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I Remember Elephants

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The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf One may say so.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. An illegal hunter in Atewa Range Forest Reserve with his catch, a Tree Pangolin destined for the bushmeat market.

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