We still chuckle at the dictaphone tapes I sent home from Ankasa, as I tried to record the sounds of the rainforest, sharing my experiences. I distinctly remember rewinding the tapes to see if the noises could be heard and then pressing record once more to try again. Oh course I failed to realise that's it' is difficult to hear a recording of something which is still going on live in front of you. Ankasa Rainforest, Ghana. Over five hundred square kilometers of wet evergreen. Wow, what a sense of disappointment I felt when I was told I would be spending a month there. I soon came to realise how wrong I had been. It never ceased to surprise me how quickly the climate changed as we turned off the main road and drove towards the
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