Western Fantasia, Ankasa, Ghana
I'm pretty excited about returning to Ghana next month to continue our 'tropics project'. One thing or another (mainly our Isaac and plague) has meant the last time we were out there was in 2019. However since then I-naturalist has developed further so I've uploaded all our moths and butterfly photo specimens from trips in 2013, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and started a Ghana folder
HERE which we will use to populate further next month. Just hope that internet connections in Ghana have improved since then too. Originally the plan for Ghana was to do something similar to the Bulgaria project i.e. purchase a wildlife plot and improve the habitat and use it as a base for recording and exploring but the logistics in West Africa proved to be exceptionally challenging. So this time the objective is not so far reaching but instead to explore for some more difficult bird species in Ankasa and Mole National Parks and getting the moth traps out into habitat and recording the butterflies too.
Sue and I also discovered this weekend that we can't share the same records on I-Nat so I uploaded all my photo specimens from our 2022 West Papua trip
HERE which was fortuitous as I had an extra 100 potential species or so in my folders.
As I've just uploaded the photo specimens it will take quite a long time for the records to be verified to research grade.
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