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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. But the shocking voice that made the difference and prevented the full protection of elephants was even less expected than the WWF’s stance – the EU vote. One may say so.

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Petrel Paradise

10,000 Birds

Soon we were out of the protected harbour and into choppier waters, and here I have to say I suffered for about two hours from the dreaded affliction known as sea-sickness. We ended up staying out a long time, because there was one conspicuous no-show, the New Zealand Storm-petrel. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana. Africa’s only rainforest canopy walkway in Kakum National Park. What makes Ghana so special?

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