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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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The greatest wildlife spectacles in the world! With the Wildebeest migration (calving season is January to February), this park is considered to offer one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in the world. Kibale Forest National Park The primate capital of East Africa! Serengeti National Park. Photo ZGF / Wikimedia Commons.

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Lion Population Decreasing in Kenya

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I've been reading a lot about threatened elephants and primate populations in Africa and wondered about lions. Kenya's lion population has dropped from an estimated 2,749 in 2002 to 2,280 in 2004 and probably just 2000 individuals in 2009. One rarely hears about how they are doing. But, unfortunately, they are in trouble too.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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