I ran into this issue several years ago when I was doing bird surveys with Sahara Conservation Fund in Chad.  The issue was more at a population level,  since hunting by Saudi falconers is a well documented conservation issue throughout Sahelian Africa, but it is more remote and they can’t just dash out there.  I was concerned about it, so  I ended up using fairly generic locations and not documenting numbers.   I did contact eBird at that time, and brought up the issue with them, but obviously nothing has happened, even where the risk is extreme.   I’ve not been able to get much response on other data issues in the region, and I think that whole area of the world is just a low priority, and there’s no one locally to work with. 

John Grettenberger

Olympia, WA

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