Talk:Wildlife of Burkina Faso

A fact from Wildlife of Burkina Faso appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 May 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that shea trees, most heavily concentrated in Burkina Faso, are referred to as "women's gold" (woman processing shea nuts pictured) by the locals for their properties?

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Improvement needed

This is surely an important article, but it needs some major quality checks! I don't know about the fauna, but concerning plants, there is lots of nonsense, e.g. shea as an endemic, bougainvillea as a crop and lots of outdated information, e.g. the 1054 spp. --Marco Schmidt (talk) 13:56, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]