Democratic Republic of the Congo was called Zaire. Although what was known as Africas World War had ended in 2003 the Eastern part of the country still has on-going skirmishes between rebel groups and government forces. No other method has reduced species population so dramatically than conflict, when a militia reached the Garamba National Park in 1997 with in 3 months, half of the parks elephants two thirds of the buffalos and three quarters of its hippos vanished. The reason conflict is so damaging to wildlife is the increased use of bushmeat to feed soldiers, the prevalence of weapons, the lucrative industry of selling exotic
Historical quarters of Paris Historical quarters of Paris Most of the Paris we see today is a result of a late-nineteenth-century renovation, but the wide boulevards laid then only bordered and bisected much older quarters of activity created by centuries of Parisian City evolution. For this, Paris has many quarters that are not necessarily mentioned on any administrative Paris map, and many of these spread across several of the city's "arrondissements", so it would be useful to describe each independently of any administrative boundaries. Below are a few quarters that have developed or retained a character of their own, usually identifiable by their commercial