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Article: Conde Nast Traveler Announces 2005 Environmental Award Winner Pierre Kakule Vwirasihikya of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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- October 17, 2005
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NEW YORK, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Conde Nast Traveler will award Pierre Kakule Vwirasihikya, a 46-year old native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 2005 Environmental Award. The ceremony will take place at the Readers' Choice Awards -- the "Oscars" of the travel industry -- on Monday, October 17th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Kakule Vwirasihikya has devoted his life to protecting gorillas from extinction. The Congo's decade-long civil war killed an estimated three million people and decimated the country's eastern lowland region, where Vwirasihikya's family has lived for ...