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I Remember Elephants

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Indeed, the proposal to up-list four southern African populations to Appendix I could well have opened a back door to illegal international trade.”. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

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Africa’s endangered species

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The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.

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China Gets to Buy Elephant Ivory

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It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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Strangely, the Latin name of the Hair-crested Drongo is Dicrurus hottentottus – Hottentot is a name previously given to the Khoikhoi, a nomad pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa, far away from where this drongo lives. I thought the British see themselves as very fair sportspeople – this is definitely not a good example.

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