Although the snake does not fly, it has caught the hornbill, whose home is in the sky. Akan Proverb Apparently not enough, especially in some African countries like Ghana and Cameroon where uncontrolled hunting and habitat degradation is decimating the hornbill population. If you don’t know what hornbills are, I encourage you to read my…
Early this month an article in National Geographic prompted me to re-publish one of my first posts about the amphibian extinction crisis. The article titled Ground Zero of ‘Amphibian’ Apocalypse Finally Found summarizes a research article published in Science in early May. The research article Recent Asian Origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines,…
