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The Whistle Blowers

10,000 Birds

The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. The National Trust of the Cayman Islands describes the success story as follows, “Willlie grows fruit and vegetables and raises pigs, and he noticed that the ducks were nibbling at the pig food.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

We actually spent considerable time searching unsuccessfully for this highly sought-after bird; however I did suspect they were not gone, as several hunters I interviewed knew the bird and claimed it still existed. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008.

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