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PAGE 20 PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, JANUARY 18,1980 Wildlife Report In a bloody 3'vmonth sequel to the Ugandan- Tanzanian war of early 1979, T a n z a n i a n s o l d i e r s slaughtered nearly 14,000 -wtid animals in Uganda - including thousands of hippopotamuses, and scores of lions and elephants- I n t e r n a t i o n a l W i l d l i f e magazine reports in its current issue. Using machine guns and even hand grenades,--liie undisciplined Tanzanian- troops, occupying Uganda as a '-security" force following dictator Idi Amin's over­ throw, wiped out about one third of all large mammals in Uganda's huge Ruwenzori National park, according to the National Wildlife Federation's bimonthly publication. In a signed story titled "I Witnessed a Massacre," Karl G. Van Orsdol, a Palo Alto, Calif., wildlife biologist, tells of seeing one section of the jjark turned into "a gravej^rd of dead and dying animals," with soldiers earning as much as $1,000 a day for killing ten hippos. Ugandan merchants then sold the meat off the carcasses for as much as $2,000 per animal, according to Van Orsdol's account, although there was no acute shortage pf food in the country ar the time. Van Orsdol, who went to africa in 1976 to study lions at the Uganda Institute of Ecology, first saw wildlife killed by soldiers in March of 1979, when Idi Amin's troops, camping in Ruwenzori^ started shooting animals for food. They hadn't been paid in months, they explained. The Institute staff was relieved when Tanzanian troops "liberated" the park, but' within a few weeks "more animals were toping killed than the (Tanzanian) troops could possibly eat," he reports. • _ In mid-June, Van Orsdol traveled 100 miles south to Ishasha, an isolated section of the park. At first, it seemed that area had been spared, and he resumed his Study of lions. "Then," he writes, "while sitting out on the plains in the hot midday skin, I heard a loud rumble in the distance. About three miles south, I saw a large, open-backed truck moving straight toward a herd of resting buffalo. When it approached to within 400 feet of the herd, about ten Tanzanian soldiers standing in the back opened fire with their machine guns. The truck chased the fleeing herd for more than a mile as the soldiers continued to fire. Many buffalo fell to the ground dead or dying, while others limped away to die slowly later." Attempts to reason with the troops proved fruitless. In answer to his pleas, one soldier pointed a gun at V&n Orsdol's head. "He informed me that he could execute anyone who stood in' his way," Van Orsdol recalls. "Besides," the soldier continued, "if you don't let us kjjidhe animals, then we w i l j f r o b t h t ^ p e o p l e . T h e soldier said he hadn't been paid for six months. In July, after deciding he must leave Uganda, the California scientist made a f i n a l h e a r t b r e a k i n g t r i p along the shore of the park's Lake Edward. "We passed carcass after carcass of hippo, sun-bleached, with legs pointed skyward," he writes. "After a three-hour trip, our notebook carried grim statistics: 82 hippos seen alive on the trip, °75 dead." In Augustfthe day before Van Orsdol left the country, he and a Ugandan colleague reviewed their figures on the number of animals killed in the past 3'2-months. Their tally: 6,000 hippopotamuses out of a total park population of 14,000; 5,000 Uganda kob, an orange-red antelope; 2,000 buffalo; 400 topi, another species of antelope; 100 elephants; and 70 lions. That's nearly 14,000 animals out of a total park population of 46,000 large mammals. Some of the lions were killed by hand grenades. The new Ugandan government imposed a five- year ban on hunting a few days after Van Orsdol's departure. According to Van Orsdol, the Ugandan parks are now being adminsitered by a team of biologists that is initiating an ambitious recovery program. "Moral and financial support is crucial," Van Orsdol emphasizes. "With aid from the rest of the world, there's a good chance these Ugandans can suc­ ceed." Goodwill Founder's Day Saturday, Jan. 19 is Founder's day in Goodwill Industries, Inc. com­ memorating the 117th bir- thdate of Dr. Edgar J. Helms, originator of the international rehabilitation agency for the handicapped and disadvantaged, ac­ cording to James Keeling, chairman of the board, Abilities' Center Goodwill Industries. The day is usually ob­ served with an open house in the 167 workshops and the l;200 Goodwill retail operations, but in the Rock- ford area an open house is staged for 255 days. The public, both in­ dividuals and organizations, are invited to visit the Goodwill headquarters at 1907 Kishwaukee street, Rockford, and see the five programs of rehabilitation in action any working day during the year. Goodwill also provides free club presentations with colored slides. 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