Nigeria
Environment - Nature | Science - Education
"Conserving Nigeria's forests pays off"
afrol News, 11 November - Preserving Nigeria's surviving tropical forests and planting new trees to replace those lost to deforestation "offers great benefits," according to researchers, both to the climate and to agriculture.
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Cameroon
Environment - Nature | Science - Education
Cameroon "new gorillas" need protection
afrol News, 2 November - A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living there.
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Seychelles
Environment - Nature | Travel - Leisure
Seychelles opens 1st "carbon neutral reserve"
afrol News, 28 September - Cousin Island in Seychelles is launched as the world's first "carbon neutral natural reserve" at the national 2010 Tourism Expo. Eco-tourists flying in from overseas are assured their flights' CO2 emissions are reduced elsewhere.
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Gabon
Environment - Nature | Economy - Development
Gabon hopes for cash for forest protection
afrol News, 26 May - Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba on his way to an international conference on climate change and forests hopes he can cash in aid funds in return for further forest protection. A Gabonese climate council was launched today.
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