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Scientist's disappearance confounds police
From CNN(International NEWS)

November 28, 2001 Posted: 12:35 PM EST (1735 GMT) --Dr. Don C. Wiley went to Memphis to attend a scientific meeting at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and to visit family. But in the early hours of November 16, the renowned Harvard University biochemist disappeared.Now Memphis police are exploring several theories involving suicide, robbery and murder. They also wonder if the disappearance could be connected to his expertise.




an African elephant -- a "woods type" and "prairie type"
From CNN(International NEWS)

2001.08.24 Web posted at: 2:59 PM JST (0559 GMT) -- Washington (AP) It turns out that two kinds, the group which lives in a prairie, and the group which lives in a forest, exist in the African elephant considered to be one kind so far, it sees from a gene, and there is a difference to the extent that it is regarded as "a kind" different on taxonomy. The joint research group of the U.S. and Kenya announced to the science magazine "a science" of issue on the 24th.




Africa eyes eclipse to up tourism
From CNN(WORLD NEWS)

June 21, 2001 Posted: 12:14 AM HKT (1614 GMT)LUSAKA, Zambia (Reuters) -- Southern Africa is looking to the first solar eclipse of the millennium to boost flagging tourism but experts say concerns for public health are casting a shadow on the spectacle.




Rwandan militants kill and eat rare mountain gorillas
From CNN(International NEWS)

June 5, 2001 Posted: 9:10 PM EDT (0110 GMT)VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda (AP) -- Rwandan soldiers fanned out across Virunga National Park on Tuesday to protect endangered mountain gorillas after militiamen grilled one male and ate its meat. A second gorilla reportedly met a similar fate.




Kenya AIDS activists criticize drug firms
From CNN(International NEWS)

May 10, 2001 Web posted at: 1:21 PM EDT (1721 GMT)NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) -- AIDS activists said on Thursday they feared the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies might be trying to hijack a parliamentary bill that would allow Kenya to import and manufacture cheap medicines.




Echinococcus@ Hokkaido travel after this

The season when the travel to Hokkaido also becomes busy soon came. Although there is a lot of wild animal / much vast prairie / beautiful air, does it know that the very fearful infection called Echinococcus.


There are Echinococcus details In the Hokkaido agency site is HERE



Measure against warming EU is Kyoto Protocol non-supported rice to re-persuasion.
From CNN(International NEWS)

2001.04.17 Web posted at: 6:43 AM JST (2143 GMT)London -- It will receive that U.S. President Bush expressed un-supporting in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 as which advanced each country determined the greenhouse-gas curtailment target towards the global-warming prevention on the 29th of the last month, and European Union (EU) positive to the measure against warming will ask the U.S. for reconsideration. Since British Secretary of State for the Environment Prescott deputy prime minister Kane will resume the negotiation with the interrupted U.S. on the 16th, he arrived in Washington.




WHO declares Uganda free of Ebola virus
From CNN(health NEWS)

February 28, 2001 Web posted at: 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT)GULU, Uganda (AP) -- The World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the deadly Ebola virus Tuesday, allowing grieving relatives of victims their first chance to visit the graves of loved ones who had been buried in an austere cemetery here.




It's active when going to HAWAII.

What do you do if going to Hawaii? Is it only shopping? Anything els? The feature of the island in Hawaii actively spent was united to the person who worried.


It's active when going to HAWAII isHERE



Succeed in DNA vaccine development of Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever
From National Institutes of Health(NIH) NEWS

When the vaccine to Ebola virus which the infection syndrome of present is caused with Uganda was developed, it is November 29, 2000. It was announced from National Institutes of Health
A detailed report is published by the issue for 30 days November of Nature.


National Institutes of Health(NIH) is HERE



Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever is generated in Uganda

It is reported that peculiar diseases become popular more than about the beginning on October, 2000 in whole town in the northern part of Gulu in Republic of Uganda, and turns out type EboraSudan it on the week second. The number of death patients was 60 people or more already in those days by 30 people or more. In the symptom of this peculiar disease, a sick fashion from which Ebola is doubted by the hemorrhage because of heat, the muscle pain, the mouth, the nose, and the the firsttime anus in Republic of Uganda. Settling down is supposed almost to be regained by the number's of the infection person and the dead greatly decreasing in the end of November both.


detailed Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever isHERE



Let's tell the story of the savanna
Writing to which Vet Dr.kambe is after a long time. It fights against the tsetse fly while defending the ecosystem of nature.Every day of impression of veterinarian who won international exchange prize of Minichi. Dr.kambe wrote the book after a long time.

It is enchanted to the Africa safari, and it has a hard time by the omission of the hair of the head, a British thesis is written, and [it] graduates from the Nairobi university Department of Veterinary master's course. And it is supported by a lot of NGO as it listening to the voice of wild animals now, and it works on stock raising cow's "Sleep disease".

The title : Let's tell the story of the savanna
Publisher : Jiji Press
Price : 1,600 yen
Sale : Now on sale


Dr.kambe's history from the past to present is here.I want to get it by all means reading everywhere a lot.
I wonder when it was from becoming of the coexistence of human and wild animals and the living thing the difficulty...



Jacaranda workshop
It is a recent situation of wonderful accessories which produces handmade everywhere local Africa with the trouble in the body report. The photograph of the commodity is published in the page of POLE POLE.

It is an introduction of the shop where accessories are handled !

Name of shop : GINAME(person in charge of MrYamane)
Address : 23-1 ooazahiyoshitsu,hiyoshi-mura,totori-ken
Tell : 0859-27-7373
Business hours : 11:00-19:00(regular holiday/Sunday)


We don't buy IVORY!
about importing an ivory demarketing movement
The international trade of the storing ivory 59 tons in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia since March 18,'99 met again. Only Japan is importing it. If Japan does not import the ivory, 650,000 elephants' lives are saved in Africa. People of a Dr.kambe and a companion active in Africa are doing the campaign said, "I do not buy the ivory. To the point where the elephant is killed>now. I will publish a detailed content of the boycott campaign next time.
We don't buy ivory! Our responsibility,Your responsibility, Let the elphant live!
If poaching comes for the ivory to sell, and to relapse, the elephant will already be gone from the Africa continent.

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