Celebrity trek up Mt. Kilimanjaro will be aired on MTV Sunday to raise awareness of an emerging global water crisis.
The 175 members of the group also will debate the status of African elephants, polar bears and tigers.
Government urged to contain animals as they return to nation ravaged by 27-year war that ended in 2002.
Rural residents in the Democratic Republic of Congo are raising the small, fast-reproducing rodents for food.
Circus animal gets away from handlers, causes a stir during rush hour.
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Willem Wijnstekers, secretary-general of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, said security forces had killed about 200 rhinos over the past two years.
Drought has caused lions and other predators to start hunting livestock from surrounding villages.
Historic island where Nelson Mandela spent most of his imprisonment is being torn apart by rabbits. The solution? Marksmen with .22-caliber rifles.
The Coca-Cola Company, TechnoServe and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide $11.5 million in grants to mango and passion fruit farmers in East Africa.
