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Ghana: Plastics risk choking sacred crocodiles

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Maxwell Suuk
June 16, 2022

Locals in Ghana's Paga region revere crocodiles as sacred. It's forbidden to harm or kill them. But plastic waste is posing a new threat to the reptiles.

Maxwell Suuk Maxwell is a DW reporter based in Tamale, Northern Ghana.
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