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Congo Officer Arrested for Baby Chimp Sales

Critter News

ICCN (Congolese Wildlife Authority) rangers received a tip-off that someone in Goma was trying to sell a baby gorilla. He has been implicated in poaching incidents in Rwindi and more importantly there is strong evidence that he is a ringleader in the illegal charcoal trade. No wonder wildlife trafficking is such a problem.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. And wow, what a trip we had! What makes Ghana so special?

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