Deforestation has cast Moo Deng’s wild relatives into a hostile landscape of cocoa farms and mines.
The playful and pudgy mammal that went viral from its Thai zoo enclosure has a sad story to tell about her fellows hippos.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that pygmy hippos feel most comfortable deep in the forest. Early European explorers to Liberia wrote in their diaries that this hippo chooses to forage at night and conceal itself in the water or in dense vegetation during the day. if someone walks across one of their paths or tunnels , they will abandon that route for a while.
Cocoa production is probably the biggest cause of forest loss, then gold mining and unsustainable logging. These activities now encroach on forest reserves and other supposedly protected areas. Particularly productive forests harness more of the sun’s energy and turn it into lots of palatable herbs and juicy fruits – more food to support animals like pygmy hippos, and so foster rich biodiversity.
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