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Use it or lose it?

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People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. They want to do this because of jobs and to extract economic benefit out of environmental areas. Sustainable hunting doesn’t.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Africa’s only rainforest canopy walkway in Kakum National Park. million hectares in 2007.

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