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The European Union contributed €4.7 million to African Parks, and the Dutch Postcode Lottery gave around €3 million over three years to this organization. [15] Furthermore, about 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), a large portion of the Ennedi Plateau, was designated as the Ennedi Natural and Cultural Reserve by the Chadian government in January ...
The first recorded sighting was by Captain William Hichens, reported in the December 1937 edition of the journal Discovery:. Some years ago I was sent on an official lion-hunt in this area (the Ussure and Simibit forests on the western side of the Wembare plains) and, while waiting in a forest glade for a man-eater, I saw two small, brown, furry creatures come from dense forest on one side of ...
Many scientists have criticized the plausibility of cryptids due to lack of physical evidence, [7] likely misidentifications [8] and misinterpretation of stories from folklore. [9] While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and ...
Darren Naish (b. 1975), British palaeontologist and cryptid skeptic; author of Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths and Cryptozoologicon [1] [9] John R. Napier (1917–1987), primatologist and Bigfoot researcher [1]
Bearilla. Despite the name, Bearilla is not, as one might assume, the cross between a bear and a gorilla. Instead the cryptid boasts the body of a bear and features of a wolf, Coffey told Wave 3 ...
Yeren – man-monkey, cryptid hominid, resides in remote mountainous (China) Yeti – Abominable Snowman, ape-like cryptid similar to Bigfoot, that inhabits the Himalayas (Nepal, Tibet) Yowie – hominid said to live in the Australian wilderness, a cryptid similar to the Himalayan Yeti (Australia)
The Roland Smith novel Cryptid Hunters revolves around a search for the mokele-mbembe and successful recovery of two of its eggs (the only known adult specimens having died beforehand) from the jungles of the Congo. Mokele-mbembe is one of six cryptids sought by comedian and journalist Dom Joly in his travel book Scary Monsters and Super Creeps.
Many African countries change their currency's appearance when a new government takes power (often the new head of state will appear on bank notes), though the notional value remains the same. Also, in many African currencies there have been episodes of rampant inflation, resulting in the need for currency revaluation (e.g. the Zimbabwe dollar).