i find it really strange that the new york times would have a whole article about a country's efforts to protect a species of apes without ever identifying which country they are talking about. the article refers to a country called "congo" but there are two congos. it's like someone writing an article about some korean government project without ever telling us if they mean north or south.
you can figure it out from the article. the endangered apes are "found only in the Congo basin south of the Congo River." the republic of congo is only north of the river, so "congo" in the article must be the DRC. but i get the distinct impression that the author had no idea that there was more than one "congo."
a lot of people are pretty ignorant about africa. probably most americans are unaware that since zaire changed its name back to "congo" a decade ago there have been two congos in central africa. that's okay, we all have things we don't know much about. but you'd think if you were writing an article about a government's decision, you would try to find out something about that country. or at least just look at the country on a map. the two congos are right next to one another.
UPDATE: aaron did some googling and it looks like the editor is the problem and not the author of the article. stoopid editors.
