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Botswana | Africa
Released captive elephants "do fine in the wild"

afrol News, 25 February - Scientists have shown that African elephants raised in captivity can be released to the African savannah with relative ease and do fine. Trials done in Botswana give hope for re-establishing threatened elephant range states.

Nigeria
"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.

Comoros | Réunion and Mayotte
Coral deaths reach Mayotte, Comoros

afrol News, 19 October - Scientists find that the corals on the Comoran island Mayotte are rapidly bleaching, which leads to a death of the reef. The situation on Mayotte was "the worst seen in the Indian Ocean," they report.

Kenya
Most Kenyans say no to cleaner energy

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 11 October - The majority of Kenyans are unwilling to abandon their traditional energy sources in favour of cleaner or renewable ones, unless their incomes rise significantly, a new study has found.

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).

Madagascar
Madagascar political chaos causing forest extinction

afrol News, 9 June - The political chaos and trade embargo on Madagascar has caused the current coup leadership to promote illegal logging. Several endangered trees now face extinction, scientists warn.

Maghreb emerging from record dry century

afrol News, 28 May - The 20th century was the driest in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia since severe droughts in the 13th and 16th centuries, a new reconstruction of the climate history of the Maghreb region shows.

Madagascar
Prehestoric snakes still alive in Madagacar

afrol News, 31 March - Researchers have studied a rare form of blindsnakes, "not being very pretty", living in Madagascar. It turns out the species is a prehistoric remain from the times Madagascar still was part of the Gondwana continent about 155 million years ago.

Madagascar
Rare lemurs found in Madagascar forests

afrol News, 26 March - A new population of the rare giant mouse lemur has been discovered in south-western Madagascar's Ranobe forest, exiting environmentalists. Researchers say the population could be a new, unknown sub-species.

Africa | World
Africa’s green energy under-exploited

afrol News, 4 March - Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in developing renewable energy projects with initiatives aimed at producing clean and ‘green’ energy remaining largely under-exploited, a new report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warmed.

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