Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Tanzania has come up with a national land use planning commission to resolve the escalating human-wildlife conflicts, particularly for communities living close to the country's national parks. "We believe that the ongoing human-wildlife conflicts will be resolved after the formation of the commission," said Alan Kijazi, Director General of Tanzania …
International elephant research organization, Save The Elephants, said Thursday an ambitious new report identifying some of Kenya's most important wildlife migratory corridors will help close the gap between conservation and urban development. Save The Elephants' Head of Monitoring and one of the co-authors of the report, Dr Ben Okita said …
Malanje - The Ministry of the Environment plans to create an institute dedicated to the study, management, conservation and protection of the Palanca Negra Gigante (giant sable antelope), announced Tuesday in Malanje, the incumbent minster, Fátima Jardim. The initiative, according to the minister, should be installed in Malanje and will …
Sowa Town — President Lt Gen. Dr Seretse Khama Ian Khama has released four rhinos into Sowa Town Park located in the Botash mine lease area. Speaking in an interview after the release on July 1 during the annual Race for Rhinos event held for the first time in Sowa, …
A study conducted by two wildlife researchers has indicated that 32 wildlife species are vulnerable to human-animal conflicts across the country. The study, which was brought out after examining close to 3,000 villages lying close to wildlife reserves, has called for strengthening the human-wildlife conflict management system. The study has …
GURUGRAM: In the first survey of its kind on population density of wild animals in five districts of Haryana, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has found leopards occupy a 200 square km area in these parts of the Aravalis. And the terrain in Gurgaon and Faridabad districts happens to …
NAIROBI, (Xinhua) -- Kenya on Monday launched a new five-year strategic framework to rejuvenate wildlife conservation amid multiple threats linked to human actions and climatic stresses. Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources, Professor Judi Wakhungu said the national wildlife conservation and management strategy covering 2018 to 2023 seeks to …
Ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has taken a heavy toll on the country’s women. Shocking levels of sexual violence have given the country a label as the “most dangerous place to be a woman”. Civil strife, along with bushmeat hunting and human encroachment, also threatens …
Botswana is leading the score boards in conservation of the world’s fastest land mammal, the cheetah otherwise scientifically known as the Acinonyx jubatus. The landlocked realm is home to at least 2 000 of the 7 100 cheetahs remaining globally and the country continues to make greater winning efforts to …
Environment and Natural Resources Cabinet Secretary, Prof Judi Wakhungu Monday launched the formulation of Kenya’s first-ever National Wildlife Conservation and Management Strategy in Nairobi. Prof Wakhungu also the inaugurated a national steering to provide policy direction, high-level guidance and general oversight in the process to ensure ownership and buy-in. The …
Benin is hiring scores of extra park rangers and bringing in conservation scientists to rehabilitate a part of West Africa's largest wildlife reserve, which contains big cats and thousands of elephants that have largely died out elsewhere in the region. The W-Arli-Pendjari (WAP) complex is the region's biggest remaining expanse …
The object of this Bill is to provide for the conservation and sustainable management of wildlife; to strengthen wildlife conservation and management; to continue the Uganda Wildlife Authority; to streamline roles and responsibilities for institutions involved in wildlife conservation and management; and for other related matters.
Four cheetahs were flown from South Africa and released into Liwonde National Park in southern Malawi, where these animals have been extinct for several years. Cheetahs return to Malawi after decades The cheetahs have been moved into special enclosures called bomas for now, where the animals will learn to adapt …
The government is considering to merge all institutions on the wildlife sector into one, to reduce administrative costs and increase efficiency. Speaking in the august House in Dodoma at the end of the week, Natural Resources and Tourism Minister, Prof Jumanne Maghembe, said he welcomed constructive proposals from legislators on …
One of the 400 endangered mountain gorillas that live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. In the third and last part of our article on conservation of the endangered mountain gorillas’ series, Fredrick Mugira explores the initiatives set up to ensure that humans and gorillas coexist. In a small village of …
THE United States embassy in Namibia and the World Customs Organisation recently hosted an operational planning training course for customs officers and other law enforcement agencies in Windhoek. The workshop was attended by officials from 14 countries and was funded by the US government's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law …
The census work began at 12 noon on May 10 and lasted until 12 noon of May 11. The Maharashtra Forest Department carried out a day-long annual waterhole animal census of the Pune district on May 10 which covered animal sightings in four wildlife sanctuaries — Nanaj, Bhimashankar, Rehekuri and …
Liberia's Governance Commission (GC) Chairman, Dr. Amos C. Sawyer on Saturday, 6 May 2017 officially launched the Country's first ever Wildlife Sanctuary. The facility which is located at Libassa Ecolodge, Marshall in Lower Margibi County is intended to preserve the country's wildlife species locally eaten as bush meat and taken …
Chefchaouen - "If nothing is done, this species will disappear within 10 years," warns a poster on Ahmed Harrad's ageing 4x4 showing Morocco's famed Barbary macaque monkey. Harrad spends his time crisscrossing northern Morocco to try to convince locals to protect the endangered monkey. The only species of macaque outside …
The giraffe population in Kenya is in steep decline, signalling that the country may be headed the Eritrea, Mauritania and Nigeria way, where giraffe species have been wiped out. Latest data from the Giraffe Conservation Foundation show that there has been a 97 per cent decline of the Nubian Giraffe …
