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Environment
| Last Updated 02/09/2010 22:50:00
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 | WB calls for better water management | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In its latest report on Tuesday, the global financial bo
dy, World Bank (WB), has called for "better information and a more integrated ap
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roach" towards water management.
31/08/2010 full text... |
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| UN-backed climate body moves to strengthen activities | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) o
n Monday welcomed the findings of an independent review panel which called for m
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jor changes in management and procedures to enable the group to strengthen the q
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ality of its assessments.
30/08/2010 full text... |
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| UN Habitat gets new boss | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United Nations General Assembly has elected Joan Clos as the Executive Director of the UN-HABITAT to replace the long-serving Anna Tibaijuka.
30/08/2010 full text... |
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| Forum on future of Lake Chad holds 28 October | | Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA)- A world forum will be held 28-31 October in N'Djamena,
the Chadian capital, on the shrinking of Lake Chad, the Chadian Minister of Env
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ronment, Hassan Terap, announced Thursday in Yaounde, Cameroon, when he came to
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nvite Cameroonian authorities to the meeting.
27/08/2010 full text... |
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| UN-backed pact launches tool to check trade in endangered species | | New York, US (PANA) - The Trade Data Dashboard of the UN Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) on
Wednesday launched a new web-based interactive tool that enables users to view
trade data on wildlife and plants that was submitted by the 175 State parties
to the international agreement.
25/08/2010 full text... |
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| Mali guards against locust invasion | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - In anticipation of a locust invasion, the Malian governmen
t has decided to beef up its national stock of pesticides with 72,535 litres of
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LV (Ultra-Low Volume) products and set up an emergency response system, sources
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lose to the Ministry of Agriculture informed PANA here Tuesday.
24/08/2010 full text... |
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| 'West African giraffes endangered' | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Three giraffes at the Koure reserve, 60 km
west of the Niger capital Niamey, recently died in circumstances
still to be clarified, highlighting the serious threat of extinction confronting
the giraffe
populations in West Africa, an official source told PANA on Tuesday.
24/08/2010 full text... |
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| Mauritania to launch green-belt around Nouakchott | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian Government will on Saturday lau
nch a big reforestation operation aimed at building a green belt of about one mi
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lion trees in four years around Nouakchott to halt the advancement of the Sahara
desert.
20/08/2010 full text... |
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| Stakeholders to discuss sustainable forest management | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) â" An initiative by DR Congo for the Alleviation of C
arbon Emission, Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) will on Thursday bri
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g together stakeholders from the Ministry of Environment, the Congolese Civil So
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iety, NGOs, forest protection experts and professionals, to share and disseminat
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information related to the REDD process.
18/08/2010 full text... |
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| Libya sends relief materials to Mauritanian flood victims | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A Libyan freighter carrying 13 tonnes of flour, 250 equi
pped tents, 500 rescue kits and 600 mats, departed Tripoli Wednesday to Nouakcho
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t to assist the Mauritanian people hit by the recent floods in the country, PANA
reported from here.
18/08/2010 full text... |
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| Gambia launches 1-million, tree-planting exercise | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Following the rapid degradation of Forest resources in The Gambia, timber dealers have been called upon to replace any tree cut by planting a new one, the country's Director of Forestry, Abdoulie Sanneh, has ordered.
11/08/2010 full text... |
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| New web resource to boost environmental management | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Governments and other stakeholders can boost su
stainable development with the help of a new online resource that identifies eff
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ctive tools and approaches for getting the environment properly included in plan
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and decisions.
10/08/2010 full text... |
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| UN climate talks make progress | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Governments meeting at the UN Climate Change
Conference in Bonn, Germany, have made progress towards deciding the
shape of a successful result at the November/December UN Climate Change
Conference in Mexico, Climate Change top official, Christiana Figueres,
disclosed Friday.
06/08/2010 full text... |
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| Angolan flood victims to get homes | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A total of 2,500 low-cost houses are being built
in southern Cunene province of Angola to accommodate flood victims of the
rains that hit the region over the last three years, the Minister of
Environment, Fátima Jardim, disclosed.
06/08/2010 full text... |
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| USAID supports forest preservation in Mali | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government and the US Agency for International
Development (USAID) have signed an agreement for the implementation of a project
aimed at
reducing ion emissions as well as deforestation and forest degradation in Mali.
02/08/2010 full text... |
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| Libya to mediate in Nile crisis | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has begun mediating in the crisis involving upstre
am countries of the Nile
River and those downstream, according to the local media.
31/07/2010 full text... |
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| Illegal logging, hunting endanger Madagascar rainforests | | Brasilia, Brazil (PANA) - Illegal logging and hunting of endangered lemurs have vaulted the Rainforests of Atsinanana in Madagascar to the List of World Heritage in Danger, according to the World Heritage Committee which is holding its 34th session in Brasilia, the Brazilian capital.
30/07/2010 full text... |
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| Expert advocates strategies for re-use of waste water | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Countries with shortage of water sources, be they African or foreign, rich or poor, should find a strategy for the re-use of waste water in order to promote and diversify their water potentials, according to a top French water expert.
29/07/2010 full text... |
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| Experts in water purification meet in Libya | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Experts and specialists in the field of water purificati
on, representing 12 countries, began a workshop here Wednesday on "the appropria
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e techniques for the purification of waste water in Libya", PANA reported from t
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e Libyan capital.
28/07/2010 full text... |
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| Heads of ECOWAS National Meteorological Services meet in Abuja | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ninth meeting of the Committee of Heads of National Meteorological Services from ECOWAS member states opened in Abuja Monday with Minister of Aviation, Fidelia Njeze, tasking directors of meteorological services to evolve appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies to help combat the negative effect of climate change in the sub-region.
26/07/2010 full text... |
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| Downpour renders 150 families homeless in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Heavy rains that fell Thursday and Friday in the
village of Oulou M'boni, Guidimakha region, East-South of Mauritania, 600 kilom
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tres from Nouakchott, causing floods and huge material damage, rendered 147 fami
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ies homeless, state-owned press agency, AMI disclosed.
17/07/2010 full text... |
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| Heavy rains kill 42 in West, Central Africa | | Dakar, Senegal ( PANA) - Heavy rains that fell in June on the West and
Central Africa resulted in 42 deaths, while over 35,000 victims were
rendered homeless, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA) revealed in its humanitarian newsletter, sent to PANA.
08/07/2010 full text... |
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