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<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4756″ primary_title=”” primary_align=”left” hover_title=”West African killfish
(Epiplatys chaperi) ” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nWest African killfish (Epiplatys chaperi) \u2013 These species have great potential for for aquarium trade.\n<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Piotr Naskrecki<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4761″ primary_title=”” primary_align=”left” hover_title=”Leopard frog
(Kassina arboricola) ” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nA vulnerable species. Photo by Piotr Naskrecki This frog species has marked spots on its body like the Leopard we know. No wonder it is has assumed similar name.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Dan Portik<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4769″ primary_title=”” hover_title=”Atewa dinospider
(Ricinoides atewa)” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nAtewa dinospider (Ricinoides atewa), also known as the Atewa ricinuleid, is a member of an interesting, very old group of arachnids (spiders), found only in Central and northern South America, and West Africa. This species, the largest in the world (10 mm!), is the poster child known to occur only in the Atewa Forest Reserve in Ghana<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Dan Portik<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4775″ primary_title=”” hover_title=”Dragonfly ” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nDragonflies are predatory insects and typically eat mosquitoes, midges, and other small insects, like flies, bees, and butterflies. They are usually found around lakes, ponds, streams, and wetlands because their larvae, known as “nymphs,” are aquatic.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Rapid Assessment Programm (RAP)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_hoverbox image=”4757″ primary_title=”” primary_align=”left” hover_title=”Leptopelis aff. macrotis ” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nLeptopelis aff. macrotis (Possible new species from Atewa)
\nAtewa is haven to diverse frog species. This new one confirm that there is more to this landscape than we have explore.\n<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Dan Portik<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4724″ primary_title=”” primary_align=”left” hover_title=”Green-orange Forester
(Euphaedra zampa)” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nThis is one of over 573 butterfly species recorded for Atewa. In all a total of 711 species are expected to occur, and this accounts for 77% of Ghana\u2019s entire butterfly fauna, making it the most diverse forests for butterflies in all of West Africa (Larson 2006)<\/p>\n

Photo by Szabolcs S\u00e1fi\u00e1n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4771″ primary_title=”” hover_title=”Bushbuck
(Tragelaphus scriptus)” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nThey are forest-edge antelopes. They live in various habitats, including rain forests, montane forests, forest-savanna mosaics, and bush savannas. They are a commonly hunted for bushmeat, in all the habitats they are found.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Rapid Assessment Programm (RAP)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_hoverbox image=”4758″ primary_title=”” primary_align=”left” hover_title=”White- naped Mangabey
(Cercocebus lunulatus)” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nThis is the most remarkable recent discovery in the Atewa Forest. Although there is evidence in the historical record of their occurrence in eastern Ghana, there have been no modern confirmed sightings until 2017, when a small group was photographed on a camera trap in the Atewa Forest.\n<\/p>\n

Photo credit: A. Silwa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4768″ primary_title=”” primary_align=”left” primary_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_title=”Damselfly” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:2″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nThey are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller, have slimmer bodies, and most species fold the wings along the body when at rest.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Rapid Assessment Programm (RAP)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox]

<\/div>[vc_hoverbox image=”4773″ primary_title=”” hover_title=”Atewa Dotted Border
(Mylothris atewa) ” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:24|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ hover_title_google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” hover_background_color=”custom” use_custom_fonts_primary_title=”true” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true” hover_custom_background=”#000000″]\n

\nAtewa Dotted Border (Mylothris atewa) \u2013 This magnificent butterfly species can only be found in the Atewa forest reserve and nowhere else in the world\n<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Szabolcs Safian <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_hoverbox][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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