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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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afrol News, 28 January - Ahead of the 2009 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) to be held in Copenhagen, the Danish government has revealed plans to tackle global climate change with African countries.

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Gambia hippos destroy crops

afrol News, 15 November - Rice growers in at least 26 Gambian provincial villages have had their crops destroyed by hippopotamus and bush pigs.

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SA tops African fishing

afrol News, 12 November - A survey conducted by the World Bank has placed South Africa as the leader of sub-Saharan Africa fishing and that it has more capacity to ship goods to the international markets.

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34,000 seabirds killed annually in Africa

afrol News, 29 May - At least 34,000 seabirds are killed annually in Africa’s Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME), a rich and biodiverse ecosystem that stretches up the west coast of South Africa and the entire of the Namibian and Angolan coast.

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» 13.03.2007 - EU nets fisheries deal with São Tomé
» 14.02.2007 - Ghana's local fishermen pay the price of overfishing
» 06.11.2006 - Global fisheries collapse to hit Africa first
» 03.11.2006 - Comoros gets regional fisheries monitoring centre
» 10.10.2006 - Oil sector in Guinea-Bissau to avoid pollution scandals
» 07.02.2006 - Will turtles survive Cape Verde tourist invasion?
» 01.12.2005 - Comoros, EU sign fisheries agreement
» 01.11.2005 - West Africa's Canary Current to be protected
» 31.10.2005 - Whales guided to safety in Cape Verde
» 22.06.2005 - Cameroon, Togo, Gambia "bought by whaling nations"
» 04.04.2005 - Chemical, nuclear alarm in Somalia after tsunami
» 22.02.2005 - Substantial tsunami damage to Seychelles reefs
» 10.02.2005 - More patrols for Guinea-Bissau's marine parks
» 21.12.2004 - Artisanal fisheries encouraged in Angola
» 07.12.2004 - Tanzania's Mafia Island links telecom and environment
» 03.12.2004 - Overfishing behind Ghana's wildlife decline
» 21.09.2004 - Seychelles, EU negotiate new fisheries deal
» 20.08.2004 - Mozambican fishermen protect terns and turtles
» 13.08.2004 - Seychelles to improve shark fish monitoring
» 07.07.2004 - Project to clean up polluted Indian Ocean
» 29.06.2004 - Equatoguinean navy shoots at research vessel
» 31.05.2004 - African-Atlantic fisheries to be monitored
» 03.05.2004 - Seychelles to fight invasive marine species
» 24.02.2004 - South Africa sets up new environmental court
» 29.01.2004 - Mauritius to close its ports to illegal fishers
» 28.11.2003 - Scientists taming sharks at South Africa's coast
» 20.11.2003 - Moroccan fisheries threaten Mediterranean dolphins
» 16.11.2003 - South Africa saves global albatross protection
» 29.10.2003 - Mozambique to protect turtles from trawl nets
» 23.10.2003 - "Disadvantaged South Africans" get lobster rights
» 20.09.2003 - Reefs from Kenya to Mozambique "dead by 2015"
» 09.09.2003 - A tenth of Africa's surface now protected
» 01.08.2003 - Community-based research nets results in Benin
» 01.07.2003 - Mauritanian beaches full of dead dolphins
» 25.05.2003 - Senegalese artisanal fishers weep over noble fish

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