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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

10,000 Birds

201-400 sp: Madagascar, north African countries; European countries; Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, Mongolia. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. 201-400 sp: Madagascar, north African countries; European countries; Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, Mongolia. 801-1000 sp. – 801-1000 sp. –

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Kenyans Seize Huge Amount of Illegal Ivory

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Kenya seized almost 700 kilograms of ivory worth millions of dollars in a night-time raid at the country's main airport. So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed. So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed.

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Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

They occur in three biogeographic regions; the Neotropic, Afrotropic and Indo-Malaya ecozones, basically tropical South and Central America, Africa south of the Sahara and tropical Asia. The next isolated populations are several thousand miles northwards in Malawi, northern Mozambique and the Rondo Plateau in southern Tanzania.

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