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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

10,000 Birds

The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys. On our last visit to the grasslands of Manas we saw not one but two endangered Bengal Floricans in fifteen minutes, with a Pied Falconet thrown in for good measure! Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets.

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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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