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  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Tale of Two Migratory Eagles

    Two fishermen from Karim Lamido local government area of Taraba State went fishing recently, but instead of fish their nets caught wild Eagles, which were discovered to have migrated from Finland in far away Europe. Specimens of the Eagles were taken to the National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, near Jos, to ascertain whether or not they are carriers of the dreaded avian influenza virus.

  • New Vision Uganda: Second Rhino Born At Nakasongola Home

    UGANDA has seen its second rhino born at the Nakasongola sanctuary this year. After giving birth to a bull calf named Barack Obama six months ago, another male calf was produced at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary this weekend.

  • Business Day South Africa: Hunting for Other Ways to Protect Rhinos [opinion]

    SA HAS done a superb job of growing rhino numbers from about 100 in 1900 to 18000 today. In the rest of Africa, rhino populations have declined from 100000 in 1965 to 5000 today.

  • November 27
  • Daily Observer Gambia: Hippos On Rampage in CRR Again Farmers in Desperate Situation

    The seemingly unending menace of hippos rampange has intensified again in some parts of the Central River Region with the latest one in Nyanga Bantang ward in Niani district of the area.

  • Monitor Uganda: Parks Too Small to Keep Elephants

    The government should consider creating a safe corridor for elephants to roam about due to congestion in most national game parks, the Amuru Resident District Commissioner, has said.

  • November 26
  • Leadership Nigeria: Finnish Eaglets Discovered in Nation

    Two infant eagles, suspected to be male and a female and believed to have migrated from a zoo in Finland, were last week trapped separately by two young fishermen in a river called Thaton in Karim-Lamido Local Government Area in Taraba State.Confirming the discovery to newsmen yesterday in his office, the state Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Godwin Nyame, said a young man ...

  • November 23
  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Beitbridge Scales Up Anti-Poaching Drive

    The Beitbridge Rural District Council is working on measures to curb rampant poaching of wildlife and natural resources in the district, an official has said.

  • New Vision Uganda: Elephants Destroy Crops in Amuru

    AT least 18 goats in Koch-Goma sub-county in Amuru district have been killed by stray elephants from Murchison Falls National Park since the beginning of the year, the LC3 chairman, John Bosco Okullo, said on Thursday.

  • November 20
  • Daily Observer Gambia: Biodiversity Training Opens at Abuko Nature Reserve

    A five-day training on biodiversity conservation and management for forestry officers, last Thursday, November 19th commenced at the Darwin Field Station, located right in the heart of the Abuko Nature Reserve.

  • November 19
  • Mmegi Botswana: Of the Okavango Delta, Its People And the Merciless Predators [analysis]

    The Okavango Delta, which has been described as the world's largest inland delta, is the lifeline of the people living on its banks.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Extinction Crisis Threatens Biodiversity

    A third of the world's amphibians, a fifth of all mammals and 70 per cent of all plants are under threat, according to the latest Red List published just two months before the world marks the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010.

  • November 18
  • New Vision Uganda: Wildlife Authority Boss Survives Crash

    The Uganda Wildlife Authority plane that crash-landed about 100 metres after take-off in Adjumani district

  • November 17
  • Nation Kenya: Row Over New Move to Allow Ivory Trade

    Kenya is opposing a move by Tanzania to reintroduce the sale of ivory, saying it will increase elephant poaching in the region.

  • Arusha Times Tanzania: Pandemonium as Pangolin is Sighted at Mang'ola

    It was all excitement in Mangola Village, Karatu District when local residents discovered the rare Pangolin an animal believed to be able to predict the future, or something.

  • Mmegi Botswana: Banning Wildlife Hunting is a Mistake - Expert

    An expert on Friday warned that the banning of hunting in preference to photographic safaris could have a devastating effect on the environment and the wildlife it is expected to preserve.

  • New Times Rwanda: Akagera National Park to Be Re-Demarcated

    The boundaries of Akagera National Park are set to be re-demarcated following a cabinet approval giving a go ahead for the exercise and fencing the park in the Eastern Province.

  • November 16
  • New Vision Uganda: Settle UWA Land Dispute, Govt Urged

    LEADERS from Kapchorwa district have appealed to the parliamentary social services committee to liaise with the Government to quickly settle the land dispute between the Benet and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).

  • November 13
  • IPS Uganda: 'Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars'

    "We have been reduced to begging from relatives and to migrate to urban areas where life is not safe. We were living in the mountain for more than 200 years. Transferring us means burying us, completely. We want to stay in our area and develop."

  • November 12
  • TRAFFIC Africa: Illegal Ivory Trade Rising [press release]

    The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS).

  • Namibian Namibia: Rescued Cubs Doing Well

    FOUR cheetah cubs that were rescued in July this year - Polly, Tony, Mischief and Phil have made great progress through rehabilitation efforts and are now in great health.

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