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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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