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Africa’s endangered species

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More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. The Gray Crowned-Crane is a new addition to the list of the world’s Endangered species, creeping up a category from Vulnerable.

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The Nemesis Cat Defeated!

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For there is no species that I had more comprehensively failed to see than the Leopard. Leopards were problem species for me. The cats are, almost to a species, elusive. No surprise that until this year they were two of the five species of cat I had seen. Leopard camels in Madikwe. I’ll wait). Those paws!

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Into an Uncertain Future

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The crucial factor limiting the maximum baggage is the transport of the entire German population to their new home in the central Saharan desert regions of southern Algeria, Mali and Niger by camel. May 2013 was the wettest May on record, like… ever, with extreme flood events that even killed people.

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