Conservationist Stephen Awoyemi talks to Andy Gosler about his first close encounter with birds
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on 14 Dec 2012, Stephen Awoyemi, a conservationist who had mostly worked online was taken bird ringing for the first time. Here he talks about this and his work.Narrative:
Stephen Awoyemi is a conservation biologist who in 2012 had been inspired by nature enough to want to conserve it, but without having had much first-hand experience of it. He travelled from Ibadan to Joss to meet Andy Gosler, who was visiting the A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI): https://aplori.org/ . On 12 December they went bird ringing and Stephen got to release a bird for the first time. The experience made a deep impression on him, as revealed in this short interview. The species here named were all ringed that morning with Stephen.
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Stephen AwoyemiLocation:
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APLORI (AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institue)
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Batis senegalensis (Senegal Batis), Euplectes franciscanus (Northern Red Bishop), Turdus pelios (African Thrush), Oenanthe familiaris (Familiar Chat), Estrilda coerulescens (Lavender Waxbill)Category:
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2012 December 14thOriginal Date Description:
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Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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