Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The population of mature fish stocks in Lake Naivasha, experts warn, is still too meagre for commercial exploitation eight months after the government banned fishing in the lake. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- An alarming drop in Tanzania's rhino population has led authorities to seek a breeder stock from South Africa and set up a sanctuary for black rhinos that is protected by armed guards round the clock. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A special task force has been formed to look into modalities for lifting a fishing ban imposed on Lake Naivasha, one of the two only fresh water lakes in the Rift Valley. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African Ministers and other stakeholders have started discussions on a continental position ahead of the September 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities Wednesday appointed a task force to evaluate and make recommendations on the management of Lake Naivasha to ensure that the fish stock and waters were not depleted. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Large foreign fishing Companies, capitalising on the decade-long chaos in Somalia are plundering the country's rich marine life and destroying its aquaculture, a Somali civic leader revealed in Nairobi Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A giant cargo ship which sank off Scarborough near Cape Town six weeks ago, was refloated following some dramatic rescue operations early Wednesday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- An environmental awareness campaign on the theme "civil society and environment", dubbed Environment Fortnight, started Tuesday on Benin radio and television. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- An international conference to strengthen the protection of the earth's fast depleting Ozone Layer opens in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African experts and NGOs began wide-ranging consultations in Nairobi Monday, to prepare a continental position for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) scheduled September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Full text...

Benguela- Angola (PANA) -- Three humanitarian agencies in Angola, have provided relief materials to some 430 families affected by floods in Dombe Grande Commune of the coastal Benguela province. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The virgin rain forest of the Equator province in DR Congo is the unique habitat of the big monkey, locally called "bonobo", a naturalist association said Wednesday in Kinshasa. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Conservationists and environmentalists in Namibia have begun a campaign to save the Cape Griffon vulture, one of the country's most endangered species currently threatened with extinction. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- For the driest country in southern Africa, there is indeed a reason to celebrate. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Scientists in a chartered helicopter Monday began recording and photographing all whale sightings along South Africa's Cape coastline to monitor trends in numbers and reproductive parameters of this once severely depleted population. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Polish company has introduced a novel house construction method using plastic, which promises to revolutionise the building industry and save receding national forests. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Zambezi valley ecosystem has been selected as one of a group of ecosystems world-wide to benefit from the 600 million US dollar Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) project of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- DR Congo is currently implementing the framework Convention on climatic changes, project coordinator Maurice Matanda Kafunda hinted earlier this week. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Retired South African President Nelson Mandela opened the giant Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park on Thursday saying the world could use it as an example of how to improve relations between nations. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Municipal authorities in Zimbabwe's capital Harare Thursday introduced stringent environmental pollution checks, and stiffer penalties for offenders. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde is reviewing its poverty reduction strategy with the aim of integrating desertification control and biodiversity preservation as essential components of the national plan, a government source said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Lack of spatial information is partly to blame for unplanned settlements, slum dwellings, pollution and poverty in Africa, experts meeting in Nairobi have observed. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Arab Environment Ministers were gearing up for the 13th session of their council meeting slated to convene in Cairo 24 October to develop environment friendly actions in the Arab world. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Delegates from member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are currently reflecting in Abidjan on ways to lasting development in the sub region, organisers said Tuesday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Within 10 years, Cameroon has experienced 75 natural disasters which cost the state five billion CFA francs, the secretary of state for regional administration, Adamou Modi, said in Yaounde Monday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Some 10,000 ancient date palms in the Ingall palm grove 850 km north of Niamey are in danger, as wells subside and the oasis in which they were planted gradually silt up, the weekly Sahel Dimanche magazine has warned. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Some 400 disgruntled sand extractors, who are members of the 1200-strong Lagoon sand extracting owners and employees common front in Mauritius, demonstrated Monday in Port Louis against a government ban on extraction. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African wildlife television newsmagazine, "50/50" has won the 2001 Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Pal Award. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In a fresh bid to clean Nairobi, the city council has issued an order banning the careless disposal of waste, which it says has become a common feature near schools, churches and other institutions. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The president of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires, is to attend the fifth session of the parties conference on the UN convention on desertification control (COP 5) to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1 to 12 October. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian capital, Accra, is being clogged by tons of refuse as city authorities and residents disagree over dump sites. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The precarious water situation remains a priority issue on the agenda as the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) introduces reforms, a senior official has stated. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- International efforts to save the world's remaining great apes has received a big boost following a pledge from the government of the United Kingdom. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana has donated four hippopotamus to Malaysia, where they will be used to attract visitors to one of the country's wetlands. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- A meeting of the World Commission on Protected Areas, planned to be held 1-5 October in Tanzania, has been put off following the recent terrorist attacks in the United States. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The United Nations Development Programme has promised to cooperate with Libya in the areas of environmental protection, the preservation of natural resources, and urban planning. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Communities from the three East African countries living around Lake Victoria are at loggerheads over fishing rights. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya plans new guidelines for strict enforcement of its newly enacted Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act, Environmental Conservation Minister Katana Ngala, announced Monday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese National Forests Authority has announced it is suspending for two years, the issuance of licenses for new agricultural schemes in natural forest zones. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The Benin National Museum for natural sciences is hosting a week-long fair in November to raise public awareness on the preservation of biodiversity. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan high court Friday permanently blocked Tiomin Kenya Limited, a subsidiary of Tiomin Incorporated of Canada, from mining titanium in Kwale District on the Indian Ocean coast. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- President Pedro Pires of Cape Verde Thursday signed sub regional convention establishing a Foundation for Sustainable Development in the Sahel (FSDS), mooted to collect and manage funds for desertification control. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan citizens will be amongst 38 million people cleaning up the world over the weekend of 21-23 September, uniting individuals and communities in 123 nations, Clean Up the World is a non-profit global event, held in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's finance minister, Katele Kalumba, Thursday expressed concern over the survival of the black lechwe in the country's northern Bangweulu plains. Full text...

Sidi Bouzid- Tunisia (PANA) -- Three people died in serious flooding Wednesday at Tunisia's central region of Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian press agency reported. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Zambian government has adopted a conservation strategy and environmental action plan with a view to redressing the imbalance incidental to the pursuit of development and environmental conservation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Dutch government has stopped funding environmental projects in Kenya, a daily said Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A high level meeting to discuss ways of promoting water resources development in Africa opens in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least two people have reportedly been killed while several others lost their limbs in the past month following crocodiles attacks in Kenya's River Sio of Busia District near the Uganda border. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Lake Nakuru in the Kenyan Rift- Valley, a world famous flamingo sanctuary, is currently experiencing unstable water level fluctuation due to erratic weather and extensive deforestation of the basin's catchment areas. Full text...