Environews Letter

Hello and welcome to Elsa's Environews Letter!
This is where we catch up on all the latest news about our earth,
environment, nature and animals that live among us.
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Paulownia Trees

One of the best kept
is a tree called an "Empress
Tree" or Paulownia. It is a
tree that can grow to full
size in just one season! So
it makes a wonderful tree to
plant where shade is needed
fast! Trees clean out air,
gice birds homes and
provide us with shade.
Please visit the site for this
tree here;
www.paulownia.org

Cell Phone Recyling
Program Seeked ___

An Atlanta based group is
running a cell phone collection
program that enables people
to donate their unwanted
phones to non profit groups
for recyling the phones in a
environmentally safe way.
More than 128 million people
in the U.S. us cell phones,
typically replacing them after
eighteen months according to
one study! The discarded
phones are usually thrown in
the landfills where the toxins
they emit are particularly
damaging to humans and the
environment experts say.

Mass Gorilla Execution

Democratic Republic of
Congo's Virunga National Park
reported a mass execution of
Mountain Gorillas. Three
females wre forund shot on the
morning of July 23, 2007.
Another three are reported
missing and park rangers fear
they have also been killed. Park
staff and wildlife Direct officals
stationed in Virunga's Bukima
camp heard gunshots coming
from inside the dense forest
around 8p.m. on Sat. night. The
rangers conducted a search and
located the Gorillas about
mid-day. The Gorillas were all
close together and all had been
shot.

One of the dead females was a
mother of a three-month-old
baby gorilla, while another
victim was the mother of a
two-year-old animal. The third
gorilla killed was pregnant.
Updated July 25, 2007
Rangers reported today that the
male silverback who was the
head of the gorilla's family has
also been found killed. To read
the whole story please go to:
www.nationalgeographic.com
animal & nature.