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» 10.12.2010 - Central African Rep clamps down on poachers
» 08.12.2010 - Mountain gorilla population recovering
» 29.11.2010 - South Africa avoids climate leadership
» 20.11.2010 - Mozambique smelter ignores pollution limits
» 16.11.2010 - Mauritania protects unique flamingo colony
» 11.11.2010 - "Conserving Nigeria's forests pays off"
» 02.11.2010 - Cameroon "new gorillas" need protection
» 19.10.2010 - Coral deaths reach Mayotte, Comoros
» 11.10.2010 - Most Kenyans say no to cleaner energy
» 07.10.2010 - Niger radioactive waste given "back to EU"
» 07.10.2010 - Cape Verde gets Africa's first giant wind farm
» 05.10.2010 - Cameroon timber exports to get license
» 01.10.2010 - Botswana independence festivities moved by rare birds
» 30.09.2010 - Tortoise poaching boosted by Malagasy chaos
» 28.09.2010 - Seychelles opens 1st "carbon neutral reserve"
» 15.07.2010 - East African national parks see mammals' decline
» 09.07.2010 - SA botany now has vuvuzelas
» 02.07.2010 - Angola drilling ever deeper, hoping for the best
» 01.07.2010 - Central African bushmeat hits European market
» 01.07.2010 - Warmer Lake Tanganyika threatens fisheries
» 17.06.2010 - Ghana boom in dangerous e-waste imports
» 09.06.2010 - Madagascar political chaos causing forest extinction
» 07.06.2010 - SA vultures killed to predict World Cup winner
» 04.06.2010 - Congo gorilla babies prepared for new airlift
» 28.05.2010 - Maghreb emerging from record dry century
» 26.05.2010 - Gabon hopes for cash for forest protection
» 14.05.2010 - Nile water resource dispute splits region
» 12.05.2010 - Biodiversity in Africa's protected areas declining fast
» 08.04.2010 - Green economy strategies discussed
» 31.03.2010 - Prehestoric snakes still alive in Madagacar
» 26.03.2010 - CAR govt hits back at poachers
» 26.03.2010 - Rare lemurs found in Madagascar forests
» 26.03.2010 - Mozambique strengthen ties with Viet Nam
» 25.03.2010 - Strengthen measures to protect forests, FAO
» 24.03.2010 - Central African gorillas towards extinction
» 22.03.2010 - Tanzania, Zambia ivory sales request fails
» 19.03.2010 - Africa advised against coal power
» 18.03.2010 - Africa still home to two-thirds of world’s slum population
» 17.03.2010 - Sweden to help SA develop clean energy
» 17.03.2010 - Central African ivory main problem
» 12.03.2010 - Tanzania, Zambia "too corrupt to trade ivory"
» 12.03.2010 - Illegal logging "funding Madagascar coup govt"
» 05.03.2010 - Indian Ocean fisheries deal disappoints East Africa
» 04.03.2010 - Ethiopian project sets world climate change example
» 04.03.2010 - Africa’s green energy under-exploited
» 01.03.2010 - Massive Pharaoh’s head unearthed
» 18.02.2010 - Rwanda hosts 2010 global environment day
» 16.02.2010 - Devise local strategies to fight climate change
» 15.02.2010 - Ethiopia and UK leaders to head climate change team
» 11.02.2010 - Kenya ferries park herbivores to feed starving lions
» 09.02.2010 - Herders receive support to improve pastoral resources
» 08.02.2010 - $700 million secured for Climate Action
» 08.02.2010 - Nigeria approves hydro power plant
» 04.02.2010 - Tarring scenic Lesotho-SA mountain pass causes protest
» 02.02.2010 - "Green Fund" for climate change financing
» 02.02.2010 - BirdLife cares for wetlands
» 19.01.2010 - Online consultations to help poor nations’ energy strategy
» 19.01.2010 - Killer malaria found in gorillas
» 14.01.2010 - Ethiopia launches hydro-power plant
» 14.01.2010 - Rising electricity demand boosts the African wind turbine market, study
» 14.01.2010 - Grasslands alternative to fighting climate change
» 11.01.2010 - Sierra Leone government bans logging
» 08.01.2010 - World celebrities climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds
» 07.01.2010 - UN strikes biodiversity deal with African soccer giants
» 04.01.2010 - DRC population still unharmed by volcano
» 04.01.2010 - Rhino poachers arrested in Kenya
» 22.12.2009 - Tea prices to stabilise with normal weather in 2010
» 22.12.2009 - Kenya to counter Tanzania's Ivory sales proposal
» 21.12.2009 - East Africa records highest number of new plant species
» 21.12.2009 - Environmentalists fight developments in Tana River
» 17.12.2009 - Seychelles appeals for small islands' right to exist
» 16.12.2009 - Climate change deal must address hunger, UN expert
» 16.12.2009 - DRC conservation initiative receives international recognition
» 15.12.2009 - Clean energy fund for poor countries launched in Copenhagen
» 15.12.2009 - Experts reach conclusion to limit trade on aquatic animals under CITES
» 14.12.2009 - Africa needs stronger regional cooperation, Janneh
» 10.12.2009 - UN emergency response fund gets record support
» 01.12.2009 - INTERPOL-Africa operation seize illegal Ivory
» 30.11.2009 - African climate policy centre receives $8.5 million from Sweden
» 27.11.2009 - $39 million injected to improve Ethiopia’s pastoralists lives
» 25.11.2009 - UN makes $6 million for Madagascar’s cyclone forecasts
» 24.11.2009 - A quarter of world population live without electricity
» 24.11.2009 - Kenya to end power shortages
» 23.11.2009 - Africa lost 15 percent of GPD to climate change says report
» 20.11.2009 - Ghana-EU sign first voluntary agreement on legal timber exports
» 19.11.2009 - Preserve water sources - report
» 18.11.2009 - Nigerian fishermen flee Bakassi Peninsula
» 11.11.2009 - Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
» 09.11.2009 - Campaign against plundering of W/Sahara resources launched
» 09.11.2009 - Traffic jams weighs heavily on Kenya’s economy
» 05.11.2009 - It's confirmed: New ocean to split Ethiopia
» 03.11.2009 - Africa plays it tough at climate talks
» 02.11.2009 - Giant Sahara sun power project kicks off
» 02.11.2009 - Turkish shipwreck pollutes Madagascar coast
» 30.10.2009 - Rescue operation for Zimbabwe's abused elephants announced
» 26.10.2009 - Report outlines ways to help developing nations transition to ‘green’ economy
» 26.10.2009 - Natron community vows to protect the lake
» 23.10.2009 - Africa told to enhance actions to reduce disaster risk
» 23.10.2009 - Desert locusts in Mauritania not a threat to other states
» 23.10.2009 - ITU approves new universal mobile phone charger
» 21.10.2009 - Ghana and Burkina Faso urged to develop strategies on use of Volta River
» 20.10.2009 - SA and Tunisia get Swiss funding for clean energy projects
» 20.10.2009 - DRC and Morocco elected to new forest financing programme
» 19.10.2009 - Africa's climate change negotiators meet in Ethiopia
» 19.10.2009 - African countries conclude gender and climate change training
» 16.10.2009 - SA teams up with neighbours for a clean environment
» 16.10.2009 - Shrinking of Lake Chad could spell regional catastrophe
» 15.10.2009 - Kibaki appeals for unity ahead of global summit
» 13.10.2009 - Conservation expert calls for protection of Africa's forest gardeners
» 12.10.2009 - Lake Nakuru becomes Africa's first IBA-branded National Park
» 08.10.2009 - Environmentalists condemn Mozambique's planned damming of Zambezi
» 08.10.2009 - Uganda set new sights to reach safe water targets
» 07.10.2009 - Uganda commits to reforestation
» 07.10.2009 - USAID awards $387,000 for indigenous health in Ethiopia
» 06.10.2009 - Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
» 05.10.2009 - Lesotho signs $25 million agreement with WB
» 02.10.2009 - West African biodiversity corridor high on Abidjan meeting
» 01.10.2009 - Brazzaville calls on US to support preservation of the Congo Basin
» 30.09.2009 - Climate change could induce more food dependency on Africa, FAO paper
» 29.09.2009 - Zimbabwean communities educated about owls
» 25.09.2009 - Leaders call for UN support on Africa's development
» 24.09.2009 - Diageo commits more funding to West Africa's access to clean water
» 23.09.2009 - Malagasy NGOs unite against plunder of natural resources
» 22.09.2009 - Local group makes mark at Egypt's Lake Qarun
» 22.09.2009 - Ban calls for global collective action on climate change
» 21.09.2009 - Four African states part of the Bern Convention's 30 years
» 18.09.2009 - SA’s first electric car on display
» 16.09.2009 - WHO warns of possible after floods health disaster in W/Africa
» 16.09.2009 - North America hailed for plan to regulate greenhouse
» 11.09.2009 - Kenya preparing for impact of possible torrential rains
» 09.09.2009 - Kenya launches appeal to save Mau forest
» 08.09.2009 - Norway announces euro 350 support for developing countries
» 08.09.2009 - More people affected by West African floods
» 04.09.2009 - International call to learn to love vultures - or lose them
» 01.09.2009 - Treaty to eliminate illegal fishing penned
» 01.09.2009 - Africa hosts special session on climate change concerns
» 01.09.2009 - African states make rankings for low sulfur diesel limits
» 26.08.2009 - Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
» 26.08.2009 - Bringing technology and agronomic knowledge to African farmers
» 24.08.2009 - African journalists join the climate change campaign
» 24.08.2009 - African ministers building one voice towards climate change summit
» 18.08.2009 - New report offers solutions to water and sanitation service delivery
» 13.08.2009 - South Sudan most hit by global meltdown, UN official
» 07.08.2009 - Lesotho govt to also investigate industrial pollution
» 07.08.2009 - Madagascar’s food security remains vulnerable
» 05.08.2009 - Former border agent sentenced on Tanzanian Leopard Tortoises case
» 04.08.2009 - World bank signs first biocarbon agreement in DRC
» 04.08.2009 - Southern Africa to experience a flood of renewable energy projects
» 03.08.2009 - Lesotho’s blue rivers to be investigated
» 30.07.2009 - Angola gets UN support to boost access to water
» 28.07.2009 - Six African countries targeted in UN’s cleaner cooling project
» 27.07.2009 - Madagascar’s humanitarian appeal revised down
» 20.07.2009 - Rare gorillas flee to DRC
» 26.06.2009 - WB approves $3.5 million climate change fund for Liberia
» 26.06.2009 - Sudan ready for biofuels
» 19.06.2009 - Uganda could be a dessert in 40 years
» 18.06.2009 - Elephant rescue resumes in Malawi
» 17.06.2009 - Water shortages could frustrate efforts to control cholera – Minister
» 08.06.2009 - Conservationists call for action against illegal logging
» 08.06.2009 - Rescue operation of Malawi elephants on good start
» 05.06.2009 - Epic rescue for endangered elephants in Malawi resumes
» 05.06.2009 - Mahale Ecosystem research project launched
» 04.06.2009 - European bank withdraws funding from Ethiopia’s dam
» 27.05.2009 - Madagascar selected to benefit from conservation fund
» 26.05.2009 - Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
» 26.05.2009 - SADC discuss strategies of enhancing ground water resources to fight poverty
» 21.05.2009 - Congo Basin forest management "successful"
» 14.05.2009 - UN report urges for reforms to avert food crisis in Africa
» 11.05.2009 - Kenya villagers join global greenhouse project
» 08.05.2009 - DRC in the face of another volcanic eruption
» 05.05.2009 - Green revolution must empower farmers, Migiro asserts
» 30.04.2009 - Kenya wildlife on rapid decrease
» 30.04.2009 - Climate change increases Zambia cholera numbers
» 29.04.2009 - Two African projects named winners of climate grants
» 28.04.2009 - Guinea to relieve pressures in mining sector
» 27.04.2009 - Kenya's Ivory smugglers makes guilty plea
» 20.04.2009 - Uganda celebrates big earnings from gorilla tourism
» 17.04.2009 - Century of drought again to haunt West Africa
» 16.04.2009 - Kigali to improve water treatment and management
» 15.04.2009 - Congo spirits win environmental battle
» 07.04.2009 - Kenyan fisherman arrested in disputed Migingo island
» 06.04.2009 - Tunisia launches energy saving programme
» 30.03.2009 - Two new sea rescue centres opened in SADC region
» 24.03.2009 - Kenya deploys security officers to help fight wild fires
» 23.03.2009 - Wild fire forces animals to flee Kenya forest
» 20.03.2009 - Help farmers grow more food with less water, Diouf
» 16.03.2009 - Coca-Cola commits US$30 million for clean water in Africa
» 24.02.2009 - Elephant poachers arrested in Kenya
» 23.02.2009 - Burundi calls for protection of Nile River
» 19.02.2009 - Cameroon creates park to conserve threatened species
» 26.01.2009 - Google Earth reveals hidden environment treasure in Mozambique
» 22.01.2009 - Ghana develops policy to conserve river basins
» 19.01.2009 - Save Congo's remaining forests
» 13.01.2009 - Landslide kills 6 in Algeria
» 25.12.2008 - South African birdwatchers thrilled by discovery
» 18.12.2008 - Africa commits to water development to fight hunger
» 15.12.2008 - Africa summit discuss massive hydro scheme for food and energy security
» 12.12.2008 - East African soon to use geothermal energy
» 10.12.2008 - African urban ecology under-studied
» 01.12.2008 - Cautious conservation of wetlands is critical for economic growth
» 25.11.2008 - Tuna commission criticised for endorsing high quotas
» 17.11.2008 - Largest ever Africa bust on wildlife crime
» 14.11.2008 - SA wildlife paradise "endangered"
» 06.11.2008 - Animal right activists criticise ivory sale in SA
» 27.10.2008 - Conservationists cry foul of Southern Africa ivory auction
» 25.10.2008 - New coral reef discovered in Seychelles
» 23.10.2008 - Two jailed for toxic dumping, but oil company sparred
» 22.10.2008 - SADC groundwater and drought management website launched
» 21.10.2008 - Massive African ivory sales increase poaching fears
» 14.10.2008 - "Drastic decline" of Ivorian chimps
» 14.10.2008 - NCAP requests Ghana to act against water company
» 13.10.2008 - Green Sahara more common than thought
» 13.10.2008 - Ibadan Malimbe sighted in Nigeria's newest proposed IBA
» 08.10.2008 - Whales, dolphins and manatees win protection off West Africa waters
» 07.10.2008 - Small space rock expected over Sudanese sky
» 29.09.2008 - Ivorians tried for mass poisoning
» 26.09.2008 - $90,000,000 for delivery of biospheres to Africa
» 24.09.2008 - African forestry firm secures HSBC investment
» 16.09.2008 - Blanket ban on bushmeat disastrous
» 08.09.2008 - Africa profits from greenhouse gas offset scheme
» 05.09.2008 - Scores die in Mozambican veld fires
» 03.09.2008 - SA wild fires death toll rises to 40
» 03.09.2008 - Battle of flamingo dam - scientists axed
» 28.08.2008 - Climate change threatens Africa
» 26.08.2008 - Millions of Africans may face water deficit
» 22.08.2008 - The truth about Avian Influenza
» 21.08.2008 - Accra meeting hopes to strike climate negotiations deal
» 20.08.2008 - Namibia sanctions ivory trade
» 13.08.2008 - Ghana needs $1.4 billion to fight climate change
» 12.08.2008 - Conservation to set up standard language
» 08.08.2008 - South Africa gives Zambia 500 elephants
» 07.08.2008 - Sudan busts illicit ivory trade
» 07.08.2008 - Two indicted for smuggling leopards hides and skull
» 07.08.2008 - Fears of downward gorilla populations erased
» 06.08.2008 - 18,000 South African seabirds killed annually
» 06.08.2008 - Egypt cancels Agrium fertilizer plant
» 05.08.2008 - African drought linked to warmer Indian Ocean
» 02.08.2008 - "African elephants extinct by 2020"
» 29.07.2008 - Mozambican women eaten by lions
» 22.07.2008 - Worst floods hit Liberia
» 17.07.2008 - Court halts Kenya's proposed sugar project
» 16.07.2008 - China gets a share in Africa’s ivory stockpiles
» 14.07.2008 - Egypt gives priority to water and sanitary schemes
» 10.07.2008 - Can Africa's biodiversity survive climate change?
» 10.07.2008 - Flamingos under threat in SA
» 08.07.2008 - Slow progress on phasing out leaded petrol in SADC
» 24.06.2008 - Tana's wildlife in Kenya at risk
» 20.06.2008 - Tanzania vulture deaths may cause epidemic risks
» 17.06.2008 - Madagascar gets US$ 20M to protect nature
» 16.06.2008 - Morocco secures wind farm investment
» 16.06.2008 - Floods kill 6 in Somalia
» 12.06.2008 - Western Sahara-bound fishing vessel hijacked
» 04.06.2008 - Pollution scandal hits holiday island Réunion
» 29.05.2008 - Coastal erosion displacing Liberians
» 27.05.2008 - "Pygmies" enter Congo Basin timber industry
» 23.05.2008 - Central Africa's "Pygmies" gain from ecotourism
» 13.05.2008 - Tata withdraws Natron report
» 05.05.2008 - Tana biofuel could be illegal
» 02.05.2008 - Niger River to be rescued
» 28.04.2008 - Sahel nations lose 1.7m ha land
» 11.04.2008 - S. Africa avitourism viable
» 03.04.2008 - Climate change threatens Africa
» 28.02.2008 - Lapwings tracked to Sudan
» 26.02.2008 - SA elephant cull condemned
» 05.02.2008 - Global warming affects Africa
» 31.01.2008 - Illegal ivory trade still rampant
» 29.01.2008 - Communities reject soda plant
» 28.01.2008 - Denmark unveils Africa plan
» 24.01.2008 - Court backs Zambian satirist
» 21.12.2007 - African climate change: Blooming Sahara or hunger and war?
» 28.11.2007 - Cameroon gorilla saga over
» 27.11.2007 - Tanzania ecotourism threatened
» 22.11.2007 - Queen lauds Uganda peace
» 21.11.2007 - Hyenas kill Kenya lion killer
» 15.11.2007 - Gambia hippos destroy crops
» 12.11.2007 - SA tops African fishing
» 02.11.2007 - All South African industries increase turnover
» 31.10.2007 - Conservationists applaud Uganda
» 19.10.2007 - Conflict over Malagasy mine
» 19.10.2007 - Uganda conserves habitat
» 16.10.2007 - African conservationists oppose flamingo extinction
» 23.08.2007 - Angola: Luanda's residents drink suspect water
» 27.07.2007 - DRC: Cry over gorilla executions
» 16.07.2007 - Lake Victorious: weevils defeat water hyacinths
» 11.07.2007 - Togo's costly water project gets funding
» 09.07.2007 - South Africa's deteriorating environment: a cause for concern
» 29.06.2007 - South Africa fails to get World Heritage listing
» 27.06.2007 - Madagascar's Atsinanana rainforest is world heritage
» 04.06.2007 - Most African countries fear renewed ivory trade
» 01.06.2007 - Tanzanian timber looted by criminals
» 29.05.2007 - New Kenya atlas connects poverty and ecosystem
» 29.05.2007 - 34,000 seabirds killed annually in Africa
» 22.05.2007 - Kenya wildlife attack kills 7
» 21.05.2007 - More birds than ever face extinction
» 15.05.2007 - Southern Africa’s untold elephant story
» 12.05.2007 - Asian syndicates fuel illegal ivory surge
» 26.04.2007 - Senegal survey discovers raptor ‘super-roost’
» 23.04.2007 - Zambian bags Nobel Prize
» 11.04.2007 - South African mining company banned as "unethic"
» 27.03.2007 - Zimbabwean elephant kills 2 British tourists
» 23.03.2007 - Malawi to roll out 'fertiliser trees' project
» 22.03.2007 - Hot weather declines Ghana water bodies
» 13.03.2007 - EU nets fisheries deal with São Tomé
» 09.03.2007 - Congo joins regional effort to save forests
» 28.02.2007 - New study counters bid to commercialise ivory
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique plans more dams on the Zambezi
» 22.02.2007 - "Mystery bird" found in Senegal park
» 14.02.2007 - Ghana's local fishermen pay the price of overfishing
» 22.01.2007 - Madagascar protects "spectacular" wetlands
» 15.01.2007 - More African nations use DDT to cut malaria death toll
» 05.01.2007 - Guinea declares Africa's 1st vulture sanctuary
» 05.01.2007 - Gambia to produce renewable energy
» 04.01.2007 - Gabon gets recognition of Africa's first forest certificates
» 14.12.2006 - Deadly infection hits Zambezi fish
» 08.12.2006 - Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
» 23.11.2006 - India gives West Africa US$ 250m to develop biofuels
» 17.11.2006 - Climate: "This is not Kenya as I remember it"
» 17.11.2006 - Scientists predict next Ebola outbreak
» 16.11.2006 - SA World Cup airport "threatens millions of birds"
» 14.11.2006 - Victoria Falls could lose World Heritage status
» 10.11.2006 - Early hominids eradicated African competitor
» 06.11.2006 - Global fisheries collapse to hit Africa first
» 06.11.2006 - Brazil, India join Senegal in biofuel production
» 03.11.2006 - Comoros gets regional fisheries monitoring centre
» 30.10.2006 - Seychelles considers reclaiming more land
» 20.10.2006 - Zambia's Kabwe: world's most polluted place
» 10.10.2006 - Oil sector in Guinea-Bissau to avoid pollution scandals
» 10.10.2006 - Comoros volcano polluted island water source
» 06.10.2006 - Botswana, US sign 'Debt-for-Nature' agreement
» 14.09.2006 - Congo timber to be environmentally certified
» 08.09.2006 - UN probes dumping of deadly toxic wastes Côte d’Ivoire
» 07.09.2006 - Ivorian govt resigns over toxic fumes scandal
» 07.09.2006 - Rénuion's rare cuckooshrike again recovering
» 04.09.2006 - Black rhino numbers finally rising in Kenya
» 07.06.2006 - "Uncertain future for Malawi's forests"
» 02.06.2006 - Liberia "not ready" for lift of timber, diamond sanctions
» 01.06.2006 - Comoros volcano eruption over for now
» 23.05.2006 - Satellites reveal marine turtles' migrations
» 02.05.2006 - Ecology of Botswana's Okavango Delta deteriorating
» 28.04.2006 - "Hermaphrodite" hyenas give cubs hormonal kick-start
» 11.04.2006 - Cameroon "should involve locals" to control logging
» 10.04.2006 - Malawi experts warn of severe flush floods
» 07.04.2006 - South African mole rats: Proudly lazy
» 06.04.2006 - Angola's illegal tusk trade "doubled in one year"
» 08.03.2006 - The Sahara's largest crater discovered in Egypt
» 06.03.2006 - "Threat from wild birds unlikely in West Africa"
» 28.02.2006 - Three new lemur species identified in Madagascar
» 28.02.2006 - Mozambique asks for aid after earthquake
» 23.02.2006 - Tanzania endorses 64 conservation projects
» 20.02.2006 - As oil starts flowing, Mauritania discovers environment
» 07.02.2006 - Will turtles survive Cape Verde tourist invasion?
» 05.12.2005 - Earthquakes hit East, Central Africa
» 02.12.2005 - Thousands displaced by volcano in Comoros
» 01.12.2005 - Comoros, EU sign fisheries agreement
» 25.11.2005 - Comoros volcano eruption causes health concerns
» 23.11.2005 - Threatened bustard hunted in Botswana
» 01.11.2005 - Ghana's Songor Lagoon drying up
» 01.11.2005 - West Africa's Canary Current to be protected
» 31.10.2005 - Whales guided to safety in Cape Verde
» 12.09.2005 - Cameroon authorities seize large ivory cache
» 26.07.2005 - Rare Cape Verde bird "never existed"
» 22.06.2005 - Cameroon, Togo, Gambia "bought by whaling nations"
» 22.06.2005 - Senegal diesel power plant gets support
» 13.06.2005 - Africa wildlife conservation "is a bargain"
» 01.06.2005 - Seychelles bird recovers from near-extinction
» 30.05.2005 - New black rhino reserve approved in South Africa
» 27.05.2005 - Two new World Heritage sites for Gabon?
» 05.05.2005 - Environmentalist attack new Mauritius highway
» 25.04.2005 - Row over DDT use against malaria in Uganda
» 20.04.2005 - Congo's Virunga Park celebrates 80th anniversary
» 20.04.2005 - Comoros islanders return after fleeing volcano
» 18.04.2005 - Comoros volcano erupts, 10,000 flee
» 04.04.2005 - Chemical, nuclear alarm in Somalia after tsunami
» 01.04.2005 - Fear of volcanic eruption in Comoros
» 29.03.2005 - Kenya craftsmen get environmental certificate
» 14.03.2005 - Sudan named "new world hub of ivory trade"
» 11.03.2005 - Burkina Faso graduates first wetland scientists
» 24.02.2005 - Congo River dam to industrialise Africa, Europe
» 24.02.2005 - Rare gorilla species survived Congo war
» 23.02.2005 - Scientists link Ebola to animal carcasses
» 22.02.2005 - Substantial tsunami damage to Seychelles reefs
» 10.02.2005 - French-Chadian funded scientists reveal origin of hippos
» 10.02.2005 - More patrols for Guinea-Bissau's marine parks
» 08.02.2005 - Seychelles owl "no longer endangered"
» 07.02.2005 - Landmark Congo Basin conservation treaty signed
» 07.02.2005 - Africa's protected areas face funding shortfall
» 06.02.2005 - Cameroon timber companies get more responsible
» 03.02.2005 - Brazzaville summit addresses Congo Basin's forests
» 01.02.2005 - Refugee areas in Guinea to be rehabilitated
» 27.01.2005 - Gabon most environmentally sustainable in Africa
» 24.01.2005 - Ghana, Burkina Faso to manage Volta Basin
» 21.01.2005 - Madagascar to curb illegal logging
» 21.01.2005 - Congo to move endangered white rhinos to Kenya
» 20.01.2005 - Disasters increase in numbers in South Africa
» 17.01.2005 - Guinea-Bissau President asked to increase Bijagos Park
» 22.12.2004 - Locals "evicted" by Ethiopia tourism project
» 21.12.2004 - Artisanal fisheries encouraged in Angola
» 20.12.2004 - New hope for Algeria's wetlands
» 17.12.2004 - All but Southern Africa gets more rain by global warming
» 17.12.2004 - Garbage in Burkina Faso turns into profit
» 10.12.2004 - Wangari Maathai receives Nobel Peace Prize
» 09.12.2004 - Congo's pygmy chimpanzee threatened
» 07.12.2004 - Tanzania's Mafia Island links telecom and environment
» 03.12.2004 - Overfishing behind Ghana's wildlife decline
» 29.11.2004 - Dam gives way for wetlands in Zambia
» 23.11.2004 - Tunisia committed to wetland protection
» 11.11.2004 - Coelacanths inspire science in South Africa
» 09.11.2004 - Congo's uranium mine "must stay closed," UN
» 08.11.2004 - Angola joins environmentalist union
» 05.11.2004 - Environmental development plan for littoral Mauritania
» 03.11.2004 - Kenya's Wangari Maathai hailed by World Bank
» 20.10.2004 - Anthrax kills 200 hippos in Uganda park
» 19.10.2004 - Amphibian extinction wave reaches Africa
» 11.10.2004 - New compromise on ivory trade reached
» 08.10.2004 - Kenya's Wangari Maathai awarded 2004 Nobel Peace Prize
» 05.10.2004 - First-ever rhino artificially inseminated
» 04.10.2004 - Limited rhino hunt allowed in SA, Namibia
» 01.10.2004 - Efforts to save bird-life in Upper Guinea Forest
» 24.09.2004 - Anthrax outbreak in Botswana, Namibia subsiding
» 21.09.2004 - Seychelles, EU negotiate new fisheries deal
» 15.09.2004 - Gabon to ease access to new national parks
» 14.09.2004 - Cameroon's Campo Park gets management plan
» 06.09.2004 - Declining elephant population in Malawi park
» 20.08.2004 - Mozambican fishermen protect terns and turtles
» 13.08.2004 - Seychelles to improve shark fish monitoring
» 07.07.2004 - Project to clean up polluted Indian Ocean
» 06.07.2004 - South Africa's Cape Floral Region a "biologic sensation"
» 29.06.2004 - Equatoguinean navy shoots at research vessel
» 25.06.2004 - Recovery for Africa's threatened black rhinos?
» 23.06.2004 - Mauritania to meet growing environmental challenges
» 21.06.2004 - Sahara desert antelopes close to extinction
» 21.06.2004 - South Africa announces more national parks
» 20.06.2004 - Northern Mozambique becomes "charter" destination
» 09.06.2004 - West African chimps could be extinct in 20 years
» 07.06.2004 - Endangered Moroccan bird satellite tagged
» 04.06.2004 - Dinosaurs prove Africa is younger than assumed
» 03.06.2004 - Botswana villages fighting desertification
» 02.06.2004 - Namibia to improve ecosystem management
» 31.05.2004 - African-Atlantic fisheries to be monitored
» 21.05.2004 - Tri-national rainforest park in Congo Basin financed
» 18.05.2004 - Songwe River sours Malawi, Tanzania environment
» 14.05.2004 - Gold mining threatens Tanzania's protected forests
» 13.05.2004 - Gabon to increase national park guarding
» 03.05.2004 - Seychelles to fight invasive marine species
» 29.04.2004 - Cameroon orders environmental study of dam project
» 06.04.2004 - New uses for West Africa's miracle yohimbe tree
» 24.03.2004 - Enhanced conservation efforts in flooding Zambezi
» 19.03.2004 - Southern Africa's ivory sales put on ice
» 19.03.2004 - Seychelles leads global plant conservation effort
» 09.03.2004 - Africa's boubou couples celebrate victory with duet
» 05.03.2004 - Environment taught in South Africa's public schools
» 24.02.2004 - South Africa sets up new environmental court
» 18.02.2004 - Antelopes airborne from the US to Mt Kenya
» 11.02.2004 - In Lesotho, "the land is blowing away"
» 11.02.2004 - Cameroonian farmers and herders reconcile
» 05.02.2004 - "Extinct monkey" may still exist on Ivorian-Ghanaian border
» 30.01.2004 - Researchers observe toxic gas eruption off Namibia
» 29.01.2004 - Mauritius to close its ports to illegal fishers
» 28.01.2004 - Large investments in Tunisian wind power
» 19.01.2004 - Virunga mountain gorilla population is growing
» 16.01.2004 - Ebola also causes epidemics in ape populations
» 15.01.2004 - Gas buses to improve Cairo air quality
» 12.01.2004 - Local communities support Senegal's Saloum Reserve
» 08.01.2004 - Combating alien species in Indian Ocean island states
» 16.12.2003 - More ivory than elephants on West African markets
» 04.12.2003 - Ecotourism investments in SA's St Lucia Park
» 28.11.2003 - Scientists taming sharks at South Africa's coast
» 27.11.2003 - South Africans look into illegal lion breeding
» 27.11.2003 - Rabies ravages endangered Ethiopian wolf
» 26.11.2003 - Africa's great apes "on brink of extinction"
» 20.11.2003 - Moroccan fisheries threaten Mediterranean dolphins
» 17.11.2003 - Botswana's baboons reveal complex social societies
» 16.11.2003 - South Africa saves global albatross protection
» 11.11.2003 - River Niger to be saved from extinction
» 05.11.2003 - Gum and natural resin production stimulated
» 01.11.2003 - Heavy rains flood Western Sahara desert
» 29.10.2003 - Mozambique to protect turtles from trawl nets
» 23.10.2003 - "Disadvantaged South Africans" get lobster rights
» 20.10.2003 - Kenya lifts ban on mangrove harvesting
» 13.10.2003 - Study ties African drought to ocean temperatures
» 20.09.2003 - Reefs from Kenya to Mozambique "dead by 2015"
» 16.09.2003 - Madagascar to triple areas under protection
» 09.09.2003 - A tenth of Africa's surface now protected
» 05.09.2003 - Evacuations planned as Comoran volcano may erupt
» 03.09.2003 - Gabonese national park system given world publicity
» 01.08.2003 - Community-based research nets results in Benin
» 25.07.2003 - Nigerian oil and environment reviewed
» 25.07.2003 - Africa's early ecologic-cultural history studied
» 22.07.2003 - Niger's desert parks in danger of abandonment
» 18.07.2003 - Africa to enhance nature conservation
» 12.07.2003 - Zimbabwean fish records shortevity
» 09.07.2003 - Boost for the black rhino in South Africa
» 09.07.2003 - Rwanda to improve environmental management
» 08.07.2003 - Namibian floods subsiding
» 03.07.2003 - Ancient SA kingdom returns to honour
» 03.07.2003 - Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills named world heritage site
» 02.07.2003 - New tourism gateway for Namibian park
» 01.07.2003 - Mauritanian beaches full of dead dolphins
» 24.06.2003 - Sacred forests conserve Madagascar's biodiversity
» 21.06.2003 - No raw materials for Kenyan wood carvers
» 18.06.2003 - Northern Africa in need of reforestation
» 17.06.2003 - New agreement will help restore Zambia's Kafue Flats
» 12.06.2003 - Greenhouse makes most of Africa greener
» 11.06.2003 - Somaliland considers outlawing charcoal production
» 06.06.2003 - Scandinavians pull out of Uganda's Bujagali project
» 02.06.2003 - Poverty strategies in Africa not working, says WWF
» 28.05.2003 - Zim communities want to take parks back
» 27.05.2003 - Sustainable forest management promoted in Burkina Faso
» 26.05.2003 - Water harvesting promoted in troubled Karamoja Cluster
» 26.05.2003 - Eradicated black rhinos returning to Zambia
» 25.05.2003 - Senegalese artisanal fishers weep over noble fish
» 24.05.2003 - Two gorillas repatriated from Nigeria to Cameroon
» 22.05.2003 - Giant canyon discovered off Mauritanian coast
» 17.05.2003 - Swazi first black African on Mount Everest?
Documents
Features
» Origin of Madagascar's peculiar species
» Africa to pay for Europe's "green policies"
» The Mangroves
an undervalued ecosystem
» Lesotho: Water of the future, waters of the past
» Banc d'Arguin: The Imraguen guards of culture and nature
» Forests and deforestation in Africa
- the wasting of an immense resource

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