Gabon
Crime | Management | Wildlife
Gabon officials seize chimpanzee body parts
afrol News, 19 January - Wildlife officers in Gabon have arrested five men accused of possessing illegal animal products, including those of endangered species. As there are traditions of bushmeat consumption in Gabon, the arrests signal a stricter law enforcement.
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Madagascar
Crime | Management | Policy
Madagascar illegal logging continues
afrol News, 17 January - Since Madagascar's 2009 coup, illegal logging of precious rosewood in the island's protected forests has exploded. A promise by coup President Andry Rajoelina to act to stop this logging has not been held, environmentalists say.
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Congo Kinshasa | Rwanda
Natural sciences | Nature | Wildlife
Mountain gorilla population recovering
afrol News, 8 December - A new mountain gorilla census in Rwanda and Congo Kinshasa (DRC) shows a 26 percent increase in population of this endangered species during seven years. Mountain gorillas are among the region's main tourist attractions.
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Mauritania
Ecotourism | Management | Wildlife
Mauritania protects unique flamingo colony
afrol News, 16 November - Mauritanian authorities have initiated a fauna protection programme in its Diawling National Park in the mouth of River Senegal to protect a major colony of "dwarf flamingos" that could develop into a tourist attraction.
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Nigeria
Conservation | Management | Natural sciences | Science
"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
Conservation | Natural sciences | Wildlife
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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Niger
Mining | Pollution
Niger radioactive waste given "back to EU"
afrol News, 7 October - Anti-nuclear activists took radioactively contaminated soils from Niger to the doorsteps of the European Parliament in Brussels, protesting the pollution by French company Areva in the West African country.
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Cape Verde
Development | Energy | Infrastructure | Policy
Cape Verde gets Africa's first giant wind farm
afrol News, 7 October - Finally, the funding to design, build and operate onshore wind farms on four islands in the Cape Verde archipelago has been granted. The ground-breaking project is seen as a model for renewable energy projects in Africa at large.
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Cameroon
Management | Trade
Cameroon timber exports to get license
afrol News, 5 October - By 2012, all shipments of wood products from Cameroon to the EU will be required to carry a license showing that they contain timber and wood products from a legal origin, excluding illegal logging, it was announced today.
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Seychelles
Conservation | Development | Development | Ecotourism
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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South Africa
Natural sciences | Nature
SA botany now has vuvuzelas
afrol News, 9 July - Wandering in the Worcester Valley east of Cape town, South Africa, you may accidentally step on a silent vuvuzela. In fact, the Moraea vuvuzela is a newly discovered and named iris flower.
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Crime | Management | Science | Wildlife
Central African bushmeat hits European market
afrol News, 1 July - More than five tonnes of illegal bushmeat is being smuggled in personal luggage each week through the Paris airport alone. Most bushmeat comes from Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Congo Kinshasa (DRC).
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