Namibia begins world's largest census of animals

June 12, 2008 By RODRICK MUKUMBIRA , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- The world's largest land-based census of wildlife began Wednesday across a huge swath of northwestern Namibia, World Wildlife Fund officials said.

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