How primates and elephants prevent climate change
10 May 2019
If we value the world’s tropical forests, we must protect their animal gardeners, says ecologist Ian Redmond.
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Over the next five years 2000 hippos are to be culled in Zambia, supposedly to stop them giving people anthrax, but the cull may inadvertently fuel the trade in hippo ivory
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