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Environment - Nature | Economy - Development
Whales, dolphins and manatees win protection off West Africa waters

afrol News, 8 October - Penning down of signatures by 15 African states will ensure greater protection of dolphins, small whales and manatees living in waters off West Africa or islands in mid-Atlantic Ocean, under a United Nations-backed treaty that aims to conserve wildlife and habitats.

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Africa
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Blanket ban on bushmeat disastrous

afrol News, 16 September - An upsurge in hunting bushmeat in tropical forests and blanket ban on bushmeat poses a serious threat to food security for poor inhabitants of forests in Africa, a new report from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has warned.

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South Africa
Environment - Nature | Labour
Battle of flamingo dam - scientists axed

afrol News, 3 September - Three high-ranking scientists face disciplinary action and loss of their jobs because of their work to save rare lesser flamingos in South Africa.

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Namibia
Environment - Nature
Namibia sanctions ivory trade

afrol News, 20 August - Namibia will officially impose a temporary ban on ivory trade in September while it claims its control and abide by international regulations on endangered species.

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South Africa | World
Society | Environment - Nature
Two indicted for smuggling leopards hides and skull

afrol News, 7 August - Two men could face up to 20 years imprisonment for allegedly killing two leopards in South Africa in 2002 and smuggling their hides and a skull to United States, US State Department reported.

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» 16.07.2008 - China gets a share in Africa’s ivory stockpiles
» 17.06.2008 - Madagascar gets US$ 20M to protect nature
» 02.05.2008 - Niger River to be rescued
» 03.04.2008 - Climate change threatens Africa
» 28.11.2007 - Cameroon gorilla saga over
» 31.10.2007 - Conservationists applaud Uganda
» 19.10.2007 - Uganda conserves habitat
» 29.06.2007 - South Africa fails to get World Heritage listing
» 04.06.2007 - Most African countries fear renewed ivory trade
» 09.03.2007 - Congo joins regional effort to save forests
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique plans more dams on the Zambezi
» 23.11.2006 - India gives West Africa US$ 250m to develop biofuels
» 06.11.2006 - Brazil, India join Senegal in biofuel production
» 10.10.2006 - Oil sector in Guinea-Bissau to avoid pollution scandals
» 06.10.2006 - Botswana, US sign 'Debt-for-Nature' agreement
» 11.04.2006 - Cameroon "should involve locals" to control logging
» 23.02.2006 - Tanzania endorses 64 conservation projects
» 20.02.2006 - As oil starts flowing, Mauritania discovers environment
» 22.06.2005 - Cameroon, Togo, Gambia "bought by whaling nations"
» 13.06.2005 - Africa wildlife conservation "is a bargain"
» 05.05.2005 - Environmentalist attack new Mauritius highway
» 14.03.2005 - Sudan named "new world hub of ivory trade"
» 07.02.2005 - Landmark Congo Basin conservation treaty signed
» 07.02.2005 - Africa's protected areas face funding shortfall
» 03.02.2005 - Brazzaville summit addresses Congo Basin's forests
» 27.01.2005 - Gabon most environmentally sustainable in Africa
» 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
» 11.11.2004 - Coelacanths inspire science in South Africa
» 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
» 11.10.2004 - New compromise on ivory trade reached
» 04.10.2004 - Limited rhino hunt allowed in SA, Namibia
» 13.08.2004 - Seychelles to improve shark fish monitoring
» 06.07.2004 - South Africa's Cape Floral Region a "biologic sensation"
» 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
» 02.06.2004 - Namibia to improve ecosystem management
» 05.03.2004 - Environment taught in South Africa's public schools
» 24.02.2004 - South Africa sets up new environmental court
» 27.11.2003 - South Africans look into illegal lion breeding
» 26.11.2003 - Africa's great apes "on brink of extinction"
» 16.11.2003 - South Africa saves global albatross protection
» 11.11.2003 - River Niger to be saved from extinction
» 16.09.2003 - Madagascar to triple areas under protection
» 09.09.2003 - A tenth of Africa's surface now protected
» 18.06.2003 - Northern Africa in need of reforestation
» 11.06.2003 - Somaliland considers outlawing charcoal production
» 28.05.2003 - Zim communities want to take parks back
» 27.05.2003 - Sustainable forest management promoted in Burkina Faso
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