Kenya students protest forest plan NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Students blocked a major street and clashed with riot police Sunday in the second day of protests against building plans at one of Kenya's few remaining indigenous forests. Students from the University of Nairobi in Kenya's capital blocked a major street with stones and tree trunks, prompting police to try to reopen the road. When police charged, some 300 students pelted them with stones and other projectiles. Police fired tear gas and beat students with clubs. After nearly six hours of fighting, most of the students returned to their dormitories. The students are protesting plans to construct homes in Karura Forest just outside the capital, one of Kenya's few native forests that have not been cut down. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558275538-0ff> 7 rare Calif. condors released BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) - Born and bred in captivity, seven of the rarest birds on earth tentatively stretched their wings and soared to freedom. The California condors were released Saturday from a foggy Monterey County mountaintop some 2,500 feet above the Big Sur coast, joining 49 other condors now living in the wild in California and Arizona. California condors, among the most ancient of North America's birds, were nearly shot, poisoned and electrocuted into extinction until biologists launched a controversial $1 million recovery program in the 1980s. They trapped all 22 surviving wild condors and brought them into zoos, setting their offspring free in California and Arizona. About 100 are still in zoos, said Sal Lucido, president of the Ventana Wildnerness Society, which helped release the birds. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558282038-0ea>
