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Society | Economy - Development Mauritius breeders hit back at UK campaign afrol News - Over the last weeks, UK animal welfare activists have flooded the web with "shocking pictures" of cruelty against macaque monkeys trapped and bred in Mauritius. Local firms now hit back, documenting they take animal welfare seriously. |
| Mauritius Society | Economy - Development BUAV answers to Mauritius campaign reporting afrol News - The UK activist group BUAV, which is running a campaign against alleged mistreatment of monkeys by Mauritian breeders, threatens afrol News with "legal consequences" over its reporting of the conflict. |
Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development Réunion Island sees strong tourism recovery afrol News - The tourism industry on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion reports record bookings for the upcoming season, with almost full-booked hotels. The upturn comes after years of crisis. |
Science - Education | Environment - Nature Coral deaths reach Mayotte, Comoros afrol News - Scientists find that the corals on the Comoran island Mayotte are rapidly bleaching, which leads to a death of the reef. The situation on Mayotte was "the worst seen in the Indian Ocean," they report. |
Economy - Development | Politics | Travel - Leisure Indian Ocean tourism cooperation limping afrol News - Mauritius, Seychelles, Réunion and Comoros; together these Indian Ocean islands could be a powerful travel destination by a united marketing drive. But main players admit high-profiled cooperation talks are only empty words. |
Society | Environment - Nature Tortoise poaching boosted by Malagasy chaos afrol News - With the political chaos in Madagascar, reports of environmental crimes are also booming. In addition to increased deforestation, also Madagascar's four endemic tortoise species are being decimated. |
Economy - Development | Politics Piracy forces Comoros into French military coop afrol News - After an 11-year suspension, France and Comoros have signed a new military cooperation agreement in response to the ever-approaching Somali pirates. At the same time Comoros condemned France in the UN. |
Environment - Nature | Travel - Leisure Seychelles opens 1st "carbon neutral reserve" afrol News - Cousin Island in Seychelles is launched as the world's first "carbon neutral natural reserve" at the national 2010 Tourism Expo. Eco-tourists flying in from overseas are assured their flights' CO2 emissions are reduced elsewhere. |
Politics Ice front between SADC, Madagascar afrol News - The Southern African Development Community (SADC), where Madagascar is a suspended member country, is leading efforts to have Madagascar's coup government diplomatically isolated. They succeeded to gag Madagascar at the UN. |
Science - Education Mauritius seeks 100,000 foreign students afrol News - Fancy to study on the cosy Indian Ocean island of Mauritius? The Mauritian government is now building infrastructure to receive 100,000 more foreign students by 2020. |
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