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Is my Rhino Still Alive?

10,000 Birds

We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came, a young – although nine years old White Rhinoceros. Fast-forward to the present murky sky and the 1,215 rhino butchered last year.

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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

I say they were butchered, face-off. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. One may say so.

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