10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Africa has more than its fair share of storks, with 8 of the world’s 19 species gracing the continent. Marabous have also learnt another trick, and that is to follow vultures and scavenge off the remains of Lion and other large predator kills. The Saddle-billed Stork has a similar Africa-wide distribution as the Marabou.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
It’s six weeks to the day till I go to Africa, and of late conversations about the subject have taken a reliable and predictable detour. ” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 29, 2008
This situation sounds a lot like the the mountain gorillas, the Congo and Virunga National Park. Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savannah elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, have crashed to just 1,000 animals from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Tags: ivory chad africa poaching elephants.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
Over 150 rangers have been killed on duty in this park in the past decade. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. Many worked for years without receiving a salary. And did you know. Rangers are able to identify individual gorillas because each animal's nose is uniquely patterned.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 28, 2008
He says: "We've not had reports of any gorilla killings. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas. Over the next month he and his staff will conduct a census of the mountain gorillas, hoping to find the population of roughly 200 unaffected by the tempest that has raged around them in the past 18 months.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Pafuri lies in the northernmost part of the Kruger National Park and is described as “some of the most potentially productive birding territory in South Africa” on the SANParks website. It is the heaviest among the rollers in Africa. ” (HBW). .” ” (HBW).
Critter News
JUNE 26, 2009
Dozens of animals have been killed by armed groups at Africa's oldest national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year, park officials and environmental groups said Tuesday. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. They died between May 25 and June 16, he said.
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