To save Europe’s raptors, conservationists say, look to West Africa

Mongabay
Sep 9, 2026, 2:07 am85 ptsTrending
In 2020, a juvenile osprey was fatally shot in Ghana. The bird, one of hundreds of raptors killed in similar circumstances across West Africa every year, had been fitted with a leg ring by the British Trust for Ornithology in Scotland the previous year. Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) were locally extirpated in…

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