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ST. LOUIS (AP) - The mighty Mississippi isn't going to be confused with the Nile River anytime soon, and St. Louis certainly isn't rainforest country, but students from all over the world come to this city to study tropical ecology.
Scholars from more than 20 different nations attend the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center, which has an international reputation for its ecology and conservation research and educational programs. It is based at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and draws on resources at the St. Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden, both among the top institutions of their kind.
"We're from the tropics, but we come here to study the tropics," said Cynthia Hong-Wa, 30, who came to St. Louis from Madagascar. "We come here to have a better understanding of what's going on there."
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