Officials estimated that 1, 700 forest elephants remain in the two Cameroonian parks.

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These have included forest trees, trees in urban areas such as parks and gardens, and also young trees in nurseries.

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Nearly 10, 000 square miles were effected by the spill, including a national forest, four national wildlife refuges, three national parks, five state parks, four state critical habitat areas and a state game sanctuary.

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When the wardens feel that that an orangutan is fully rehabilitated, it is caught and then returned to the wild - usually deep in the forest or to one of Sarawak's National Parks or Wildlife Sanctuaries.

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In 2008 Waltham Forest Council in east London set up a 400m exclusion zone around schools, parks and youth centres to tackle child obesity, littering and anti-social behaviour following complaints from residents.

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The parks are closed, a lot of the enforcement people, the forest guards and things, either go back to their villages--they're not supposed to, but, you know, there's nobody doing enforcement, there's nobody doing anti-poaching.

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"Before, we used to record about 30 human deaths because of wildlife attacks annually but in the past few years the figure appears to have risen significantly, " said Forest Ministry spokesman Krishna Acharya who, until recently, headed Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.

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