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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

10,000 Birds

According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural. Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Despite birding in shattered forests with the constant background whine of chainsaws, the birding is phenomenal, with an incredible diversity and volume of rare and endangered species. million hectares in 2007.

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