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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.

» 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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