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Africa World Wildlife Fund Travel Program

editor — Tue, 16 May 2017 21:26:07 +0000

Earlier in the day we had watched – from a distance – a pair of adult Kruper’s taking insects to feed youngsters in a nesthole in a rotten pine; we didn’t expect to get to see them any closer than this. But hanging around the picnic site where we had parked our car paid off handsomely. A couple of adults soon appeared and made forays from the low branches of pines on to the ground to hoover up any morsels or crumbs left behind from previous picnics. Largely ignoring our presence, they hopped around, no more than 5 m from

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Africa Wildlife And Nature Travel

editor — Mon, 15 May 2017 19:37:45 +0000

Our Malian adventure had started in Bamako, Mali’s bustling, sometimes steamy capital, from where we travelled by road in a minibus to Segou. On the way we passed women pounding pestles into giant mortars on the roadside, adding water and mixing the resultant brown slurry by hand. This didn’t look much like the skincare centre of Mali but the resulting unpleasant smelling butter’ – made from the nuts of huge Shea trees – is very effective for treating skin problems. At about 1,000 Malian francs (£1.30) a litre, it is used in a huge range of western skin cosmetics that

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