Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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Sierra Leone Elephants Africa Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

Photo by Adam Riley (Rockjumper Birding Tours) White-necked Picathartes may also be seen in Sierra Leone, even quite close to the capital Freetown. Ghana’s tourism infrastructure is far more developed than that of Sierra Leone and it is generally a more economical country in which to travel.

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Sierra Leone Ghana Cameroon Equatorial Guinea 274

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

If tourists are too dim to tell Sierra Leone from Botswana or Tanzania, do we really want to rely on them to save Africa’s species? I was in Africa earlier this year and the universal message I got was that bookings were down down DOWN because of ebola. Ebola, a disease ravaging the other side of the continent.

Lions 250

Lions Sierra Leone Hunting Buffalo 250

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The former occurs from Kakamega Forest in Kenya westwards to Cameroon and the latter from Cameroon westwards to Sierra Leone. The most obvious differences are the short tail streamers of Blue-moustached and the paler forehead of Blue-headed.

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Africa Gabon Uganda South Africa 266