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afrol News, 13 May - Tata Chemicals Ltd (TCL) has finally withdrawn the much discredited Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) Report for the proposed Lake Natron soda ash plant in Tanzania.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

afrol News, 2 May - West African leaders on Wednesday endorsed a 20-year rescue plan to save the Niger River from extinction. The US $8.6 billion project includes reforesting, rehabilitating plains and removing silt from the 4,200 km long river.

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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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Kenya | Sudan
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Lapwings tracked to Sudan

afrol News, 28 February - Two Sociable lapwings Vanellus gregarius, satellite tagged in Kazakhstan last summer, have flown more than 5,000 miles to central Sudan, where they have spent the winter, 'BirdLife International' reported.

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» 26.02.2008 - SA elephant cull condemned
» 31.01.2008 - Illegal ivory trade still rampant
» 29.01.2008 - Communities reject soda plant
» 28.01.2008 - Denmark unveils Africa plan
» 27.11.2007 - Tanzania ecotourism threatened
» 15.11.2007 - Gambia hippos destroy crops
» 31.10.2007 - Conservationists applaud Uganda
» 19.10.2007 - Uganda conserves habitat
» 16.10.2007 - African conservationists oppose flamingo extinction
» 27.07.2007 - DRC: Cry over gorilla executions
» 09.07.2007 - South Africa's deteriorating environment: a cause for concern
» 27.06.2007 - Madagascar's Atsinanana rainforest is world heritage
» 21.05.2007 - More birds than ever face extinction
» 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
» 22.02.2007 - "Mystery bird" found in Senegal park
» 05.01.2007 - Guinea declares Africa's 1st vulture sanctuary
» 17.11.2006 - Climate: "This is not Kenya as I remember it"
» 06.10.2006 - Botswana, US sign 'Debt-for-Nature' agreement
» 07.09.2006 - Rénuion's rare cuckooshrike again recovering
» 04.09.2006 - Black rhino numbers finally rising in Kenya
» 07.06.2006 - "Uncertain future for Malawi's forests"
» 02.05.2006 - Ecology of Botswana's Okavango Delta deteriorating
» 23.02.2006 - Tanzania endorses 64 conservation projects
» 01.11.2005 - West Africa's Canary Current to be protected
» 12.09.2005 - Cameroon authorities seize large ivory cache
» 26.07.2005 - Rare Cape Verde bird "never existed"
» 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
» 27.05.2005 - Two new World Heritage sites for Gabon?
» 05.05.2005 - Environmentalist attack new Mauritius highway
» 20.04.2005 - Congo's Virunga Park celebrates 80th anniversary
» 07.02.2005 - Landmark Congo Basin conservation treaty signed
» 06.02.2005 - Cameroon timber companies get more responsible
» 03.02.2005 - Brazzaville summit addresses Congo Basin's forests
» 17.01.2005 - Guinea-Bissau President asked to increase Bijagos Park
» 20.12.2004 - New hope for Algeria's wetlands
» 29.11.2004 - Dam gives way for wetlands in Zambia
» 23.11.2004 - Tunisia committed to wetland protection
» 05.10.2004 - First-ever rhino artificially inseminated
» 04.10.2004 - Limited rhino hunt allowed in SA, Namibia
» 01.10.2004 - Efforts to save bird-life in Upper Guinea Forest
» 14.09.2004 - Cameroon's Campo Park gets management plan
» 06.07.2004 - South Africa's Cape Floral Region a "biologic sensation"
» 25.06.2004 - Recovery for Africa's threatened black rhinos?
» 21.06.2004 - Sahara desert antelopes close to extinction
» 21.06.2004 - South Africa announces more national parks
» 21.05.2004 - Tri-national rainforest park in Congo Basin financed
» 13.05.2004 - Gabon to increase national park guarding
» 24.03.2004 - Enhanced conservation efforts in flooding Zambezi
» 19.03.2004 - Southern Africa's ivory sales put on ice
» 19.03.2004 - Seychelles leads global plant conservation effort
» 05.03.2004 - Environment taught in South Africa's public schools
» 19.01.2004 - Virunga mountain gorilla population is growing
» 26.11.2003 - Africa's great apes "on brink of extinction"
» 16.11.2003 - South Africa saves global albatross protection
» 29.10.2003 - Mozambique to protect turtles from trawl nets
» 16.09.2003 - Madagascar to triple areas under protection
» 09.09.2003 - A tenth of Africa's surface now protected
» 03.09.2003 - Gabonese national park system given world publicity
» 22.07.2003 - Niger's desert parks in danger of abandonment
» 18.07.2003 - Africa to enhance nature conservation
» 03.07.2003 - Ancient SA kingdom returns to honour
» 02.07.2003 - New tourism gateway for Namibian park
» 24.06.2003 - Sacred forests conserve Madagascar's biodiversity
» 17.06.2003 - New agreement will help restore Zambia's Kafue Flats
» 27.05.2003 - Sustainable forest management promoted in Burkina Faso
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