Margolis invested as well, became chairman, and brought in Miramar Venture Partners and Okapi Venture Capital.

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Discount-cigarette billionaire owns land in Texas, New Mexico and Florida, mostly used to propagate rare animal species, like the pygmy hippo and okapi.

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Its ten-year-old Radio Okapi, run in tandem with the Fondation Hirondelle, a Swiss NGO that promotes free media, has 14m daily listeners, a fifth of the population.

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to exceptional biodiversity and five World Heritage sites: the Garamba, Kahuzi-Biega, Salonga and Virunga National Parks, as well as the Okapi Wildlife Reserve.

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The five sites in danger include Virunga, Garamba, Kahuzi-Biega, and Salonga National Parks, and the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, which are home to a unique range of flora and fauna including the Mountain Gorilla and the Okapi.

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In 1987, Mr. Gilman sent John Lukas, a zoologist who heads White Oak's conservation program, to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to work with pygmy tribes to capture an okapi, an extremely rare animal that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra.

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