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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. Indeed, the proposal to up-list four southern African populations to Appendix I could well have opened a back door to illegal international trade.”. One may say so.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Figures I could obtain indicate that Ghana’s forests have reduced alarmingly from 8.2

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