Ghana: Hippos Help By Being Helped

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The people of Wechiau in Ghana believe the hippos saved their ancestors' lives. So they set up a sanctuary to protect them in turn. Now the hippos are helping them again: through tourism.

The small town of Wechiau is the capital of Wa West district in the Upper West Region of northern Ghana. It is where you can find a 40 klilometer (25 miles) stretch of land which vilage chiefs turned into the Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary in 1998.

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