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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction. Sustainable hunting doesn’t.

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Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

White-chested Tinkerbird is one of Africa’s avian mysteries, known only from a single specimen collected in 1964 at Mayau in north-west Zambia, close to the borders of Angola and the DRC. Benson to collect birds. This image is from Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park, Uganda. Image from Kakamega Forest, Kenya.

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