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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Gambia on Monday reiterated its commitment to protecting its forests and wildlife as it hosts two major continental meetings on forestry and conservation

©- - 03 december 2025 - 09:50:45 - thread (507 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – The first of its kind African Summit on biodiversity conservation opened in Gaborone on Wednesday, banking on goodwill from African leaders, to agree a landmark proposal to create a new green conservation fund to substitute dwindling donor-funding

©- - 05 november 2025 - 11:24:20 - thread (338 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Talks on the creation of a US$800 million environmental support facility to be funded from 1% of the Gross Domestic Product of all African countries to support green conservation has been launched at the inaugural Biodiversity Summit in Gaborone

©- - 03 november 2025 - 20:37:19 - thread (588 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Ten critically endangered black rhinos were successfully translocated from South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique this week

©- - 20 june 2025 - 08:35:02 - thread (187 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Eastern Cape High Court on Thursday ruled that the exploration rights granted by South Africa to Impact Africa and Shell oil giant were illegal and they would not be permitted to carry out a seismic survey in the Indian Ocean

©- - 02 september 2022 - 12:27:42 - thread (227 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius government Friday declared the Mauritius Kestrel (Falco punctatus) a 'National Bird' to coincide with the 30th

©- - 18 december 2021 - 09:22:23 - thread (158 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Commercial aviation has largely interfered with the conservation of wildlife species and promoted trade in rare birds, snakes and other reptiles which are exported from West Africa to destinations in Europe and Asia, where they are traded as pets and shipped to international zoos

©- - 04 september 2021 - 17:07:10 - thread (739 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa has saluted the directors of South Africa's documentary, My Octopus Teacher, which won an Oscar on Sunday

©- - 26 april 2021 - 15:21:09 - thread (195 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) -  The Mauritian Government on Friday announced that a financial agreement will be signed shortly between the European Union and the Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security for the part financing of the “Mauritius Ridge to Reef Project” to a tune of 4 million euros

©- - 19 december 2020 - 08:34:35 - thread (161 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Six alleged traffickers of wildlife products, accused of wildlife crime, will be arraigned in court on Wednesday in Ouesso, capital of the Sangha department, northern Congo, according to the Congolese public radio

©- - 06 october 2020 - 16:54:37 - thread (349 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has urged Algeria, Tunisia and Libya to take urgent transboundary and sectoral measures to address the degradation of the Northern Sahara Aquifer System (SSAS), shared by the three countries

©- - 30 september 2020 - 18:54:51 - thread (322 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Thursday announced the delivery of 11,400 bamboo plants to Rwanda as part of efforts to assist the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), an official source said here

©- - 27 august 2020 - 22:46:53 - thread (376 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - World Economic Forum and partners has launched the first regional chapter of 1t

©- - 27 august 2020 - 11:22:02 - thread (219 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  A forest fire suspected to have been caused by burning activities broke out earlier this week inside a major national park of Nyungwe in South Western Rwanda, a senior local administrative official in the region confirmed here Friday

©- - 14 august 2020 - 23:55:12 - thread (146 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Pan-Africa eco-tourism business, Wilderness Safaris, which has its headquarters in Botswana, has announced plans to set a new environment benchmark at one of its tourism camps

©- - 24 july 2020 - 08:58:15 - thread (335 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana's elephant management plans are at an advanced stage, the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism said on Tuesday

©- - 14 july 2020 - 08:56:55 - thread (240 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The death of the world's most famous elephant, fondly known as Tim, the 'Big Tusker', has shocked the wildlife conservation community

©- - 05 february 2020 - 21:27:42 - thread (512 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A migratory Osprey bird, rescued after making an epic 6,948-km flight from Finland to western Kenya, has died from organ failure caused by starvation during its long flight, conservationists said Monday

©- - 27 january 2020 - 19:33:29 - thread (418 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA)  - The Botswana Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism(MENRT) said here Saturday that two hunters had surrendered their hunting licenses for shooting and killing a collared research elephant

©- - 14 december 2019 - 21:04:28 - thread (156 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania is finalizing preparations for establishing three new national parks which will cover a total of 47,000 square meters

©- - 23 november 2019 - 16:06:41 - thread (173 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The acceleration of climate change in the world will result in the loss of more than 60% of agricultural jobs that currently exist, which will pose new challenges and the need to find solutions in Tunisia and other countries," said the Tunisian Minister of Local Affairs and Environment, Mokhtar Hammami

©- - 19 november 2019 - 17:31:18 - thread (146 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  Tunisia Sunday celebrated its National Tree Day, providing free of charge 20 forest plants free of charge for each citizen toward the exercise

©- - 10 november 2019 - 13:36:35 - thread (206 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Land Rover Expedition Tour 2019, a biennial event, currently underway in southern Africa, will end in Botswana's Okavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), its organisers said on Friday

©- - 08 november 2019 - 15:19:30 - thread (428 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Two persons have been arrested in Dolisie town of southern Congo on charges of trafficking  panther skins and teeth, the public radio announced on Thursday,

 

Their arrest was carried out by agents of the Niari Departmental Forest Economy Directorate and gendarmes

©- - 24 october 2019 - 14:38:35 - thread (154 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The "Landscape Restoration and Resilience in Burundi" (PRPB) Project was officially launched on Thursday by the Minister of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock, Déo Guide Rurema, with funding from the World Bank (WB), up to US$ 30 million, reported the public radio and television (RTNB) from Muyinga, one of the pilot provinces in the north-east of the country

©- - 17 october 2019 - 16:08:32 - thread (1124 words)


Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA)  -  A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released Wednesday on the sidelines of the Africa Climate Risks Conference (ACRC) currently taking place here has warned that land is under growing human pressure across many parts of the Sub-Saharan African region

©- - 09 october 2019 - 23:04:02 - thread (458 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi is preparing to sign the amendment to the Montreal (Canada) Protocol on the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Climate, the Burundian Minister of the Environment, Déo Guide Rurema, said Sunday on the Public Broadcasters (RTNB), on the eve of the celebration of the World Day Against Ultraviolet Radiation of the Sun, Harmful to Human Beings

©- - 16 september 2019 - 20:15:30 - thread (477 words)