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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

In KwaZulu-Natal he collected the type specimens of Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird , White-eared Barbet , Blue Swallow , Brown Scrub-Robin , Short-tailed Pipit and others species. Rudd’s Apalis is a restricted range species that occurs along the Zululand coastal belt. Image by Hugh Chittenden. Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

Criterion (x): The reserve has a higher density and diversity of species than any other Miombo woodland area: more than 2,100 plants have been recorded and more are thought to exist in the remote forests in the south. Shoot a few lions in the Selous and you protect a viable population of African Wild Dogs, a much more endangered species.

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