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Nine West African countries have agreed an $8bn, 20-year plan to save Africa's third-largest river, the Niger.
The programme, which aims to prevent the river silting up completely, was approved at a ...
May 1th, 2008
Word count: 358 |
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Nairobi - IF YOU THINK THAT ONLY THE AFRICAN RHIno and elephant are endangered or a target of poachers, you are wrong. There are many other animals threatened with extinction who, unfortunately, are litt...
April 30th, 2008
Word count: 2020 |
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Nairobi - FOUR YEARS AFTER THEIR repatriation from the US, a herd of bongo antelopes will be released into the wild in Mount Kenya forest.
Wildlife experts from the Mount Kenya Wildlife Sanctuary are ...
April 30th, 2008
Word count: 1007 |
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South Africa's 13-year moratorium on elephant culling was set to be lifted on Thursday to combat a surge in population numbers, despite an outcry from animal rights activists.
The South African govern...
April 30th, 2008
Word count: 724 |
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For ten days rangers of the Masai Mara game reserve took food and water for the young male lion as his body succumbed to poison.
His limbs were paralysed and he was unable to protect himself from othe...
April 30th, 2008
Word count: 632 |
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Both creatures provide an important service in managing grasslands
White rhinos and termites provide an equally important service when it comes to sustaining and promoting biodiversity in South Africa...
April 30th, 2008
Word count: 390 |
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Activists will demand South Africa reconsider Elephant extermination.
As of 1st May, despite widespread international protests, the ban on culling of elephants as a “management practice” i...
April 29th, 2008
Word count: 243 |
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Windhoek - THE Ministry of Environment and Tourism is close to granting an annual black rhino trophy-hunting quota in protected areas.
No such quota has been granted since Cites gave permission for ...
April 29th, 2008
Word count: 257 |
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ZAMBIA is grappling with recovery from the impact of floods over the just-ended rain season, and it is still difficult to quantify the damage caused to infrastructure and food security.
Floods are o...
April 28th, 2008
Word count: 1230 |
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Kenyans could soon start paying for wildlife conservation if current plans by the Kenya Wildlife Service are put in place.
In a bid to boost its conservation budget, KWS is lobbying for a surcharge on...
April 28th, 2008
Word count: 544 |
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo will establish 13 to 15 million hectares of new protected areas, the country announced yesterday at the UN Environmental Summit in Bonn, Germany. These proposed pro...
April 28th, 2008
Word count: 430 |
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Yaoundé - If nature can't adapt to man's aspirations then man should adapt to nature's aspiration. Recent climatic changes in Cameroon characterised by early rains and increased temperatures in ...
April 25th, 2008
Word count: 403 |
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Tanga - An environmentalist has warned against rising human activities in the coastal region saying they are threatening the existence of corals.
Jane Goodall Institute zonal manager Mr Japhet Mwana...
April 24th, 2008
Word count: 213 |
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Windhoek - THE Gobabeb Training and Research Centre (GTRC) plans to establish an ecological restoration unit.
This was announced by a junior researcher at Gobabeb, Taimi Kapalanga, during a presenta...
April 24th, 2008
Word count: 170 |
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Upper Sanaga - A Manager in a logging company has been arrested in the Upper Sanaga Division of the Centre Province for illegally detaining in his home two live chimpanzees, five parrots and a De brazz...
April 24th, 2008
Word count: 353 |
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Kampala - PEOPLE encroaching on forest reserves or national parks will be arrested, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
According to a State House statement, those allowing them would also face arre...
April 23th, 2008
Word count: 289 |
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Apes are on the verge of extinction due to extreme poaching for bush meat and their global demand to be used for scientific research, but there are initiatives to save the endangered species.
There ar...
April 23th, 2008
Word count: 946 |
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In three bordering national parks, covering parts of Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic, the most marginalised peoples have found new revenue sources as ecotourism projects ar...
April 23th, 2008
Word count: 707 |
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DAR ES SALAAM - Norway will give Tanzania $100 million over five years to cut deforestation in the east African country and try to reduce carbon emissions blamed for climate change, according to a deal...
April 22th, 2008
Word count: 320 |
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PORT LOUIS - Despite a demand for more agricultural land, poverty-stricken Madagascar has managed to reduce deforestation by almost half, environment groups say.
Malagasy people cut down the forests ...
April 22th, 2008
Word count: 687 |
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