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Zimbabwe
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Rescue operation for Zimbabwe's abused elephants announced

afrol News, 30 October - The rescue of nine cruelly abused elephants from a commercial training facility in Zimbabwe will begin on Monday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has announced.

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Tanzania
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Natron community vows to protect the lake

afrol News, 26 October - Villagers around Tanzania’s Lake Natron have vowed to protect the lake and its treasure of Lesser Flamingos Phoeniconaias minor from industrial development, pointing out that their own future depends on the sustainable use of the lake.

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Africa | World
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Conservation expert calls for protection of Africa's forest gardeners

afrol News, 13 October - A United Nations conservation expert has called for the protection of gorillas and elephants to be included in global climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December as a major factor in sustaining healthy African forests, a central element in temperature control.

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Kenya
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Lake Nakuru becomes Africa's first IBA-branded National Park

afrol News, 12 October - Lake Nakuru National Park, famous for its population of up to 1.5 million non-breeding Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor, has become the first National Park in Africa to be branded as an Important Bird Area (IBA).

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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwean communities educated about owls

afrol News, 29 September - BirdLife Zimbabwe is developing a proposal to produce a documentary that will be aired on national television to demystify the presence of owls in residential areas.

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» 23.09.2009 - Malagasy NGOs unite against plunder of natural resources
» 22.09.2009 - Local group makes mark at Egypt's Lake Qarun
» 21.09.2009 - Four African states part of the Bern Convention's 30 years
» 04.09.2009 - International call to learn to love vultures - or lose them
» 26.08.2009 - Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
» 05.08.2009 - Former border agent sentenced on Tanzanian Leopard Tortoises case
» 20.07.2009 - Rare gorillas flee to DRC
» 18.06.2009 - Elephant rescue resumes in Malawi
» 08.06.2009 - Rescue operation of Malawi elephants on good start
» 05.06.2009 - Epic rescue for endangered elephants in Malawi resumes
» 27.05.2009 - Madagascar selected to benefit from conservation fund
» 30.04.2009 - Kenya wildlife on rapid decrease
» 27.04.2009 - Kenya's Ivory smugglers makes guilty plea
» 20.04.2009 - Uganda celebrates big earnings from gorilla tourism
» 24.03.2009 - Kenya deploys security officers to help fight wild fires
» 23.03.2009 - Wild fire forces animals to flee Kenya forest
» 24.02.2009 - Elephant poachers arrested in Kenya
» 19.02.2009 - Cameroon creates park to conserve threatened species
» 26.01.2009 - Google Earth reveals hidden environment treasure in Mozambique
» 25.12.2008 - South African birdwatchers thrilled by discovery
» 01.12.2008 - Cautious conservation of wetlands is critical for economic growth
» 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
» 21.10.2008 - Massive African ivory sales increase poaching fears
» 14.10.2008 - "Drastic decline" of Ivorian chimps
» 13.10.2008 - Ibadan Malimbe sighted in Nigeria's newest proposed IBA
» 16.09.2008 - Blanket ban on bushmeat disastrous
» 03.09.2008 - Battle of flamingo dam - scientists axed
» 22.08.2008 - The truth about Avian Influenza
» 12.08.2008 - Conservation to set up standard language
» 08.08.2008 - South Africa gives Zambia 500 elephants
» 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
» 02.08.2008 - "African elephants extinct by 2020"
» 29.07.2008 - Mozambican women eaten by lions
» 17.07.2008 - Court halts Kenya's proposed sugar project
» 16.07.2008 - China gets a share in Africa’s ivory stockpiles
» 10.07.2008 - Can Africa's biodiversity survive climate change?
» 10.07.2008 - Flamingos under threat in SA
» 24.06.2008 - Tana's wildlife in Kenya at risk
» 20.06.2008 - Tanzania vulture deaths may cause epidemic risks
» 13.05.2008 - Tata withdraws Natron report
» 05.05.2008 - Tana biofuel could be illegal
» 11.04.2008 - S. Africa avitourism viable
» 28.02.2008 - Lapwings tracked to Sudan
» 26.02.2008 - SA elephant cull condemned
» 31.01.2008 - Illegal ivory trade still rampant
» 29.01.2008 - Communities reject soda plant
» 24.01.2008 - Court backs Zambian satirist
» 28.11.2007 - Cameroon gorilla saga over
» 27.11.2007 - Tanzania ecotourism threatened
» 21.11.2007 - Hyenas kill Kenya lion killer
» 15.11.2007 - Gambia hippos destroy crops
» 31.10.2007 - Conservationists applaud Uganda
» 16.10.2007 - African conservationists oppose flamingo extinction
» 27.07.2007 - DRC: Cry over gorilla executions
» 04.06.2007 - Most African countries fear renewed ivory trade
» 29.05.2007 - 34,000 seabirds killed annually in Africa
» 22.05.2007 - Kenya wildlife attack kills 7
» 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
» 27.03.2007 - Zimbabwean elephant kills 2 British tourists
» 28.02.2007 - New study counters bid to commercialise ivory
» 22.02.2007 - "Mystery bird" found in Senegal park
» 22.01.2007 - Madagascar protects "spectacular" wetlands
» 05.01.2007 - Guinea declares Africa's 1st vulture sanctuary
» 14.12.2006 - Deadly infection hits Zambezi fish
» 08.12.2006 - Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
» 16.11.2006 - SA World Cup airport "threatens millions of birds"
» 07.09.2006 - Rénuion's rare cuckooshrike again recovering
» 04.09.2006 - Black rhino numbers finally rising in Kenya
» 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
» 07.04.2006 - South African mole rats: Proudly lazy
» 06.04.2006 - Angola's illegal tusk trade "doubled in one year"
» 06.03.2006 - "Threat from wild birds unlikely in West Africa"
» 23.11.2005 - Threatened bustard hunted in Botswana
» 12.09.2005 - Cameroon authorities seize large ivory cache
» 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
» 14.03.2005 - Sudan named "new world hub of ivory trade"
» 24.02.2005 - Rare gorilla species survived Congo war
» 23.02.2005 - Scientists link Ebola to animal carcasses
» 08.02.2005 - Seychelles owl "no longer endangered"
» 21.01.2005 - Congo to move endangered white rhinos to Kenya
» 09.12.2004 - Congo's pygmy chimpanzee threatened
» 03.12.2004 - Overfishing behind Ghana's wildlife decline
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