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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. Their fragile homes, meager belongings and scant livestock attested to this, and yet the people seemed content with their lot in life.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. Also, four years ago you couldn't put a Google search button on your blog to search only the contents of your blog. People are lazy and want to be entertained. So I failed.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

The tensions run high and protests against the government, sometimes violent, are not uncommon. Yet, protests take place in larger urban centres – places that eco-tourists and birders commonly avoid. The result is a country hurtling towards bankruptcy, with hardly any money to import gasoline, milk, cooking gas and toilet paper.”

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