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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

Take an example, Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa. If tourists are too dim to tell Sierra Leone from Botswana or Tanzania, do we really want to rely on them to save Africa’s species? We can’t afford just to let nature be nature any more. Not if we want to hang on to what we have left.

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The Bee-eaters of Africa

10,000 Birds

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. The former occurs from Kakamega Forest in Kenya westwards to Cameroon and the latter from Cameroon westwards to Sierra Leone.

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