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LOS ANGELES/KIGALI – Each year in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, around 25 infant gorillas are named and celebrated in the Kwita Izina ceremony, modeled on the country’s baby-naming tradition. The event, now in its 20th year, attracts world leaders, celebrities, and wildlife champions, and the rangers, trackers, veterinarians, and local communities who protect and care for Rwanda’s gorilla population every day.
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Jason Stanley observes that philosophers since Plato have understood how tyrants come to power in free elections. Naming gorillas gives them dignity, or agaciro, a Kinyarwanda concept that has underpinned Rwanda’s development journey, including its approach to sustaining its natural economy. But the country’s gorilla population – now growing at 3% per year – also........
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