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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.

Comoros | Réunion and Mayotte
Science - Education | Environment - Nature
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
Technology | Environment - Nature | Science - Education
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.


Society | Environment - Nature
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
Environment - Nature
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.

» 28.05.2010 - Maghreb emerging from record dry century
» 31.03.2010 - Prehestoric snakes still alive in Madagacar
» 26.03.2010 - Rare lemurs found in Madagascar forests
» 04.03.2010 - Africa’s green energy under-exploited
» 01.03.2010 - Massive Pharaoh’s head unearthed
» 19.01.2010 - Online consultations to help poor nations’ energy strategy
» 30.11.2009 - African climate policy centre receives $8.5 million from Sweden
» 05.11.2009 - It's confirmed: New ocean to split Ethiopia
» 06.10.2009 - Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
» 30.09.2009 - Climate change could induce more food dependency on Africa, FAO paper
» 04.08.2009 - Southern Africa to experience a flood of renewable energy projects
» 26.06.2009 - Sudan ready for biofuels
» 17.04.2009 - Century of drought again to haunt West Africa
» 10.12.2008 - African urban ecology under-studied
» 25.10.2008 - New coral reef discovered in Seychelles
» 14.10.2008 - "Drastic decline" of Ivorian chimps
» 13.10.2008 - Green Sahara more common than thought
» 07.10.2008 - Small space rock expected over Sudanese sky
» 05.08.2008 - African drought linked to warmer Indian Ocean
» 02.08.2008 - "African elephants extinct by 2020"
» 20.06.2008 - Tanzania vulture deaths may cause epidemic risks
» 16.07.2007 - Lake Victorious: weevils defeat water hyacinths
» 23.03.2007 - Malawi to roll out 'fertiliser trees' project
» 28.02.2007 - New study counters bid to commercialise ivory
» 22.02.2007 - "Mystery bird" found in Senegal park
» 08.12.2006 - Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
» 23.11.2006 - India gives West Africa US$ 250m to develop biofuels
» 17.11.2006 - Scientists predict next Ebola outbreak
» 10.11.2006 - Early hominids eradicated African competitor
» 06.11.2006 - Global fisheries collapse to hit Africa first
» 23.05.2006 - Satellites reveal marine turtles' migrations
» 28.04.2006 - "Hermaphrodite" hyenas give cubs hormonal kick-start
» 07.04.2006 - South African mole rats: Proudly lazy
» 28.02.2006 - Three new lemur species identified in Madagascar
» 11.03.2005 - Burkina Faso graduates first wetland scientists
» 23.02.2005 - Scientists link Ebola to animal carcasses
» 10.02.2005 - French-Chadian funded scientists reveal origin of hippos
» 17.12.2004 - All but Southern Africa gets more rain by global warming
» 03.12.2004 - Overfishing behind Ghana's wildlife decline
» 19.10.2004 - Amphibian extinction wave reaches Africa
» 05.10.2004 - First-ever rhino artificially inseminated
» 07.06.2004 - Endangered Moroccan bird satellite tagged
» 03.05.2004 - Seychelles to fight invasive marine species
» 20.10.2003 - Kenya lifts ban on mangrove harvesting
» 13.10.2003 - Study ties African drought to ocean temperatures
» 20.09.2003 - Reefs from Kenya to Mozambique "dead by 2015"
» 25.07.2003 - Africa's early ecologic-cultural history studied
» 12.07.2003 - Zimbabwean fish records shortevity
» 12.06.2003 - Greenhouse makes most of Africa greener
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