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Parc Niokolo Koba du Sénégal : un réseau de présidents de communauté rurale riverains en gestationve...
mediaterre.org | 08 Dec 2011
Les présidents d'au moins huit communautés rurales se sont réunis jeudi à la gouvernance de Tambacounda, dans le but de mettre en place un réseau des 15 présidents de conseil rural riverains du Parc national Niokolo-Koba et situés dans les régions de Tambacounda, Kolda et Kédougou, a constaté un...

Participants Want Early Warning System On Climate Established in West Africa
AllAfrica.com | 07 Feb 2011
Accra - Ghana — Participants at a two-day workshop that discussed the mechanism for integrating environment and sustainable development into policies, programmes and projects have called for the development of an information and early warning system on climate change in order to reduce the...

Biodiversity | Health and Environment | Impacts on Ecosystems | Protected Areas

Give mineral rights to the people
Africa News | 01 Feb 2011
In a free Africa, the mineral rights will belong to the people rather than to the government. The government is not the people, even in circumstances were people elect a government, the government is there to govern the people, hence the word government. Africa's resources, now, long after imperialistic forces were defeated and rightly kicked out of Africa, the resources of the continent should be given to the people.

Economics and the Environment | Impacts on Ecosystems | Protected Areas

Kalahari Bushmen inremarkable legal victory
BBC World Service | 28 Jan 2011
An appeals court in Botswana has ruled that indigenous Bushmen can drill wells for water on their traditional land in the Kalahari Game Reserve. The judgement is a remarkable victory for the Bushmen. Not only has the court upheld their right to water in the Kalahari Desert, but it has criticised the government's treatment of the bushmen as "degrading".

Botswana | Access to Freshwater | Access to Information | Protected Areas | Public Policy

South Sudan seeks millions for war-hit wildlife
Reuters | 18 Jan 2011
South Sudan appealed for investors to plough $140 million into its war-hit wildlife parks, seeking to kick-start a tourism industry and wean itself off oil months ahead of its expected independence.

Sudan | Biodiversity | Impacts on Ecosystems | Protected Areas | Tourism and Biodiversity

Wildlife groups condemn Ugandan golf course plan
Reuters | 23 Nov 2010
Environment groups have condemned President Yoweri Museveni's order to allow an investor to build a golf course in Uganda's biggest national park, saying it would disturb wildlife and hit tourism. Museveni earlier this month told the state-run Uganda Wildlife Authority to allow the Madhvani Group to build the golf course and a swimming pool in Murchison Falls National Park, which straddles the River Nile.

Elders to sue UK government for injustices
Daily Nation | 23 Nov 2010
The Taita Council of Elders is pondering filing a case in The Hague over historical injustices against the community. The council, also known as Waghosi wa Isanga, has called Taita lawyers for a brainstorming meeting on the matter. The councils treasurer Gabriel Nyambu said on Tuesday that they would discuss the possibility of suing the British government for taking away more than 17,000 square kilometres of their land to establish a national park.

Kenya | Land Tenure Issues | Protected Areas | Public Policy | Tourism and Biodiversity

Tanzania: Planned Highway a Threat to the Serengeti
AllAfrica.com | 17 Nov 2010
The name Serengeti is a corruption by English and Swahili of the Maasai word Siringet. Siringet means a vast land that runs forever. Our modern understanding of Serengeti is that it is a straight and elongated grassland ecosystem, which is interspersed with wooded savanna and shrublands.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Biodiversity | Protected Areas

Africa's bloody war to save its rhino
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Nov 2010
With rhino horn in demand in south-east Asia for its supposed medicinal purposes, South Africa and its neighbours are fighting an increasingly gruesome battle against poachers, including armed security guards and electronic tagging

South Africa | Protected Areas | Wildlife Conflicts

South Africa wages war on ruthless rhinoceros poachers
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Nov 2010
South Africa is fighting an increasingly bloody war against poachers who have doubled the number of rhinos they have killed in a year to feed a soaring demand for rhino horn from Asian organised crime syndicates. The number of rhinos killed by poachers this year has soared to 261, more than double the total for the whole of 2009. Now the national army has been urgently requested to patrol game parks and some rhino owners have been forced to hire ex-military security guards.

South Africa | Biodiversity | Protected Areas | Trade and Environment | Wildlife Conflicts

Tanzania: Authority Protects Rare Fish
AllAfrica.com | 24 Jun 2010
Dynamite fishing here has been singled out as a major challenge for the newly established Tanga Coelacanth Marine Park Authority. The Livestock Development and Fisheries minister, Dr John Magufuli, last year warned that the re-emerging spate of dynamite and other illegal fishing practices could be...

Tanzania | United Republic of | Fisheries | Protected Areas

Nigeria: NIMASA Clears Lagos Waters
AllAfrica.com | 06 May 2010
The Marine Environment Management Department of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has commenced the physical removal of waste materials from the waters in Lagos state. Gunwa said officers of her department will henceforth monitor and ensure that all vessels dispose of their waste through the appropriate channel, adding that anyone found patronizing unapproved waste collectors will be sanctioned.

Nigeria | Protected Areas | Waste Management

Namibia: Rogue Helicopter Damages Mercury Island
AllAfrica.com | 30 Apr 2010
A BLUE, foreign-registered helicopter bearing the identification 5YBXE tried to land on Mercury Island along the southern coast of Namibia last Thursday, and in the process destroyed hundreds of endangered seabird nests, according to the Namibian Coast Conservation and Management Project (Nacoma).

Namibia | Protected Areas | Threatened Species

Conservationists agree to protect African elephants
The New Times | 11 Jun 2009
Representatives from six African states have agreed to stand firm and speak with one voice to protect one of the largest land mammals on Earths– African elephants.

Protected Areas

Youths lay siege to Ogulagha terminal
Vanguard | 05 May 2009
PROTESTING youths of Ogulagha community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, weekend, laid siege at the multi-billion naira Forcados Terminal, operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) following the expiration of the communitys ultimatum to the multinational oil firm to repair its shoreline, which is under severe threat by erosion.

Nigeria | Freshwater | Protected Areas

Tanzania to bolster 15 national parks
East African Business Week | 28 Feb 2009
The Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) is set to make improvements to its 15 wildlife parks in the country by inviting private firms to participate in various investments.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Biodiversity | Planning and Management of Development

Cameroon creates park to conserve threatened species
afrol News | 19 Feb 2009
Cameroonian government has created a new national park to protect a population of 600 gorillas, and other threatened species such as chimpanzees, forest elephants, buffaloes, and bongo.

Cameroon | Biodiversity | Protected Areas | Threatened Species

SADC falls in love with cross-border conservation
The Namibian | 15 Feb 2009
In a world where the environment and natural world and its wildlife are under increasing strain, there is fortunately an awareness that what remains of wilderness area have to be safeguarded now, if future generations are to know and experience them.

Namibia | Protected Areas

Wildlife Restocked in Thousands
New Era | 05 Feb 2009
More than 6 700 wildlife have been reintroduced to conservancies since 1999. Game reintroductions to communal area conservancies have increased populations of species – especially those that were removed from areas where there is an oversupply of animals.

Namibia | Biodiversity | Protected Areas

Namibia's Sperrgebiet Becomes National Park
New Era | 05 Feb 2009
The second largest national park will be proclaimed on Friday, in the Karas Region.

Namibia | Biodiversity | Protected Areas

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