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Rwanda holds baby gorilla naming ceremony
Sat Jun 17, 11:00 AM ET
KIGALI (Reuters) - Twelve baby gorillas were given names by Western officials on Saturday in a ceremony aimed at attracting more foreign tourists to the tiny central African nation.
Dubbed "the land of a thousand hills", Rwanda is home to nearly 400 mountain gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species, which attracted over half of the country's 22,000 tourists in 2005.
Tourism officials face an uphill battle to lure visitors to Rwanda, where around 800,000 people were massacred in the 1994 civil war.
Representatives from the United States, Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands -- where most of Rwanda's tourists come from -- participated in the baby gorillas naming ceremony, normally reserved for newborn children.
The UK ambassador to Rwanda Jeremy Macadie called one of the gorillas "Big Ben" after London's famous landmark.
"Like the way 'Big Ben' is a major tourist spot in London, this young baby gorilla will be a centre attraction for tourist to this beautiful nation," Macadie said.
Rwanda earned over $25 million (14 million pounds) from the tourism sector in 2005 but hopes to make close to $100 million by 2010.
The first public naming ceremony was held last year when 30 baby gorillas were given local names.
Conservationists and researchers have traditionally named the gorillas they track using the patterns formed by wrinkles on the primate's faces as identifiers.
A 1988 film, "Gorillas in the Mist", based on the work of primate researcher Dian Fossey, who studied the animals in the 1960s, has put the tiny nation on the world map.