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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley. This is despite the fact that the Northern Bald Ibis was one of the earliest officially protected species, thanks to a decree by Archbishop Leonhard of Salzburg in 1504. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.