Disappearing nature in Africa
Between 1970 and 2020, vertebrate populations in Africa declined by 76%
West Africa’s western chimpanzees,numbers have already dropped by 80% since 1990
9 out of every 10 African forest elephants have disappeared since 1960s
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‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’
On June 13, 1959, the Watha hunter Galogalo Kafonde surrendered himself to colonial Kenya’s “Field Force,” Africa’s first militarized antipoaching unit. For centuries, the ethnic Watha had hunted elep...
