Wildlife Key to South Sudan's Future as New Nation

Group of giraffes in Badingilo National Park, South Sudan. 

Photo credit: © Paul Elkan/Wildlife Conservation Society.

Ravaged by two civil wars over five decades, the world's newest nation has still managed to retain rich wildlands and massive populations of wildlife -- resources that conservationists say must become as important as oil for the new country to succeed in developing into a stable, economically viable state.

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