Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - In a move to improve wildlife conservation programme while protecting the endangered mountain gorillas, Rwanda's volcanoes national park has been expanded to an additional 27.8 hectares, an official source confirmed Wednesday in Kigali. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Thursday said it is advocating a collaboration between the international conservation community and palm oil developers in order to create sustainable strategies that will save fragile ecosystems and the species that inhabit them, particularly apes. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan wildlife conservationists have stepped up a campaign against the construction of a new high speed railway because of its routing inside the country's wildlife parks. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The environment campaign group, Greenpeace Africa, has revealed that the DR Congo government has secretly breached its own moratorium on new logging titles by granting three concessions on a total of 650.000 hectares. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The first negotiating session of a Preparatory Committee established Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Greenpeace International Thursday said Africa’s forests are under threat as Socfin Company’s expansion plans in a dozen countries are threatening forests that are essential for the preservation of climate balances, biodiversity and communities livelihood. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Thursday elected Ugandan national, Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya to serve as its new president. Full text...

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - On the eve of the heads-of-state summit of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation in South Africa, a group of respected Chinese and African civil society leaders and celebrities called the China-Africa Wildlife Conservation Council are shining a spotlight on the role of wildlife conservation in sustainable economic development. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Villagers from the larger Nakuru County in central Kenya, are fighting the adverse effects of climate change by voluntarily planting more trees and preventing soil erosion to save the ecosystem from the adverse weather effectsunder a European Union-funded project. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) –Thomson Safaris, a leader in responsible Tanzanian Safaris, has partnered with African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) to further its conservation efforts in East Africa, with the aim of enabling travellers to effect positive change and become ambassadors for conservation in Africa. Full text...

Musanze, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Saturday witnessed the 11th annual naming ritual for 24 gorillas, born during the past 12 months in the country's northern Volcanoes National Park, where he urged residents of the neighbourhood to strive for self-sufficiency through utilisation of the abundant natural resources. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan government Tuesday imported seven lions from South Africa to its national Akagera Park, located in the eastern part of the country, as part of the ongoing national tourism campaign dedicated to re-introduce endangered animals, official sources told PANA in Kigali. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Conservationists from Central and West Africa will Saturday embark on a week-long trek through Cameroon’s Dja Faunal Reserve to determine levels of biodiversity and human activity in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) said Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The African Media Initiative (AMI) has entered into an agreement with the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) with the aim of solidifying media involvement in wildlife conservation efforts on the continent, AMI said in a statement Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The world has more conservation areas than ever before, but more funding is needed, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Africa’s experts in conservation and management of natural resources are due to meet 22-24 October 2014 in Arusha, Tanzania, to discuss how they would promote collaboration among different stakeholders for a regional framework on sustainable mountain development, it was announced here Monday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Countries responsible for the conservation of biodiversity within the the Greater Virunga, shared by Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement to protect endangered species. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) is to take advantage of the experience of participants at a workshop on the conservation of great apes to establish a good policy to ensure the conservation of these species in DR Congo, Benoît Kisuki, director in charge of scientific and technical studies at ICCN, said on Wednesday. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Former US President Bill Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea, on Friday visited conservation projects of the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) in Zambia, a visit that will surely put the spotlight on the important work of the Foundation. Full text...

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...