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Kenya
Environment - Nature | Agriculture - Nutrition

Tana's wildlife in Kenya at risk

afrol News, 24 June - Kenyan National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)'s decision to turn 20,000 hectares of the pristine Tana Delta into irrigated sugarcane plantations has not bode well with conservationists and residents, who argue the move is detrimental to wildlife in the area.

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Tanzania
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Tanzania vulture deaths may cause epidemic risks

afrol News, 20 June - An increased death rate in vultures in Tanzania could be explained by the unlicensed sale of diclofenac for veterinary use in the East Africa region, causing fatal kidney failure in the birds. Vultures play an important ecological role as scavengers of carcasses and their loss put human health at risk as rats take over their role.

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Tanzania
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Tata withdraws Natron report

afrol News, 13 May - Tata Chemicals Ltd (TCL) has finally withdrawn the much discredited Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) Report for the proposed Lake Natron soda ash plant in Tanzania.

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Kenya
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Tana biofuel could be illegal

afrol News, 5 May - Implementation of plans to grow biofuel crops on an idyllic river plain in Kenya could be illegal if implemented in its current form, arguing that its cost has been underestimated while profit overestimated.

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South Africa
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S. Africa avitourism viable

afrol News, 11 April - Tempted by the success of its avitourism [birding's ecotourism] conservation, BirdLife has announced the development of six new birding routes in South Africa's Western Cape and Cape Town areas.

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» 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
» 20.10.2004 - Anthrax kills 200 hippos in Uganda park
» 11.10.2004 - New compromise on ivory trade reached
» 05.10.2004 - First-ever rhino artificially inseminated
» 04.10.2004 - Limited rhino hunt allowed in SA, Namibia
» 24.09.2004 - Anthrax outbreak in Botswana, Namibia subsiding
» 06.09.2004 - Declining elephant population in Malawi park
» 25.06.2004 - Recovery for Africa's threatened black rhinos?
» 21.06.2004 - Sahara desert antelopes close to extinction
» 09.06.2004 - West African chimps could be extinct in 20 years
» 07.06.2004 - Endangered Moroccan bird satellite tagged
» 18.02.2004 - Antelopes airborne from the US to Mt Kenya
» 05.02.2004 - "Extinct monkey" may still exist on Ivorian-Ghanaian border
» 19.01.2004 - Virunga mountain gorilla population is growing
» 16.01.2004 - Ebola also causes epidemics in ape populations
» 16.12.2003 - More ivory than elephants on West African markets
» 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"
» 17.11.2003 - Botswana's baboons reveal complex social societies
» 16.11.2003 - South Africa saves global albatross protection
» 09.07.2003 - Boost for the black rhino in South Africa
» 26.05.2003 - Eradicated black rhinos returning to Zambia
» 24.05.2003 - Two gorillas repatriated from Nigeria to Cameroon

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