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	ITURI FOREST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Ituri rainforest is part of the tropical rainforest biome that covers equatorial areas of Latin America, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.
		Factors that shape the Ituri rainforest ecosystem are its wet tropical climate, the forest floor soil, the diverse vegetation, and the animal life.
		Steeped in the tannin-rich leaves covering the forest topsoil, the water flowing in the numerous streams that drain the Ituri is the color of strong tea.
	freire.cascadia.ctc.edu /facultyweb/instructors/jvanleer/GEOG/project%20files/geog%20final%20project/Children%20of%20Forest/CLIMATE.htm (493 words)

	San Diego Zoo Exhibit: Ituri Forest
		Ituri Forest is one of the San Diego Zoo's most entertaining places to watch inter-species interactions.
		The Zoo's Ituri Forest habitat is much easier to navigate, while still giving you a feel for the real thing.
		Buildings in Ituri Forest were designed to complement the overall look and feeling of the original African habitat.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /zoo/ex_ituri_forest.html (486 words)

	Ituri Forest & the Okapi Wildlife Reserve - The Woods Hole Research Center
		The Okapi Wildlife Reserve, located in the Ituri tropical rain forest in the northeastern corner of the Congo Basin, is one of the five World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C., the former Zaire).
		It is also home to the hunter-gatherers of the Mbuti and Efe forest people (collectively known as Pygmies) and the farmers of various Bantu and Nilotic ethnic groups, who have inhabited the forest for hundreds of years.
		Today, the Ituri region is the most politically unstable area in the D.R.C., constantly struggling from ethnic and military conflicts (IRIN 2002).
	www.whrc.org /africa/INFORMS/study_sites/Ituri.htm (297 words)

	Peaceful Societies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Much of the year they engage in their traditional forest hunting and gathering, but part of the year they also live with nearby farming villagers for whom they provide labor in exchange for outside goods and garden vegetables.
		The men join their lengthy nets together in a wide arc in the forest, each man stationed near the middle of his net, and the women form a large circle, beating noisily in toward the nets when the signal is given.
		With everyone spread out through the forest in small groups to gather the honey, the Mbuti suddenly realized that a foreign Pygmy group had invaded their territory and were stealing honey from their trees.
	www.peacefulsocieties.org /Society/Mbuti.html (1025 words)

	1996 template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Ituri Forest Grands Placeaux project has had to utilize a unique design to deal with the problems of spatial scale inherent in the juxtaposition of two major forest types.
		Of the 5.8-ha of mbau forest at Lenda for which inventories are complete to date, 408 species have been recorded (302 free-standing species and 106 liana species).
		Although Pasoh, like Ituri, has a dense understory, it appears that juveniles of large trees are a considerably more important component of the small size classes in the Malaysian forest.
	www.ctfs.si.edu /inside1995/hart1995.htm (970 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ituri Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Ituri Rainforest is located in the Ituri region of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Ituri Rainforest is a forest found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as the home of the Mbuti pigmies.
		Rainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall due to the Intertropical convergence zone.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ituri-Forest (358 words)

	Perceptions of forests
		For the Mbuti people of the Ituri forest of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nomadic hunter-gatherer society, the forest is sacred.
		The Mbuti are bamiki bandura, “children of the forest”, enveloped from birth in a rich symbolic tradition that stresses the supreme value of ndura, or “forestness”.
		The paintings are evidence of the Mbuti perception of the forest as the spiritual and symbolic core of their culture.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/y9882E/y9882e09.htm (558 words)

	Ituri Forest
		Ituri Forest is the most complex, multi-species habitat ever developed at the World-Famous San Diego Zoo.
		Guests are transported through a mysterious African rain forest where they encounter okapis, hippopotamuses, forest buffalos, spotted-necked otters and a variety of colorful birds and acrobatic monkeys.
		Ituri Forest gives guests a feel for daily life in the rain forest, including sights, scents, sounds and information about the Mbuti people who live in this dense, tropical environment.
	www.redroaddesign.com /forest/fact.html (343 words)

	Ituri Forest Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		WCS first came to the Ituri Forest in 1986 to study the little known rainforest giraffe, the okapi, with the aid of Mbuti Pygmies.
		Recognizing the urgent need to discover the forest and the unique opportunity to work both with knowledgeable forest-dwelling pygmy groups and Congolese college students, WCS helped found and now manages a research and training center, CEFRECOF, at the heart of the reserve, which has facilitated the work of international researchers and Congolese students.
		Immigration into the Ituri has been increasing rapidly over the past two decades by people seeking access to forest resources, especially arable land, bush meat, gold, coltan, and other minerals.
	www.wcs.org /international/Africa/drcongo/ituriforestconservation (651 words)

	Hart. Inside CTFS, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ultimate outcome of the strife dividing this huge forested land is not yet clear but, for now, the field teams continue work on the ground and the trees grow or die with no national affiliation.
		The forest and plots had escaped the war without significant perturbation; the calls of monkeys, hornbills, tree hyrax, and orthopterans still fill the canopy.
		Field workers in the Ituri Forest remain connected to a project of global dimensions.
	www.ctfs.si.edu /newsletters/inside1999/hart1999.htm (729 words)

	The Forest Is Everything: Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire's Ituri Forest - Rupert Watson; photographed by Wendy Stone
		They maintain a sense of intimate respect for their environment, which they call either "mother" or "father." Quintessential hunter-gatherers, pygmies are most noted for their diminutive stature (the word pygmy derives from the Greek pygmaios, meaning "undersized").
		Their stature enables them to move through the forest with surprising ease.
		Huts must be able to withstand torrential deluges: There is scarcely a dry week in the Ituri forest.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1995/september/Sa14030.htm (355 words)

	Environment
		The Ituri Forest is possibly the largest moist forest remaining in Africa, and is exceptionally valuable for its populations of large mammals.
		Instead of containing one large plot, Ituri FDP is a collection of four ten-hectare plots, two in Lenda and two in Edoro.
		Researchers are exploring the consequences of species dominance on overall forest diversity and the distribution of other tree species.
	www.cid.harvard.edu /esd/programs/forestmgt/plots/ituri_okapi.htm (214 words)

	Ethnology : Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: food avoidances in the Ituri Forest, Zaire. @ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Current Article: Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: food avoidances in the Ituri Forest, Zaire.
		Start / E / Ethnology / January 01, 1994 / Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: food avoidances in the Ituri Forest, Zaire.
		Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: food avoidances in the Ituri Forest, Zaire.
	static.highbeam.com /e/ethnology/january011994/sourcesofvariationinethnographicinterviewdatafooda/index.html (244 words)

	CiteULike: Modeling the sustainability of subsistence farming and hunting in the Ituri forest of Zaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		CiteULike: Modeling the sustainability of subsistence farming and hunting in the Ituri forest of Zaire
		Modeling the sustainability of subsistence farming and hunting in the Ituri forest of Zaire
		Satellite imagery, human population census data, and field measurements were used to calculate Present and projected impacts of agricultural clearing on forest cove: Data on per capita meat consumption and the species captured by hunters were combined with relevant ecological data to estimate ratios of consumption to production and to assess the sustainability of hunting.
	www.citeulike.org /user/Flit/article/148774 (311 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on The Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Forest
		Dissertations, Essays on The Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Forest
		The Pygmies, also referrred as the Forest People, consume much of their goods, and exchange the rest with their neighboring villagers.
		"The Forest is our home, when we leave the forest, or when the forest dies, we shall die.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/The_Mbuti_Pygmies_of_the_Ituri-7294.html (173 words)

	Enlaces Ituri Forest. Viajes e información sobre Ituri Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Features his studies of food taboos among pygmy foragers and horticulturalists in the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		A ethnographic summary of several various groups of hunter-gatherers of the Ituri Forest of West Africa.
		The Zaire River basin, of which the reserve and forest are a part, is one of the largest drainage systems in Africa and has yielded a large number of major evolutionary discoveries.
	destinia.com /guide/odp/Ituri+Forest/68678/es (233 words)

	Rainforest Pathfinder
		Nomads of the Borneo Rain Forest by Bernard Sellato.
		Includes a concise definition of a rain forest as well as the different interactions rain forests have with other environmental aspects.
		A rain forest site directed towards kids: how they can help, what they can learn, and a kids art gallery of pictures of the rainforests.
	w3.byuh.edu /library/curriculum/Rainforest/Rainforest.HTM (982 words)

	Amazon.com: A Walk Through a Rain Forest: Life in the Ituri Forest of Zaire (A Cincinnati Zoo Book): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grade 4-6?The Ituri rain forest of Zaire is the setting for this lovely and informative book.
		Readers gain a real sense of the indigenous people and the extraordinary plant and animal life of the Ituri Forest as they journey with a young boy and his grandparents from their small village to an outlying fishing camp.
		In addition to the numerous close-ups of forest animals, the book is filled with full-color, captioned photos, making it possible for even young readers and children with reading difficulties to gain an understanding of existence in the Ituri.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /fetch/amzn/0531111687 (503 words)

	ipedia.com: Okapi Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is the closest living relative of the Giraffe.
		Native to the rain forests around the Congo River in the north east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it was known only to the local people until 1901; this obscurity led the Society for Cryptozoology to adopt it as an emblem.
		The species name (johnstoni) refers to the explorer Sir Harry Johnston, who organized the expedition into the Ituri Forest that first acquired an Okapi specimen for science.
	www.ipedia.com /okapi.html (373 words)

	Yahooligans! - Science and Nature:The Earth:Ecology:Rainforests
		Toucan Sam's Encyclopedia of the Rain Forest - join Toucan Sam as he takes you on a trip through a rainforest, explaining what it is, who lives there, what kinds of plants you can find, and more.
		Tropical Forest - learn about the climate, landscape, vegetation, and animals of this ecosystem, from the Montreal Biodome.
		Tropical Forests - learn about tropical forests as ecosystems, their distribution and climate, the habitats they contain, and find out how to help conserve them.
	www.yahooligans.com /Science_and_Nature/The_Earth/Ecology/Rainforests (721 words)

	Little Rock Kids - Animal Parks
		In Search of the Ways of Knowing Trail - Presented by the Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Society), this educational Web game about the people and animals of the Ituri rainforest in central Africa complements their Ituri Forest exhibit at the Zoo.
		The focus is the many "ways of knowing" the forest - emphasizing a variety of cultural perspectives and knowledge.
		Through them, you learn about the forest through their eyes.
	www.littlerockkids.com /fun/animal.html (358 words)

	Towles (1993) Asa: Myth of origin of blood-brotherhood among the Mbo, Ituri Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Towles (1993) Asa: Myth of origin of blood-brotherhood among the Mbo, Ituri Forest
		Asa: Myth of origin of blood-brotherhood among the Mbo, Ituri Forest
		Ituri Forest (Congo); Social life and customs; Ovambo (African people); Blood brotherhood; Mythology, African; Rites and ceremonies; Congo (Democratic Republic); Ituri Forest
	www.getcited.org /pub/100063703 (56 words)

	Stanley Fish -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The two lakes have a combined surface area of 970 square miles (2,500 square km).
		People practicing shifting cultivation have been present in the Ituri for 2,000 years or more.
		Most of these peoples, including the Bila, Budu, and Ndaka, speak one of the numerous Bantu languages spoken throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but others, such as the Mamvu and Lese, speak tonal Central Sudanic dialects.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104262 (778 words)

	Ituri Forest & the Okapi Wildlife Reserve: Activities - The Woods Hole Research Center
		Ituri Forest and the Okapi Wildlife Reserve: Activities - The Woods Hole Research Center
		In collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN), we have:
		Evaluate the utility of IKONOS imagery in mapping biophysical variables collected by the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) Long-term Forest Dynamic Plots
	www.whrc.org /africa/INFORMS/study_sites/IturiActivities.htm (228 words)

	AnthroGlobe Bibliography: Foraging Peoples
		Studies of Efe Pygmies and Lese Horticulturalists in the Ituri Forest, Zaire.
		Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior.
		Foraging in Tropical Rain Forests: The Case of the Penan of Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo).
	coombs.anu.edu.au /Biblio/biblio_forage1.html (5399 words)

	Records for Ituri Forest (Congo) -- Social life and customs. (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Records for Ituri Forest (Congo) -- Social life and customs.
		Ituri Forest (Congo) -- Social life and customs.
		Efe pygmies : archers of the African rain forest / text and photographs by William F. Wheeler.
	library.cerritos.edu /MARION/@ITURI%20FOREST%20CONGO/acce00007100/0 (44 words)

	Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Click on the pictures in the forest to discover plants and animals.
		There are 5 places and a stream to visit, with 3 pictures for each place.
		Explore the ecology of the rain forest while you see the forest through indigenous eyes.
	www.newton.mec.edu /franklin/Classrooms/Kramer/Grade%204%20content%20sites/webpages/ecology.htm (150 words)

	On The Edge of The Ituri Forest, 1952 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On The Edge of The Ituri Forest, 1952
		But it goes much further, exploring other musical worlds in what was then the Belgian Congo.
		They may not look as pretty on the outside, but they save money and keep the trash dumps a little bit emptier.
	www.cdroots.com /st-tracey-009.html (200 words)

	Adherents.com
		The most typical of these little people are the Bambuti who inhabit the Ituri region of the eastern Congo...
		Deep within the Ituri forests live an estimated 35,000 pygmies in small family groups...
		They also believe that they please their god by living in harmony with the forest.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_64.html (2247 words)

	Music of the Rainforest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The polyphonic musical expression of the Mbuti shares several fundamental characteristics with their vibrant visual aesthetic, such as improvisation, spontaneity, asymmetry, dense texturing, and complex patterning.
		Just as the sounds and images of the Ituri Forest are evoked in Mbuti bark cloth painting, so is the experience of the forest reflected in their music.
		From the world pop group Deep Forest to Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, several contemporary musicians have drawn inspiration from the music of the Mbuti, Efe and other "Pygmy" peoples.
	www.bampfa.berkeley.edu /exhibits/mbuti/music.down.html (142 words)

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