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afrol News, 14 November - A British company wants to mine coal in the heart of one of South Africa' most ecologically sensitive natural environments, the Wakkerstroom-Luneburg area of Mpumalanga province, environmentalists warn today.

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afrol News, 6 November - Animal rights activists have slammed South African government for auction over 51 tonnes of elephant tusks held in Pretoria today.

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afrol News, 27 October - International sale of Ivory will commence tomorrow, with Namibia kick-starting southern African regional auction scheduled to run for next two weeks.

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SADC groundwater and drought management website launched

afrol News, 22 October - SADC Groundwater and Drought Management Project has announced launch of its website today, aimed at increasing awareness and sharing of information on groundwater and drought management issues in Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.

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Massive African ivory sales increase poaching fears

afrol News, 21 October - Conservationists have raised new fears on protection of elephants population after it was announced that more than 108 tonnes of stashed elephant ivory in southern Africa will be auctioned between 28 October and 6 November.

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» 14.10.2008 - "Drastic decline" of Ivorian chimps
» 13.10.2008 - Ibadan Malimbe sighted in Nigeria's newest proposed IBA
» 08.10.2008 - Whales, dolphins and manatees win protection off West Africa waters
» 24.09.2008 - African forestry firm secures HSBC investment
» 16.09.2008 - Blanket ban on bushmeat disastrous
» 03.09.2008 - Battle of flamingo dam - scientists axed
» 21.08.2008 - Accra meeting hopes to strike climate negotiations deal
» 20.08.2008 - Namibia sanctions ivory trade
» 12.08.2008 - Conservation to set up standard language
» 07.08.2008 - Sudan busts illicit ivory trade
» 07.08.2008 - Fears of downward gorilla populations erased
» 06.08.2008 - 18,000 South African seabirds killed annually
» 17.07.2008 - Court halts Kenya's proposed sugar project
» 16.07.2008 - China gets a share in Africa’s ivory stockpiles
» 10.07.2008 - Can Africa's biodiversity survive climate change?
» 10.07.2008 - Flamingos under threat in SA
» 24.06.2008 - Tana's wildlife in Kenya at risk
» 17.06.2008 - Madagascar gets US$ 20M to protect nature
» 23.05.2008 - Central Africa's "Pygmies" gain from ecotourism
» 13.05.2008 - Tata withdraws Natron report
» 05.05.2008 - Tana biofuel could be illegal
» 02.05.2008 - Niger River to be rescued
» 11.04.2008 - S. Africa avitourism viable
» 28.02.2008 - Lapwings tracked to Sudan
» 26.02.2008 - SA elephant cull condemned
» 31.01.2008 - Illegal ivory trade still rampant
» 29.01.2008 - Communities reject soda plant
» 28.01.2008 - Denmark unveils Africa plan
» 27.11.2007 - Tanzania ecotourism threatened
» 15.11.2007 - Gambia hippos destroy crops
» 31.10.2007 - Conservationists applaud Uganda
» 19.10.2007 - Uganda conserves habitat
» 16.10.2007 - African conservationists oppose flamingo extinction
» 27.07.2007 - DRC: Cry over gorilla executions
» 09.07.2007 - South Africa's deteriorating environment: a cause for concern
» 27.06.2007 - Madagascar's Atsinanana rainforest is world heritage
» 21.05.2007 - More birds than ever face extinction
» 15.05.2007 - Southern Africa’s untold elephant story
» 12.05.2007 - Asian syndicates fuel illegal ivory surge
» 26.04.2007 - Senegal survey discovers raptor ‘super-roost’
» 23.04.2007 - Zambian bags Nobel Prize
» 22.02.2007 - "Mystery bird" found in Senegal park
» 05.01.2007 - Guinea declares Africa's 1st vulture sanctuary
» 17.11.2006 - Climate: "This is not Kenya as I remember it"
» 06.10.2006 - Botswana, US sign 'Debt-for-Nature' agreement
» 07.09.2006 - Rénuion's rare cuckooshrike again recovering
» 04.09.2006 - Black rhino numbers finally rising in Kenya
» 07.06.2006 - "Uncertain future for Malawi's forests"
» 02.05.2006 - Ecology of Botswana's Okavango Delta deteriorating
» 23.02.2006 - Tanzania endorses 64 conservation projects
» 01.11.2005 - West Africa's Canary Current to be protected
» 12.09.2005 - Cameroon authorities seize large ivory cache
» 26.07.2005 - Rare Cape Verde bird "never existed"
» 13.06.2005 - Africa wildlife conservation "is a bargain"
» 01.06.2005 - Seychelles bird recovers from near-extinction
» 30.05.2005 - New black rhino reserve approved in South Africa
» 27.05.2005 - Two new World Heritage sites for Gabon?
» 05.05.2005 - Environmentalist attack new Mauritius highway
» 20.04.2005 - Congo's Virunga Park celebrates 80th anniversary
» 07.02.2005 - Landmark Congo Basin conservation treaty signed
» 06.02.2005 - Cameroon timber companies get more responsible
» 03.02.2005 - Brazzaville summit addresses Congo Basin's forests
» 17.01.2005 - Guinea-Bissau President asked to increase Bijagos Park
» 20.12.2004 - New hope for Algeria's wetlands
» 29.11.2004 - Dam gives way for wetlands in Zambia
» 23.11.2004 - Tunisia committed to wetland protection
» 05.10.2004 - First-ever rhino artificially inseminated
» 04.10.2004 - Limited rhino hunt allowed in SA, Namibia
» 01.10.2004 - Efforts to save bird-life in Upper Guinea Forest
» 14.09.2004 - Cameroon's Campo Park gets management plan
» 06.07.2004 - South Africa's Cape Floral Region a "biologic sensation"
» 25.06.2004 - Recovery for Africa's threatened black rhinos?
» 21.06.2004 - Sahara desert antelopes close to extinction
» 21.06.2004 - South Africa announces more national parks
» 21.05.2004 - Tri-national rainforest park in Congo Basin financed
» 13.05.2004 - Gabon to increase national park guarding
» 24.03.2004 - Enhanced conservation efforts in flooding Zambezi
» 19.03.2004 - Southern Africa's ivory sales put on ice
» 19.03.2004 - Seychelles leads global plant conservation effort
» 05.03.2004 - Environment taught in South Africa's public schools
» 19.01.2004 - Virunga mountain gorilla population is growing
» 26.11.2003 - Africa's great apes "on brink of extinction"
» 16.11.2003 - South Africa saves global albatross protection
» 29.10.2003 - Mozambique to protect turtles from trawl nets
» 16.09.2003 - Madagascar to triple areas under protection
» 09.09.2003 - A tenth of Africa's surface now protected
» 03.09.2003 - Gabonese national park system given world publicity
» 22.07.2003 - Niger's desert parks in danger of abandonment
» 18.07.2003 - Africa to enhance nature conservation
» 03.07.2003 - Ancient SA kingdom returns to honour
» 02.07.2003 - New tourism gateway for Namibian park
» 24.06.2003 - Sacred forests conserve Madagascar's biodiversity
» 17.06.2003 - New agreement will help restore Zambia's Kafue Flats
» 27.05.2003 - Sustainable forest management promoted in Burkina Faso
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