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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Women gathered their long skirts and hurried for the shelter of stores. We know what those large flocks were like.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. The region also provides food, fresh water and shelter to more than 75 million people of nearly 150 distinct ethnic groups.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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