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Congo Kinshasa
Congo halts oil exploration in Virunga Park

afrol News, 17 March - The government of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has suspended the highly controversial oil exploration programme in the unique Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site.
Congo Kinshasa
Large-scale logging underway in DR Congo

afrol News, 9 March - New decisions by the Congo Kinshasa government, lifting a 9-year moratorium, mean that up to 25 million hectares of rainforest could be sacrificed for industrial exploitation.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian "sacred forests" sold to Indian tea producer

afrol News, 18 February - Despite opposition from Ethiopia's President and environmental authorities, a rainforest area providing livelihood to an indigenous people has been leased out to make tea plantations.
Madagascar
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.
South Africa
South Africa avoids climate leadership

afrol News / IPS, 29 November - South Africa is Africa's largest economy and the continent's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. But at the just opened climate negotiations, South Africa most likely will try to avoid reducing emissions.
Angola
Angola drilling ever deeper, hoping for the best

afrol News / IPS, 2 July - While BP struggles to contain an oil spill that US government estimates indicate is now the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico, questions are being asked about how well prepared Africa's oil-producing countries are for a similar incident.
Gabon
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.
World
Green economy strategies discussed

afrol News, 8 April - More than 600 delegates at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), will look at the five sectors that have been identified as key green investment opportunities – agriculture, industry, tourism, cities and transportation – many of which are open in the developing countries.
World
Strengthen measures to protect forests, FAO

afrol News, 25 March - Countries across the globe have been challenged to better manage and conserve the forests in their areas as one of the commitments to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Tanzania | Zambia
Tanzania, Zambia ivory sales request fails

afrol News, 22 March - Requests from Zambia and Tanzania to hold one-off sales of their ivory stockpiles failed during a CITES species trade meeting today. Inreased illegal ivory sales and poaching during the last years led to the rejection.
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» 15.02.2010 - Ethiopia and UK leaders to head climate change team
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» 09.02.2010 - Herders receive support to improve pastoral resources
» 08.02.2010 - $700 million secured for Climate Action
» 02.02.2010 - "Green Fund" for climate change financing
» 02.02.2010 - BirdLife cares for wetlands
» 19.01.2010 - Online consultations to help poor nations’ energy strategy
» 14.01.2010 - Rising electricity demand boosts the African wind turbine market, study
» 14.01.2010 - Grasslands alternative to fighting climate change
» 11.01.2010 - Sierra Leone government bans logging
» 08.01.2010 - World celebrities climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds
» 04.01.2010 - Rhino poachers arrested in Kenya
» 22.12.2009 - Kenya to counter Tanzania's Ivory sales proposal
» 21.12.2009 - Environmentalists fight developments in Tana River
» 16.12.2009 - Climate change deal must address hunger, UN expert
» 16.12.2009 - DRC conservation initiative receives international recognition
» 15.12.2009 - Clean energy fund for poor countries launched in Copenhagen
» 15.12.2009 - Experts reach conclusion to limit trade on aquatic animals under CITES
» 14.12.2009 - Africa needs stronger regional cooperation, Janneh
» 01.12.2009 - INTERPOL-Africa operation seize illegal Ivory
» 30.11.2009 - African climate policy centre receives $8.5 million from Sweden
» 27.11.2009 - $39 million injected to improve Ethiopia’s pastoralists lives
» 25.11.2009 - UN makes $6 million for Madagascar’s cyclone forecasts
» 24.11.2009 - A quarter of world population live without electricity
» 24.11.2009 - Kenya to end power shortages
» 23.11.2009 - Africa lost 15 percent of GPD to climate change says report
» 20.11.2009 - Ghana-EU sign first voluntary agreement on legal timber exports
» 19.11.2009 - Preserve water sources - report
» 11.11.2009 - Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
» 09.11.2009 - Campaign against plundering of W/Sahara resources launched
» 09.11.2009 - Traffic jams weighs heavily on Kenya’s economy
» 03.11.2009 - Africa plays it tough at climate talks
» 30.10.2009 - Rescue operation for Zimbabwe's abused elephants announced
» 26.10.2009 - Report outlines ways to help developing nations transition to ‘green’ economy
» 26.10.2009 - Natron community vows to protect the lake
» 23.10.2009 - Africa told to enhance actions to reduce disaster risk
» 23.10.2009 - ITU approves new universal mobile phone charger
» 21.10.2009 - Ghana and Burkina Faso urged to develop strategies on use of Volta River
» 20.10.2009 - SA and Tunisia get Swiss funding for clean energy projects
» 20.10.2009 - DRC and Morocco elected to new forest financing programme
» 19.10.2009 - Africa's climate change negotiators meet in Ethiopia
» 19.10.2009 - African countries conclude gender and climate change training
» 16.10.2009 - SA teams up with neighbours for a clean environment
» 16.10.2009 - Shrinking of Lake Chad could spell regional catastrophe
» 15.10.2009 - Kibaki appeals for unity ahead of global summit
» 13.10.2009 - Conservation expert calls for protection of Africa's forest gardeners
» 08.10.2009 - Environmentalists condemn Mozambique's planned damming of Zambezi
» 08.10.2009 - Uganda set new sights to reach safe water targets
» 07.10.2009 - Uganda commits to reforestation
» 06.10.2009 - Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
» 02.10.2009 - West African biodiversity corridor high on Abidjan meeting
» 01.10.2009 - Brazzaville calls on US to support preservation of the Congo Basin
» 30.09.2009 - Climate change could induce more food dependency on Africa, FAO paper
» 29.09.2009 - Zimbabwean communities educated about owls
» 25.09.2009 - Leaders call for UN support on Africa's development
» 23.09.2009 - Malagasy NGOs unite against plunder of natural resources
» 22.09.2009 - Ban calls for global collective action on climate change
» 21.09.2009 - Four African states part of the Bern Convention's 30 years
» 18.09.2009 - SA’s first electric car on display
» 16.09.2009 - North America hailed for plan to regulate greenhouse
» 09.09.2009 - Kenya launches appeal to save Mau forest
» 08.09.2009 - Norway announces euro 350 support for developing countries
» 04.09.2009 - International call to learn to love vultures - or lose them
» 01.09.2009 - Treaty to eliminate illegal fishing penned
» 01.09.2009 - African states make rankings for low sulfur diesel limits
» 26.08.2009 - Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
» 24.08.2009 - African ministers building one voice towards climate change summit
» 05.08.2009 - Former border agent sentenced on Tanzanian Leopard Tortoises case
» 30.07.2009 - Angola gets UN support to boost access to water
» 28.07.2009 - Six African countries targeted in UN’s cleaner cooling project
» 19.06.2009 - Uganda could be a dessert in 40 years
» 05.06.2009 - Epic rescue for endangered elephants in Malawi resumes
» 04.06.2009 - European bank withdraws funding from Ethiopia’s dam
» 27.05.2009 - Madagascar selected to benefit from conservation fund
» 26.05.2009 - Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
» 26.05.2009 - SADC discuss strategies of enhancing ground water resources to fight poverty
» 21.05.2009 - Congo Basin forest management "successful"
» 14.05.2009 - UN report urges for reforms to avert food crisis in Africa
» 05.05.2009 - Green revolution must empower farmers, Migiro asserts
» 30.04.2009 - Kenya wildlife on rapid decrease
» 29.04.2009 - Two African projects named winners of climate grants
» 27.04.2009 - Kenya's Ivory smugglers makes guilty plea
» 20.04.2009 - Uganda celebrates big earnings from gorilla tourism
» 16.04.2009 - Kigali to improve water treatment and management
» 06.04.2009 - Tunisia launches energy saving programme

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