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One of a number of spent shotgun cartridges I found in the Nsuta Forest Reserve.
The Nsuta Forest Reserve appeared to be almost devoid of diurnal mammals save for a few small green squirrels. The reserve is secondary forest used for logging, as such there's no longer a proper canopy as so many of the big trees have been taken out. This undoubtedly would have severely impacted species dependent on high canopy rainforest. Those mammals that are able to survive in degraded secondary forest, could cope reasonably well with the ongoing logging,
However, they have been all but wiped by commercial bushmeat poachers. Some bushmeat hunting is legal in Ghana, a few common species can be hunted between the 1st of August and the 1st of December with a licence, and the marsh cane rat known as a grasscutter can be hunted all year round. What's quite clear though is that almost all mammal species including those that should be protected are still being hunted illegally.
Monkeys like Lowe's and lesser spot-nosed that should be able to survive in secondary forest, have completely gone from Nsuta, purely because of illegal hunting..This seems to be a problem common to all forest reserves in Ghana, As all wild mammals have become rarer and rarer then poachers have had to venture deeper into protected areas to find them. Poaching is thus a serious problem in all of the national parks as well.
The combination of major habitat destruction and out of control bushmeat poaching has meant that many species that are endemic to this region are now threatened with imminent extinction. During one birding walk through Nsuta we encountered a poacher carrying a single-barrelled shotgun and a bag over his shoulder to contain whatever mammals he might have shot.
Accra Awutu Prison Grasscutter Farm
Heifer Ghana, 2007
Photo by James Grooves, courtesy of Heifer International
June 28th 2010, Rob Campbell got to see and touch The Grasscutters spiffy new solar trailer alongside David Shephard who discussed his many ideas for the future as we got caught up on the past. As you know this innovative green energy lawn care company just recently sponsored a photo contest on Lenzr, and so we talked about green energy and online contest marketing. You can read David's blog about Slimmswitch the winner of the How Green Are You? photo contest, sponsored by The Grasscutters on that website.
19 October 2016, Rome Italy - CFS 43 - Side Event: Grasscutters, clinics and spider plants. The multi-sectoral nature of scaling up production and utilization of nutritious foods; making it happen â some experiences from the field, (Red Room). Committee on World Food Security, 43rd Session (CFS 43), 17-21 October 2016. FAO headquarters. (Red Room)
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19 October 2016, Rome Italy - CFS 43 - Side Event: Grasscutters, clinics and spider plants. The multi-sectoral nature of scaling up production and utilization of nutritious foods; making it happen â some experiences from the field, (Red Room). Committee on World Food Security, 43rd Session (CFS 43), 17-21 October 2016. FAO headquarters. (Red Room)
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On the road to school for baseball practice, I saw these giant rats for sale as 'bush meat'. I guess anything that is an alternative to chicken here in Nigeria, huh?
A grass cutter. Also known as jungle rat.
They live wild in the jungle and are a popular animal to hunt as bush meat. The government is trying to encourage farmers to raise them for the meat market to cut down the bush meat trade.
This one resides at the Don Bosco Trade School where animal husbandry is one of the specialties taught.
They are delicious in ground nut soup. We can confirm that, yes, they taste like chicken.
The ultimate 99p camera was actually £1 from the local Pound Shop but it did come with 2 expired Kodak films!
The test roll had a few interesting lomo try-outs and the picks of the bunch were where the plastic lens managed a rather psychedelic flare effect.
This one was a grasscutter in a meadow looking into the low winter sun.
LeClic 82SL. Kodak Max Versatility 400 (expired 11/2006).
19 October 2016, Rome Italy - CFS 43 - Side Event: Grasscutters, clinics and spider plants. The multi-sectoral nature of scaling up production and utilization of nutritious foods; making it happen â some experiences from the field, (Red Room). Committee on World Food Security, 43rd Session (CFS 43), 17-21 October 2016. FAO headquarters. (Red Room)
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Dan Shephard of The Grasscutters, an organic lawn care business that's headquartered near Oshawa, and services most of southeastern Ontario.
On the road to school for baseball practice, I saw these giant rats for sale as 'bush meat'. I guess anything that is an alternative to chicken here in Nigeria, huh?
The innermost part of Atsuta Shrine. As is the case with most Shinto shrines, there is an innermost area or structure to which the layperson (or perhaps even the priests) cannot enter. Shinto is certainly not the only religion to make extensive use of concepts of separation of space and of different degrees or levels of sacred space, but it is certainly one in which such concepts play a key role.
Like Ise Shrine, Atsuta Shrine has a fairly extensive number of gates and structures and fenced-in areas reaching back deep into the grounds, the last or innermost of which, I would imagine, can only be entered by the Emperor (and perhaps by a very small handful of equivalently important figures).
In that innermost chamber, it is said, is located Kusanagi no Tsurugi, the Grasscutter Sword, one of the Three Imperial Regalia of Japan. Of course, since no one but the Emperor (and, again, perhaps, a few other choice individuals; I'm really not fully sure) can gaze upon the sword, it is not exactly guaranteed that it still exists, or that the sword enshrined today is the original it is claimed to be. Of course, it would be difficult for it to in fact be the Sword of the Gathering Clouds of Heaven, pulled out of the body of Yamata-no-Orochi by Susano-o-no-mikoto, brother of the sun goddess Amaterasu-ô-mikami, unless those gods and monsters are actual historical figures. Still, even if it were to be a genuine historical sword forged in the Yamato period, rumors circulate that it was lost at sea in the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185 ... which would make the current one enshrined here either the original, recovered from the sea; a reproduction; or actually non-existent.
The world may never know ;)
Taken on 30 October 2013 in Nigeria near Ugep Calabar (DSC_3815)
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