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Written by: Administrator
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Celebrates the Birth of its 100th Rhino     Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Celebrates the Birth of its 100th Rhino We are thrilled to announce that on Friday, Augus...
August 31th, 2008
Word count: 286
Written by: Administrator
BAMAKO - Implementers of an international project to help endangered elephants in Mali want to prove that by doing so, they can also help local communities adapt to climate change in the Sahel. The...
August 30th, 2008
Word count: 749
Written by: Administrator
Nairobi - Poachers are at it again; killing elephants in national parks and game reserves to feed an ivory demand in China, the world's most populous country. So far this year, according to the Kenya ...
August 30th, 2008
Word count: 1188
Written by: Administrator
Nairobi - For close to a decade now, Kenya has been in the forefront in crusading against the push by a few countries seeking to have a worldwide ban on trade in ivory lifted. As a country, Kenya has had...
August 30th, 2008
Word count: 638
Written by: Administrator
The chacma baboon (Papio Ursinus), also known as the Cape Baboon, lived in Cape Town’s surrounding mountains long before its human neighbours took up residence in the area. Conflict escalated as ...
August 29th, 2008
Word count: 2863
Written by: Administrator
Windhoek - THE shooting of three elephant bulls in the Kunene Region will not put the desert-adapted elephant population at risk, says Environment Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. According to her, ...
August 28th, 2008
Word count: 446
Written by: Administrator
The Government has approved nine participatory forest management plans in an effort to increase forest cover from 1.8 per cent to 10 per cent. The plans have been prepared by various communities neig...
August 27th, 2008
Word count: 73
Written by: Administrator
Rob O’Malley sat hunched in the middle of an African jungle made famous by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall. As he furtively watched the object of his research – a group of chimpanzee...
August 27th, 2008
Word count: 721
Written by: Administrator
AFIASO - Rising elephant numbers in a protected forest park in Ghana are angering farmers whose crops are being raided in an unwanted side-effect of a plan to slow deforestation. Locals in Afiaso, a...
August 26th, 2008
Word count: 786
Written by: Administrator
KINSHASA - Poachers in Congo have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa's oldest national park this year as China buys more ivory, the park's director said on Friday.   Rwandan rebels have...
August 25th, 2008
Word count: 341
Written by: Administrator
Submerged hydroelectric reservoirs contain potential gold mines. On the bottom of these lakes, valuable tropical wood is waiting to be harvested. Ghana is the first country in the world that is now explo...
August 25th, 2008
Word count: 499
Written by: Administrator
THE National Forestry authority (NFA) has continued with the restoration of Wambabya forest despite resistance from the local people in Hoima district. In a recent clash outside the forest reserve, a...
August 24th, 2008
Word count: 200
Written by: Administrator
In her first whirlwind trip to the Southeast of Cameroon, US Ambassador, Janet Garvey, garnered enough knowledge to conclude that "this is a wonderful landscape and a groundbreaking program.&...
August 22th, 2008
Word count: 1390
Written by: Administrator
Somerset West - The accidental killing of over 28 Albatross and Petrel species of seabird by local fisheries has prompted the launch of a new plan of action to help preserve the vulnerable birds. Th...
August 22th, 2008
Word count: 487
Written by: Administrator
Harare - THREE black rhinoceros carcasses were found last week in a state of decomposition in the Gonarezhou National Park. Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Phibeon Nyambo confirmed r...
August 22th, 2008
Word count: 328
Written by: Administrator
Windhoek - THE Ministry of Environment and Tourism has placed a moratorium on the sale of carved ivory products with effect from September 1 as a measure to control trade in ivory amulets known as omakip...
August 21th, 2008
Word count: 432
Written by: Administrator
AN elephant was shot dead - allegedly for a local chief's "braaivleis party" - in front of several tourists in the Bwabwata Park in the Caprivi Region last week, causing many of the shocked vis...
August 21th, 2008
Word count: 582
Written by: Administrator
Kigali - A fire that broke out last Friday at about 3 p.m and lasted for close to 38 hours before it was contained on the evening of Sunday, August 17, gutted close to 107 square kilometres in the Akager...
August 19th, 2008
Word count: 323
Written by: Administrator
Gaborone - Lion hunting in Botswana remains prohibited 12 months after government decided to stop awarding hunting licenses last year. Dr Trevor Mmopelwa, the Director of Wildlife in the Ministry of E...
August 19th, 2008
Word count: 261
Written by: Administrator
IPP Limited Executive Chairman Reginald Mengi has said poor countries are economic victims of climate change, and are made to benefit rich countries. He made the remarks on Sunday in Dar es Salaam wh...
August 19th, 2008
Word count: 463
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