Malanje, Angola (PANA) - Angolan authorities have expressed their satisfaction with the ongoing project to protect the extinction-threatened giant sable antelope in the Kangandala National Park, Angola’s northern Malanje province. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The World Bank Wednesday announced a US$52 million package to support conservation efforts in 30 national parks and three newly-protected areas, covering some 2.7 million hectares of land in Madagascar. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Harmful practices such as bush fires, excessive cutting of timber and occupation of forest reserves in Mali are causing economic losses of about 61.2 billion FCFA per year, or 1 8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to the country, the Ministry of Environment and Sanitation disclosed to PANA here Wednesday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) will send helicopters to facilitate the transportation of orphaned gorillas to a new sanctuary in a natural reserve of Tanya in North Kivu province. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A damning new report obtained by PANA here Tuesday accus es Tanzania and Zambia, which are bidding to be allowed to dispose of their ivory stockpiles at next monthâ?s 15th Convention of Intern ational Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar, for laxity in protection of the elephants. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Forestry Service (KFS) is implementing an ambi tious environment conservation project in Meru South District, eastern Kenya, at a cost of. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- More than 2,000 Kenyan youth are this week gathering in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, for a series of soccer tournaments organised to sensitise the public on peaceful co-ex istence and environmental conservation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- World's track super-star Usain Bolt of Jamaica has arr ived in Kenya on his first African trip, to spearhead an environmental campaign t hat would see him adopt a cheetah, the world's fastest animal, his Kenyan hosts said on Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyaâ?s forest conservation efforts received a rare bo ost late Tuesday when former US President Bill Clinton pledged to mobilise funds to help the East African countr y increase its forest cover from the current 1. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Delegates from 20 countries, who attended a two-day conf erence in Frankfurt, Germany, to mark the UN Year of the Gorilla, have launched a global campaign to conserve humankind’s second closest relative, according to a news release from UNEP received here Friday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Tourism Minister Fernando Sumbana has reiterated the importance of upgrading the management of conservation areas to the highest standards to allow sustainable use of the country's natural resources. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya plans to raise funds internationally for its wildlife conservation efforts as a means of forestalling a potential decline in the number of wild animals in its national parks and game reserves, a senior official said here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The French Government has partnered with Kenya in an ambitious 4 billion shillings (about US$59 million) undertaking to finance four environmental conservation and rehabilitation projects in the eastern African country, according to officials Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has re-affirmed its commitment to the conservation and management of its flora and fauna and will continue to oppose the trade in ivory products as a means to conserve its dwindling elephant population, the country’s vice-president Moody Awori said here Wednesday. Full text...

Mombasa- Kenya (PANA) -- Haller Park, the environmental conservation and public recreational haven in the Kenyan coastal port city of Mombasa, is best known as a place where two wild animals, who normally do not see eye to eye, defied nature and decided to co-exist. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Grevy Zebra, which 70 percent of its world population is found in the northern Kenyan grasslands of Laikipia is threatened with extinction due to pasture conflicts with livestock, the country's wildlife conservationists warned Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- East African countries have embarked on a major training programme for beach management units around Lake Victoria to stem the growing threat of over-fishing in the second largest fresh water mass in the world, media reports said here Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Nicaise Kibel-Bel, editor of DR Congo's fortnightly newspaper "Les coulisses," is one of 17 winners of the 2006 Alexander Abraham Prize for nature conservation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has, through its Global Environment Facility (GEF), started an environmental conservation and management project in one of Kenya's arid and semi arid district. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) – A Kenyan environmental con-servation committee in the southern district has reached an accord with the Netherlands Development Organisation, SNV, to train Kenyans on environmental conservation and management. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A number of Kenyan groups have teamed up to salvage Lake Nakuru, one of Kenya's famous bird and wildlife havens internationally known for its flamingo population, from degradation as a result of adverse human activity. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has described his Tuesday meeting with local leaders of the wild coast region of the Eastern Cape as "frank, necessary, and very constructive. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Wildlife conservationists in three arid and semi arid northern Kenya districts have formed a task force to study traditional methods of conservation and conflict resolution in order to recommend possible areas of external assistance to modernise them. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) through the Inter-Africa Bureau for Animals (IBAR) plans to raise 250 million Kenya shillings to develop community wildlife conservation initiatives in Kenya over three years (1 US dollar = 74Kshs). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has expressed opposition to a recent decision by Kenyan authorities to downgrade one of the country's national parks to a National Reserve status. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The DR Congo Institute for the Conservation of Nature, ICCN, has initiated national consultations towards the review of the country's conservation law. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's forestry officials, regional administrators and wildlife service personnel from the central and eastern provinces Monday held a crisis meeting in Chuka, a town 200 km north of Nairobi, to redress the deteriorating conservation situation around Mount Kenya forest region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate, environmentalist Wangari Maathai, Sunday appealed to G-8 countries to support initiatives that would sustain the world's environment-friendly programmes. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki urged his compatriots to close ranks in a general mobilisation to protect the environment, as he launched this year's National Tree Planting season Friday in Nairobi. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa is among seven leaders selected by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as champions of the Earth for the world to follow. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- G8 (Group of eight world economic powers) members can reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of the world's poorest people by halting the loss of biodiversity and improving the protection of ecosystems, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) suggested Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) has called on world leaders to redouble their efforts in fighting environmental degradation and massive chemical pollution across the globe. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Animal conservationists in Kenya on Tuesday disagreed with President Mwai Kibaki's government plan to send 20 wild animal species to Thailand. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African countries are hardening their positions ahead of a major CITES conference set to open Saturday in Bangkok, Thailand, where those opposing a total ban on wildlife trade are expected to clash with supporters of the ban. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have pledged US$16 million in support of Kenya government's efforts to conserve forests. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- When the inhabitants of Gazi village in Kenya's southern Indian Ocean coastal region saw over 200 Caucasians arrive two weeks ago, they no doubt must have mistaken them for tourists who flock the region to sample the 'sun and sand' that have made the area famous. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) announced Wednesday an ambitious plan to curb poaching in a major wildlife conservation area of DR Congo. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) is to fund major rehabilitation works to revive the rapidly drying Lake Jipe on the border with Tanzania, under a programme that also seeks to improve the livelihoods of communities living around the water mass. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A senior official in the Kenyan ministry of Environment has said the country needs to review its Wildlife conservation and management laws and define a comprehensive policy to address human/wildlife conflicts. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A record four million rand has been raised from the private sector for wildlife projects in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province, according to KwaZulu-Natal wildlife chief executive officer Khulani Mkhize (1 USD - R6. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Communities living in arid and semi-arid areas neighbouring Mount Kenya forest in Kenya's Meru and Laikipia districts will through a local community forest conservation and management project initiate development ventures aimed at uplifting living standards of the local population. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan wildlife conservation group is unhappy with the local Wildlife Management Act, alleging it was outdated and a hindrance to the government and community efforts in wildlife conservation and management. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in conjunction with a Kenyan-based environmental group will spend about US$100,000 in afforestation and re-forestation programmes in the country's southern plains, famous for abundant flora and fauna. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In an initiative dubbed the "Uhai (Kiswahili for Life) Lake Forum," several organisations working with riparian fishing communities have mobilised to halt pollution and excessive exploitation now degrading Lake Victoria's biodiversity. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The World Bank has expressed satisfaction with the implementation of the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has unveiled an ambitious plan aimed at designing and developing strategies to tackle the perennial problem of human-wildlife conflict in the coastal district of Taita-Taveta district, bordering the world famous Tsavo National Park. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Leaders from Kenya's northern arid and desert wastelands districts of Isiolo and Marsabit are angry over an ambitious wildlife conservation project in the region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya plans to boost its black rhino population as part of efforts to conserve the species, the Director of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Evans Mukolwe announced in Nairobi Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The first animals to be relocated to South Africa's Usuthu Gorge Community Conservation Area have arrived in the northern Zululand park. Full text...

Malindi- Kenya (PANA) -- European Union's head of delegation in Kenya Gary Quince on Saturday officially handed over two rehabilitated conservation projects to officials of the Indian Ocean coastal district of Malindi. Full text...