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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

They are traditionally pastoral people, but have from necessity accepted agriculture, fishing and crocodile hunting as means of survival. Game was not plentiful but the highlight was finding a beautiful female Leopard with her cub next to the road, and along the Mago River, a Da Brazza’s Monkey gorging himself on figs. Mursi woman.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Now that the colony is off limits for hunting, the population has grown and the village is benefitting tremendously from entry and guide fees, and a school is being built courtesy of conservation funds. Official estimates suggest that logging is proceeding at about four million cubic meters per annum – four times the sustainable rate.

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