Trip Report – Pangolins & Other Mammals of Ghana – Royle Safaris – February 2024

Earlier in 2024 Royle Safaris director (Martin and his wife Becky) took a quick scouting trip to Ghana with the amazing Robert Naktor to see if Royle Safaris would be able to run successful mammalwatching trips to Ghana in the future. We were successful in seeing 25 species of mammals including white-bellied pangolin (narrowly missing a black-bellied pangolin – due to our own choices, which is described in the report), Buffon’s kob, green monkey, white-thighed colobus, Pel’s anomalure and many others.

We have decided to run our first dedicated mammalwatching trip to Ghana next March (2025) and this will be lead by both Charles Foley and Martin Royle along with Robert Naktor. This trip has been expanded to also include Mole National Park and forests East of the Volta River – where we have chances for Gambian mongoose, Kintambo rope squirrel, red-flanked duiker and Benin tree hyrax.

This 2025 departure is now full, but we can accommodate private tours if people are interested and will also be setting up dates in 2026 for any other interested people. Please get in touch on our email (info@royle-safaris.co.uk).

Trip Report – Pangolins and Other Mammals of Ghana – Royle Safaris – February 2024

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  • samuelmarlin

    Nice report Martin. For sure Ghana is an interesting country to visit and Robert a very good guide. It was great to see you again while there in Kakum. You were more lucky than us in the nb of squirrel species you could observe. Samuel

  • maurice-tijm

    Hi Martin, in the past I have seen Kintambo rope squirrel on a long morning walk in Mole NP. Could be interesting to ask around for the ‘tree squirrel’ there.
    See https://observation.org/observation/110578743/ location not precise at all. Was in a location where the guide went to look for waterbuck

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