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Help our ‘super smart’ endangered birds

THE isiZulu-speaking areas of South Africa have the largest population of Southern ground hornbills after the Kruger National Park.

So says Limpopo-based ornithologist Lucy Kemp, who this week won the international Whitley Award for her work on the large black, red-faced birds that, in half a generation, have gone from endangered

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