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		<title>Bongo Release News Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first release of 10 Bongo that had been planned and worked on for the last two years has once again been postponed. Two days before the actual release, with all preparations, staff and equipment &#8220;at the ready&#8221; the Kenya Wildlife Service advised us that they wished to postpone the first release until they could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2010/08/26/mountain-bongo-news-release/</link>
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		<title>A Tribute in Memory of Suzanne Bender-Petersen Betterton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(An excerpt from his letter with kind permission of Major Betterton) I attach pictures of my late wife taken during her recent visit to the animal orphanage. I think they show far better than I can express in words the effect of our visit and subsequent involvement with your organization. I don&#8217;t think they show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2010/01/25/a-tribute-in-memory-of-suzanne-bender-petersen-betterton/</link>
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		<title>Father Christmas really lives on Mount Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year it was to be different &#8211; that gift of real, lasting value for your special someone. After all, Christmas is the season of giving&#8230; A mere few days away from prominently displaying your find under the Christmas tree it becomes painfully clear that you&#8217;ve left it too late again &#8211; or did Father [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/12/20/father-christmas-really-lives-on-mount-kenya/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Jolly Good Fellow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times&#8221; &#8211; fitting words of wisdom by famous poet Schiller for the Bongo Boy who quietly left us this summer but will forever remain very special to us. Noah &#8211; once bright chestnut colored, his coat darkened with age. Almost black at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/11/23/goodbye-jolly-good-fellow/</link>
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		<title>Tiny Preemie Deer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sent to us by Sally, a friend of the MKWC, here are some unique pictures: Can you believe this?? You will probably never see this again. A little miracle!&#8230; with all the gloomy news floating out there&#8230; here is a nice nature story that is uplifting&#8230; This tiny deer was delivered by Cesarean section at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/10/17/tiny-premature-deer/</link>
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		<title>Interspecies Adoption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chaircat Duma Duke came across this story of inter-species adoption: A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet cuddle up as if they were family after the baby runt was dismissed by its own mother. Surrogate mum Katjinga, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, took on motherly duties for grunter Paulinchen &#8211; a tiny pot-bellied pig &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/10/05/interspecies-adoption/</link>
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		<title>Morning News from Mount Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The call of the Kenya Wildlife Service reached us at 6.30 a.m. &#8211; three Hartebeest, commonly also known by their melodic Swahili name Kongoni, will be arriving at Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy within the hour. These are no ordinary Hartebeest, however. They are Lelwel or more commonly known as Mount Kenya Hartebeest, a subspecies quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/05/14/morning-news-from-mount-kenya/</link>
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		<title>A Picture Painted by Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wildfires are known to be one of nature&#8217;s most destructive forces but is the charred and lifeless vegetation that remains a poignant ending or a fascinating new beginning? Miraculously, a brilliant spectrum of colours can be seen from afar within weeks. Hundreds of species of wild flowers and plants have reappeared on Mount Kenya dispersed by wildlife [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/04/30/painted-by-nature/</link>
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		<title>Kenya on Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A week ago: When the silhouette of Mount Kenya appeared against the soaring flames of extensive wildfires on the mountain it became clear that mother nature was being brought to her knees. Simultaneously, eight other forests in Kenya were burning ferociously destroying over 70,000 acres of forest, a damage estimated at over $ 4 million. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/04/10/kenya-on-fire/</link>
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		<title>The BBC captures our Bongo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 2004 in retrospect: The BBC amongst other reputed television networks reports the return of 20 of Africa’s rarest and most elusive antelope, the Mountain Bongo, to Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy. 5 years on &#8211; January 2009: In anticipation of a first wilderness release later this year, a BBC film crew has returned to Mount [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/2009/03/24/the-bbc-captures-our-bongo/</link>
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