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Hippo dung shortages caused by hunting could endanger fish and communities on Africa’s great lakes, study shows [1]

Collapsing hippo numbers – and the loss of dung they produce – poses a threat to the species that thrive in eastern Africa’s rivers and great lakes, and the humans who rely on them.

Publication Date: 
03/05/2019
Independent (United Kingdom) [2]
Tags:
Water Resources [3], Wildlife [4], Rivers [5], Fish [6], Tanzania [7], Freshwater Ecosystems [8], Africa [9], Ecology [10]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/independent-united-kingdom
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[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fish
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tanzania
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/freshwater-ecosystems
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecology