UN officials launch “Year of the Gorilla”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME: The “Year of the Gorilla” began Monday — a U.N. effort to raise money for primates threatened with extinction from disease, hunting and deforestation.
Officials for the U.N.-backed Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals said they hoped to raise half a million euros ($630,000) for projects aimed at fighting the animals’ [...]