EBOLA DEATHS
An outbreak of Ebola virus sweeping through the north-west Congo has killed 67 people and hundreds of gorillas in the past 5 months. In the Lossi gorilla sanctuary alone, some 500 of the 800 animals have died. The people probably died from eating Ebola-infected bush meat, and villages in the area have been quarantined to contain the disease. Ebola infections are fatal in 90 per cent of cases.
FARMING THE SEAS
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food production system in the world, according to a report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Farmed fish yielded 29 per cent…
