Breeding Cameroon Hunting Raised 
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2012
Gray-necked or Red-headed Picathartes in Korup National Park, Cameroon. A Gray-necked Picathartes nesting colony in Cameroon. Here local hunters who had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.
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