<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/903d4e71-4f51-46a6-a728-46c11ba99e57/3993FF0D-AFAF-471E-8B07-263E5C56DBE1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070612_sudan_wildlife.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070612_sudan_wildlife.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070612_sudan_wildlife.html">More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070612_sudan_wildlife.html"> Decades of war wrought significant damage to the region, along with excessive hunting, <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_060605_desert_peril.html">desertification</A> of the land and periodic droughts, so wildlife numbers were declining in the stricken country. Based on observations in other war-torn nations, conservationists thought the wildlife in Southern Sudan would be wiped out, but it wasn't. <BR /><DIV> Officials told scientists they had seen <A href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/top10_species_success.html">herds of animals</A> in the region.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070612_sudan_wildlife.html"> To their surprise, they counted more than 1.2 million <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070612_kob_herd_02.jpg&cap=Herd+of+white-eared+Kob%2C+Boma+National+Park.+The+darker+kob+are+males%2C+the+lighter+are+females.+Credit:+P.+Elkan%2C+Wildlife+Conservation+Society%2FNational+Geographic&title=Huge+Wildlife+Migration+Discovered+in+Africa">white-eared kob</A>, <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070612_tiang_herd_02.jpg&cap=Tiang+herd+in+the+Southern+sector+of+Boma+National+Park.+Credit:+P.+Elkan%2C+Wildlife+Conservation+Society%2FNational+Geographic&title=Huge+Wildlife+Migration+Discovered+in+Africa">tiang antelope</A> and Mongalla gazelle. They also saw at least 8,000 <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070612_elephant_herd_02.jpg&cap=Herd+of+elephants+in+the+Sudd+wetlands.+Credit:+P.+Elkan%2C+Wildlife+Conservation+Society%2FNational+Geographic&title=Huge+Wildlife+Migration+Discovered+in+Africa">elephants</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070612_sudan_wildlife.html"> "I haven't seen anything like this, even in the Serengeti [Plain, in Tanzania]," said J. Michael Fay, a conservationist</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3993FF0D-AFAF-471E-8B07-263E5C56DBE1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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