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African green pigeons are being trapped to extinction in the Congo forests by desperate local villagers dependent on the bushmeat trade for survival. Millions of these pigeons are caught in nets, plucked, skewered and smoked before being sent to bushmeat markets. MUST READ: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/29/will-the-congos-green-pigeons-go-the-way-of-the-passenger-pigeon/

Rodnick Clifton Biljon