Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian Environment minister Gilbert Bleu Laine has said the country would by 2010 need an estimated 56,000 million francs CFA (74. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Catches of some key fish stocks have been falling sharply off the West Coast of Africa with the decline being linked to over-fishing by foreign fleets, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Vice-President George Saitoti Thursday urged stakeholders in the country's wildlife sub-sector to seek sustainable methods of resolving wildlife-related conflicts in parts of the country. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana will seek CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) permission during the organisation's forthcoming conference to cull excess elephants for ivory. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- British Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett is currently visiting South Africa to assess the country's efforts to build a sustainable future. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), in conjunction with a local wildlife conservation and management body, has organised week long wild game census covering the northern Kenya districts of Laikipia, Samburu and Isiolo. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Nairobi-based UN settlement agency Habitant, has announced an ambitious programme to upgrade the standards of living of slum dwellers in eight African cities. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Decision makers in cleaner production and sustainable consumption from 16 African countries will meet this week in Arusha, Tanzania, to prepare a regional input for the forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Third World Water Forum, to take place in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2003 will highlight action being taken to implement solutions to global water problems. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Tropical cyclone 'Harry' Sunday morning hit the eastern coast of Madagascar, notably the north- eastern town of Antalaha. Full text...

Sousse- Tunisia (PANA) -- The biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Management has set up a branch for Africa. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Vegetables contaminated with polluted water of River Kaduna in northern Nigeria may have spread across the country, posing a serious threat to the consumers' health, Environment Minister Kabir Sa'id has said. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria is to host a meeting next week of NGOs from developing countries ahead of the Third Earth Summit, slated for September in Johannesburg, South Africa. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The guide of the Libyan revolution, Col. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The fate of the world's forests is inextricably linked to that of more than 500 million poor people living in and around forested areas, two leading forestry organisations says in a report released Thursday in London. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- High poverty levels, estimated at 80 percent of the total population, have been identified as the main cause of widespread deforestation and land degradation in Zambia. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Four Africans are among finalists announced for this year's Whitley Laing Foundation conservation awards programme, according to a press release from organisers of the awards. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Scientists working under the United National Environment Programme (UNEP) have developed several new initiatives aimed at mitigating the impact of climate change on developing countries. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- An unusual heat has crept into Nigeria, indicating the looming sign of El Nino, five years after the devastating weather pattern engulfed the globe, destroying lives and property, weather experts said. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- More than 50 of Benin's executives from the government agencies on environment, housing and town planning ministry are currently reviewing the country's national report on the implementation of Agenda 21. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Scores of jackals have gone on the rampage in the forest and mountain areas of rural Bujumbura, biting at least 20 persons in recent times, villagers from the vicinity have said. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- A national report written by Togo on the Volta River Basin has been validated at a workshop attended by some one hundred environmental specialists and representatives of international organisations and NGOs at the ECOWAS Fund in Lome. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The governor of garbage-strewn Conakry, M'Bemba Bangoura, Friday vowed to turn the Guinean capital into "a clean city" by using all means at his disposal. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Up to 1,000 tons of crayfish have crawled out of the sea at South Africa's Elands Bay, north of Cape Town because of a lack of oxygen in the water caused by rotting plankton. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzanian authorities said Thursday that they had averted a possible extinction of a rare and endemic toad whose survival was threatened by the damming and diversion of water from its natural habitat. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) Monday concluded a two-day trans-location of a herd of elephants, which had terrorised people in the southern semi-arid district of Kajiado. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan lioness, which has adopted two baby oryxes in less than two months in the expansive Samburu Game Reserve, some 250 Km north east of Nairobi, is hunting for a third one, conservation officials said Monday. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian NGO, SAPO (Soli darité-Anti-Pollution-Ouest), Monday urged tourism promoters to help preserve the Bénitiers Islet, on the western coast of the country. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Botswana government is about to enact an environment management act aimed at integrating the conservation of natural resources into the development process. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ten leaking containers loaded with toxic pesticides are creating a serious threat to human health and the environment at the port of Djibouti, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in Addis Ababa Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Unusually heavy rains and floods are expected in Eastern Africa during the long rains between March and May, weather experts warned Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Rally of Senegalese Environmentalists (RES) was Thursday barred from staging a protest against the felling of trees along Dakar's Leopold Sedar Senghor Avenue. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Between three and four billion people, most of them Africans, will not have access to clean and potable water by 2025, according to a French company, Suez. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The baby oryx, adopted by a lioness on Valentine's Day only to be separated after two days by game wardens in Kenya's expansive Samburu National Park, is in good health, conservation officials said Thursday. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The Namibia Ports Authority (Namports) has embarked on a project to bring the ports of Walvis Bay and Luderitiz in line with standards set by the International Standard Organisation (ISO), a voluntary environmental management outfit. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Environment experts and scientists from three East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, Wednesday began a three-day seminar in Kenya's highlands town of Eldoret, on the pollution of Lake Victoria. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- A meeting focussing on forestry issues in the African continent opened Monday in Arusha, Tanzania with the government pledging to amend in May the country's laws governing the exploitation of forests in order to stop rapid deforestation. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- A recent research project by 30 students from Namibia's two high institutions of learning has linked the fast depletion of natural resources in a given country to the fast expansion of its population. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A group of experts from the Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) converged in Nairobi Monday for a two day workshop on climate change and its ramification on global weather. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has been in a state of alert since Sunday in anticipation of a tropical storm called Guillaume which was said to be 440 km north-northeast of the Indian Ocean island. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The lioness which adopted a second baby antelope on Valentines Day is looking for another one to mother after game wardens separated her from the 'baby', local newspapers reported Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- International Water Secretariat (SIE) chief executive Raymond Jost has warned that privatisation of the water sector in Africa would serve no meaningful end if it fails to meet the needs of grassroots communities. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia is preparing a national wildlife policy as a basic guideline for improving conservation of wildlife resources with the ultimate goal of boosting the economy, Agriculture Vice Minister Gebremedhin Belay has said. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Stakeholders on the environment in Reunion have begun preparations to draft proposals for presentation at the Johannesburg conference on sustainable development. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government says it has provided 10 million rand (869,000 US dollars) to start the South African Coelacanth Conservation and Genome Research Programme. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Scientists in the country have expressed fears for the survival of Gnetum Spp, a wild plant with proven nutritional and medicinal values, currently under intense and uncontrolled exploitation in central and southern Cameroon. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- "Tele-solidarity," a campaign to raise funds for people stricken by the recent cyclone in Mauritius, has mobilised some two million rupees (about 66,670 US dollars), the organisers said Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has expressed concern about the survival of the rare marine dugong or sea cow, after a study said the population of the species was on the decline. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Thirty-five years on, the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) has conceded that it still has numerous challenges in the search for ways to sustain resources and development. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Toyota South Africa has extended its successful Urban Conservancy Project (UCP), launched in the Free State Province in 1996, to KwaZulu-Natal. Full text...