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 ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) - A baby chimpanzee found alone, helpless, in the forest. An African rock python caged and taunted by villagers until it cracks its skull on the metal bars. A rare shoebill crane, a tall, gray-feathered beauty, discovered in the trunk of a smuggler's car.
Dozens of animals like these are being rescued, nursed back to health and given a home at the Uganda Wildlife Education Center, a kind of halfway house for animals in trouble — wildlife under pressure on a continent where human encroachment and poachers' greed are pushing many species toward oblivion.
"We give them a second chance," says the center's executive director, Andrew G. Seguya.
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