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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

million people (2010 census). 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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