking on the job If you want to write about the environment, you have to see the environment. In Gishwati Forest, I paid for my ...
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Renewal in Rwanda: Multimedia package for The Des Moines Register
About the series Des Moines Register reporter Perry Beeman visited Rwanda for five weeks on a grant from the International Reporting Project. In this multi-part interactive package ...
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Tracking wild chimps through the forest
Click here to return to table of contents... Des Moines Register reporter Perry Beeman goes on a 10.5-hour chimp trek through Gishwati Forest as scientist Rebecca Chancellor looks ...
