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Angola: Government Signs Agreement to Protect Sable AntelopeAllAfrica.com | 18 Jun 2010Environment minister, Fátima Jardim, is visiting Malanje Province this Thursday for a working visit, aimed at signing a memorandum of understanding for protecting the Giant Sable Antelope. The memorandum serves to take urgent and efficient measures which lead to protection and preservation of the sable antelope, conservation of its natural habitat, organising programmes of scientific research for a better knowledge of the animal's habitat.
Angola | Habitat Loss Angola: Government Reaffirms Greenhouse Gases Stabilisation CommitmentAllAfrica.com | 31 May 2010The Angolan minister of Environment, Fátima Jardim, Thursday in Oslo, Norway, reaffirmed the Government's commitment to contributing to the stabilisation of greenhouse gases. The conference was intended to create a world partnership in the intensification of the implementation of projects and programmes of reduction of emissions caused by the deforestation and degradation of forests, which contribute about 17 percent of the global greenhouse gases emissions.
Angola | Deforestation | Greenhouse Gas Emissions Angola: Floods Leave Over 12,000 People HomelessAllAfrica.com | 26 May 2010A total of 12,949 homeless people and 8,705 children with the academic year interrupted in the districts of Kwanhama, Cuvelai and Cahama, is the balance of the consequences of the floods recorded in the region from the months of January to April of the current year, ANGOP learnt from a source of the provincial civil protection commission.
Angola | Floods Angola: Government Grants U.S. 350 Million for AgricultureAllAfrica.com | 07 May 2010The Angolan Government approved this year a credit-line of USD 350 million to support short and middle farmers, as well as fishermen, aiming at meeting the need to increase food and commercial activity. According to the deputy president, the programmes aim to promote a sustainable fight against extreme hunger and poverty, to guarantee harmonious and integrated development of the communities, as well as to restrict rural exodus.
Angola | Agriculture | Fisheries | Food Security | Poverty Reduction Angola: Deputy Minister Calls for Environment PreservationAllAfrica.com | 23 Apr 2010The Angolan deputy environment minister, Sianga Abílio, stressed Thursday, here, the necessity to preserve the environment, in order to guarantee best future for coming generation. Addressing the press, in the sidelines of a seminar on the Earth World Day (April 22), the government official said to be fundamental to preserve biodiversity and to educate the population, so that they know how to keep safe environment.
Angola | Biodiversity | Environmental Awareness Angola: Education Minister Wants Environment AwarenessAllAfrica.com | 06 Apr 2010The Angolan Education minister, Mpinda Simão, said Tuesday that the National Environment Infant-Juvenile Conference will boost the awareness of all communities on the evils caused by the activities carried out by men in the nature. According to the minister, the dissemination of information on climate change, addressed to the students, teachers, parents and guardians and civil society, must be continuously in the favour of a healthy environment.
Angola | Environmental Awareness | Education Angola: Inamet Launches WebsiteAllAfrica.com | 25 Mar 2010The National Meteorological Institute of Angola (Inamet) launched on Tuesday in Luanda its portal, under the celebrations of the World Meteorology Day, March 23. It is a kind of service that will provide weather forecast information to users accessing the website www.inamet.ao.
Angola | Access to Information | Weather Conditions Angola: Agriculture Ministry Drafts Forests InventoryAllAfrica.com | 19 Mar 2010The Agriculture deputy minister for forests, André de Jesus Moda, said last Thursday in Luanda that the inventory process to determine the number of forests in the country is being drafted nationwide at this moment.According to him, the exploration in Angola has been carried out in a traditional way by the populations and by some companies that operate nearly countrywide in areas where the greater quality of humid tropical forests are abundant.
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