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They're Coming 'Round on Mountain Gorillas Nations launch new combined effort to save mountain gorillas		21 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:16 AM on 21 Feb 2008 The three African nations that still have mountain gorilla populations have agreed to cooperate on a new plan to save the critically endangered primates. Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo hatched a 10-year program to enhance security in the parks and forests that the gorillas call home, as well as other measures. The countries have also ...
Topics: Africa, endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

You Can Poach an Egg, But You Shouldn't Poach an Elephant Elephants massacred as ivory trade picks up		28 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Can Poach an Egg, But You Shouldn't Poach an Elephant Elephants massacred as ivory trade picks up As many as 23,000 elephants may have been killed in just one year, as an international effort to stem the ivory trade has fallen to the wayside, particularly in Africa. Increased demand for white tuskiness in Japan and China, combined with declining funding for anti-poaching programs, has overwhelmed the intenti ...
Topics: Africa, endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

I Am Dyin', Hear Me Roar Lion advocates support trophy hunting to help save big cats		18 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
I Am Dyin', Hear Me Roar Lion advocates support trophy hunting to help save big cats When one contemplates saving an endangered species, one's thoughts naturally turn to ... shooting it. (Wait, yours don't?) So it is with the fast-shrinking lion population of southern and eastern Africa: A historic meeting of conservationists, regional government representatives, and safari hunters last week in South Africa concluded that legal trop ...
Topics: Africa, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Ape Fear New plan aims to save endangered great apes of Africa		01 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Ape Fear New plan aims to save endangered great apes of Africa Conservationists are angling to raise $30 million to stop gorillas and chimpanzees from going extinct in the wild within a human generation. The U.N. Environment Program's just-released "World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation" reveals a poor prognosis for the survival of gorilla and chimp populations in Africa, where their tribulation ...
Topics: Africa, news, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa Heavy European Union subsidies for fishing fleets off the coast of West Africa are driving the illegal bushmeat trade in the region, to devastating effect. As Euros eat more of their fish, there's less left for West Africans, who turn to bushmeat -- or the meat of wild animals, including gorilla ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, wildlife (all these topics)

Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses A well-known bookie is teaming up with enviros in a creative effort to help save albatrosses, sea birds that are increasingly threatened by a fishing technique called longlining, which involves the use of tens of thousands of baited hooks dragged behind trawlers for 60 miles or more. Conservationists ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, environmental restoration, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Congo Drummed		24 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Congo Drummed The Ebola virus may be wiping out a number of endangered western lowland gorillas in the conflict-torn border region between Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An Ebola outbreak in the area has killed hundreds of people in recent years, and perhaps thousands of gorillas, say scientists. "Chimpanzees and gorillas are already endangered, and Ebola adds yet another threat to those already facing these species, ...
Topics: Africa, wildlife (all these topics)

My Abalone Has a First Name		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
My Abalone Has a First Name The word "abalone" probably doesn't bring to mind the same connotations as, say, "heroin" -- but conservationists in South Africa say that illegal trade in the ocean mollusk has wreaked the kind of havoc usually associated with narcotics, bringing guns, gangs, and violence to previously peaceful communities. Abalone is a prized gourmet food in much of Asia, and the market for it ...
Topics: Africa, marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers Invasive species are wreaking havoc on African wetlands to the tune of billions of dollars per year, according to a new study by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). For example, the water hyacinth, introduced from the Amazon Basin as an ornamental plant, has spread to most of Africa's lakes and rivers, choking out ...
Topics: Africa, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, Texas, wetlands, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

99 and 44/100 Percent Confusing		04 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
99 and 44/100 Percent Confusing Five southern African nations are requesting permission to resume ivory trading at an international conference that begins today in Santiago, Chile. They are asking the 160 countries that have signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to allow them to clear out stockpiles -- mainly from elephants that died naturally -- and to sell 14 tons mor ...
Topics: Africa, business, India, Kenya, South Africa, wildlife (all these topics)

Zoo Zoo Zooma Zoom		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Zoo Zoo Zooma Zoom Sure, that little kitten at the animal rescue shelter is cute, but have you ever considered an orangutan? Hopefully not -- but far too many people have, fueling an illegal primate market in Nigeria, the country that conservationists say does the most trade in endangered species on the African continent. The animals are brought to market by poachers, then purchased by affluent customers who want them for public and privat ...
Topics: Africa, wildlife (all these topics)

Mozam-piqued		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mozam-piqued Mozambique has decided to proceed with a $520 million plan to build a harbor and industrial free-trade zone on its pristine southern coast, a decision that has outraged environmentalists. The plan seems likely to put an end to efforts to establish a transnational conservation area stretching from St. Lucia in South Africa through Swaziland and into the Maputo Elephant ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, marine life, Mozambique, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Rwandering Fools?		14 May 2002	Daily Grist
Rwandering Fools? Tragically, education seems to have been insufficient to protect animals in Rwanda, where poachers last week killed two of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas. The poachers were attempting to capture and sell baby gorillas. According to Rwandan wildlife conservation officials, two men killed two female gorillas and trapped one baby gorilla, in the first such attack since 1985. The men are in custody, but ...
Topics: Africa, Rwanda, wildlife (all these topics)

Fire Walk With Me		10 May 2002	Daily Grist
Fire Walk With Me Fires being deliberately set all across Africa are having a dire effect on the continent's ecosystems, a wildlife expert warned during a recent U.N. Environment Programme conference on African mountains. Many different groups are responsible for setting the fires, said Kenya Wildlife Service warden Bongo Woodley. These include arsonists hoping the government will give them the scorched land; squatters seeking ...
Topics: Africa, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Red Rose		01 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, deforestation, education, food and agriculture, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Hang In, Chad		23 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Hang In, Chad Nearly 10 percent of African bird species are threatened with extinction, according to a newly completed eight-year study published by BirdLife International, an international coalition of conservation groups. The study said many of the species could be saved if 7 percent of the African continent was protected. It identified 1,228 important bird areas, and found that 51 percent of them were threatened by the expansion ...
Topics: Africa, Chad, wildlife (all these topics)

What Would Costas Christ Do? Preaching the gospel of ecotourism	Lisa Jones	03 Mar 2000	Main Dish
Costas Christ has a knack for handling sticky situations. I got a glimpse of this as I was making my way home from an ecotourism conference in Senegal in the early 1990s. Along with a number of other conference participants, I was stuck in the airport in the capital city of Dakar. For some unknown reason, the ticket agents had stalled us, so we were doing what American ecotourists often do when the Third Wo ...
Topics: Africa, education, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, travel, Uganda, wildlife (all these topics)

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