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Chimpanzee champion Jane Goodall crusades against deforestation at UN earth summit

Even in the veritable tower of Babel that is the United Nations' largest-ever conference, it's safe to assume that Jane Goodall was the only one speaking chimpanzee."Ooh, ooh, ooh, ah, ah," the iconic British conservationist chanted into the microphone, delivering a series of melancholic bursts she said roughly translated as "please help.""I think that's what chimpanzees would be saying if they could articulate it that way," Goodall told participants at a meeting Thursday of the conservationist umbrella group Avoided Deforestation Partners. The event took place on the margins of the U.N.'s Rio+20 mega-conference on sustainable development, which has drawn an estimated 50,000 diplomats, environmentalists, policy makers and concerned citizens from across the globe to Rio de Janeiro.The world's forests are among the crucial, life-sustaining environmental systems scientists say are teetering on the brink of a tipping point. The U.N.'s Environment Program warned earlier this month that the ...

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  1. Biologist Warned Connecticut Officials Chimpanzee Was Dangerous Before Attack

    A Connecticut biologist warned state officials nearly five months ago that a 200-pound chimpanzee that mauled a woman last month could seriously hurt someone if he f...

  2. Chimpanzee Victim May Be Blind, Brain Damaged

    A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage, and hospital officials s...

  3. VIDEO: Chimpanzee Charges At Zoo Barrier and Shocks Kids Watching

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  4. U.S. Agency Bars Most Chimpanzee Experiments on Ethical Concerns

    The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is temporarily barring federally funded experiments on chimpanzees as it reviews a report that concluded most research don...

  5. Tennessee CEO Sends E-Mail Comparing Firsty Lady to Chimpanzee

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The CEO of Tennessee's hospitality association is apologizing for sending an e-mail to a group of public figures that compares first lady Michell...

  6. What Fuels Chimpanzee Violence? Real Estate

    Chimp-on-chimp attacks in the wild are very common, especially among small packs of males on patrol. Now research suggests the motive for these crimes is to gain ter...

  7. $4M settlement in lawsuit over Connecticut chimp attack that blinded woman

    A settlement agreement calls for a woman disfigured in a chimpanzee attack to receive about $4 million from the estate of the animal's now-dead owner, according to d...

  8. Settlement reached in Connecticut chimp attack suit

    Lawyers for a woman mauled by a chimpanzee in Connecticut have agreed to settle a lawsuit against the estate of the primate's now-dead owner, but there's a dispute o...

  9. $4M settlement reached after Connecticut mauled by chimp

    A settlement agreement calls for a woman disfigured in a Connecticut chimpanzee attack to receive about $4 million from the estate of the animal's now-dead owner.Att...

  10. Heartwarming moments defy chill at 124th annual Rose Parade

    A couple who became husband and wife on the "Love Float," a surprise reunion between a returning soldier and his little boy, and a grand marshal famed globally for h...

  11. Chimp and Human Gut Bacteria Nearly Identical

    Humans share about 99 percent of our genomes with chimpanzees. Now, research finds we share something else: gut bacteria.The bacterial colonies that populate the chi...

  12. Chimpanzee Attack Revives Calls for Federal Primate Law

    A bill pending in Congress that would ban selling primates as pets must be passed to rectify a patchwork of state and local laws that leave many people at risk of be...

  1. Chimpanzee attack victim faults state officials

    Lawyers for a Connecticut woman severely disfigured in a chimpanzee attack have filed papers accusing state officials of failing to seize the animal before the mauli...

  2. New face of chimpanzee attack victim revealed after transplant operation

    The new face of a Connecticut woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee two years ago was revealed for the first time Thursday in photos showing a startling transformatio...

  3. Victim of brutal chimpanzee attack in Conn. says the death of the animal's owner is sad

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded in a chimpanzee attack last year says the death of the chimp's owner is sad and that she isn't ...

  4. Up in smoke: South African chimpanzee famed for smoking habit dies at 52

    Charlie the smoking chimpanzee has died. Qondile Khedama, a spokesman for the central South African city of Bloemfontein where Charlie had been a fixture at the smal...

  5. Chimpanzee Owner Says She Never Gave Xanax to the Animal

    The owner of a 200-pound chimpanzee that attacked a Connecticut woman is reportedly disputing police accounts that she gave the animal an anti-anxiety drug prior to ...

  6. Chimpanzee Attacks, Mauls Connecticut Woman Before Being Killed by Police

    An out-of-control, 200-pound pet chimpanzee that had recently been given Xanax apparently went berserk and mauled a woman in Connecticut, leaving her in critical con...

  7. 911 Call Released in Horrific Chimpanzee Attack

    The desperate owner of a chimpanzee that went on a rampage in Stamford, Conn., pleaded with police over the phone to help her stop the animal from mauling her friend...

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