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GENEVA — A U.N. panel granted China permission today to import elephant ivory from African government stockpiles despite opposition from some countries and environmental groups.
The standing c...
July 17th, 2008
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Nairobi - Kenya's wildlife service says two Chinese women are being questioned at Nairobi's international airport after being found with 36 pieces of ivory.
The women were stopped at Jomo Kenyatta I...
July 17th, 2008
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NAIROBI - A Kenyan court has temporarily halted a US$370 million sugar and biofuels project in a coastal wetland that conservation groups warned would threaten wildlife and local livelihoods.
T...
July 14th, 2008
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Protected conservation areas, previously thought to negatively impact marginalised rural communities, actually attract human settlement — a situation that could risk the very biodiversity that pr...
July 11th, 2008
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Three years after it was first proposed, preparations for an African 'wall of trees' to slow down the southwards spread of the Sahara desert are finally getting underway.
The 'Great Green Wall' will...
July 8th, 2008
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Harare - An environmental catastrophe is looming in most wildlife protected areas in
Matabeleland North due to an upsurge in poaching activities by Zanu PF
militias camped at bases throughout...
July 5th, 2008
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Kenyan environmentalists have told the BBC that the government should revoke a decision to allow a controversial biofuels project to go ahead.
The project involves growing sugarcane for biofuels in c...
July 2th, 2008
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Tunis - About twenty 'Red Neck' Ostriches (Struthio camelus) have recently been
reintroduced in Tunisia 's national parks of the south west in Arbata
(Gafsa), Daghmous (Tozeur), and Jebil (Kebi...
July 2th, 2008
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Windhoek - The Ministry of Environment and Tourism will conduct a wildlife auction of rare and high-demand game species from State-owned game parks towards the end of this month.
The exercise, which...
July 1th, 2008
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Bazaruto - Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland say that the marine reserve of Ponta de Ouro, in the far south of Mozambique, may be declared A World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, S...
June 30th, 2008
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Nairobi - AS THE LARGEST LAND-Based animal, the elephant has the ability to excite strong emotions - emotions that now pit different African countries against each other over whether the beast has more v...
June 30th, 2008
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Nairobi - THEY MAY BE THE KINGS OF the jungle but now, conservationists say, lions in some of Kenya's most scenic parks are reduced to fighting for their lives.
The situation is especially dire in the...
June 29th, 2008
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You may think penguins all look the same, but a computer system on a South African island knows better. It can identify individual birds from subtle differences in their plumage.
The technology cou...
June 28th, 2008
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Nairobi - Increased food production and commercial activities at a wetland in Nandi North District, have not only contributed to the destruction of the environment, but are also a threat to the sitatunga...
June 26th, 2008
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Gorongosa - The Mozambican Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday signed an agreement with the US not-for-profit organisation, the Geoffrey Carr Foundation, on the co-management of the jewel in Mozambique's wild...
June 25th, 2008
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NAIROBI - Kenya should reverse a decision to grow biofuel crops which will threaten wild life on an important coastal wetland, two conservation groups warned on Monday.
More than 80 square mi...
June 24th, 2008
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The government of Kenya, through the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), has approved a proposal to turn 20,000 hectares of the pristine Tana Delta into irrigated sugarcane plantations. C...
June 23th, 2008
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An increased death rate in vultures in Tanzania could be explained by the unlicensed sale of diclofenac for veterinary use in the East Africa region, causing fatal kidney failure in the birds. Vultures p...
June 20th, 2008
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PORT LOUIS - Madagascar has signed a series of environment agreements to protect unique forests and support local communities as part of a commitment by the government to ramp up environmental protection...
June 19th, 2008
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TUNIS - Donors have pledged US$216 million for a fund to protect the Congo Basin forests of central Africa, home to 26 percent of the world's remaining tropical forests, the African Development Bank (A...
June 19th, 2008
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