After war, wildlife returns to Sudan
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BOMA, Sudan - He grew up here, became a rebel here, and one day recently he was flying low across this vast, grassy savannah in southeastern Sudan, now a park warden pointing out big-tusked elephants traipsing across the landscape.From the window of the small plane, Kolor Pino, who is also a general in the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army, could see a few black ostriches and then a skittish mass of yellowish-brown kob, a kind of antelope. In a place where rebels and militiamen trained and fought for decades, where people suffered and fled and died, the sight amounted to a small mercy.“The animals are coming back,’’ Pino said, a note of satisfaction in his voice.
For years, people here thought of the zebras, giraffes, buffalo, hartebeest, and other animals that once roamed this vast, trackless region as just another collective casualty of southern Sudan’s 20-year civil war. Parts of the area made up a main training base for the southern rebels, who dined regularly, along with locals, on an assortment of bush meat. The more agile creatures - white-eared kob, gazelles, and other species - fled in massive numbers to Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, and northern Sudan.
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