http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife EssentialAfrica Drum Environment en 60 http://reliefweb.int/node/498149 In early January 2012, Desert Locust infestations were reported in SW Libya near Ghat. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#10365 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:27:52 +0200 http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/fashola-laments-oil-pollution-lagos Says residents in the Ilado and Baruwa communities have experienced disease outbreaks http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#10359 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:21:03 +0200 http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1317 The Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island site coincides with the core zone of La Réunion National Park. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#10304 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:35:56 +0200 http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/kenya-relocating-rhinos-in-fear-of-poachers-1.1294580?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_source=sabreakingnews Claus Mortensen is a private Kenyan rancher with a passion - endangered rhinos - and now a mission: http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#10235 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:42:20 +0200 http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2012/may/article/sealers-not-happy-with-more-players/ Existing seal harvesting right holders are not happy with the addition three more new rights holders ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#10178 Tue, 8 May 2012 16:39:20 +0200 http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/04/spotless-cheetah-spotted-in-kenya-by-briton/ Guy Combes, originally from Shaftesbury, Dorset, scoured 100,000 acres of land in Kenya using a Land Rover and even a plane before he tracked it down. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#10031 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:37:03 +0200 http://www.africasciencenews.org/en/index.php/entertainment/52-environment/407-new-project-to-tackle-fragile-mt-kilimanjaro-ecosystems A new research and development project that will address the problems and impact of climate change and variability... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#10024 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:24:18 +0200 http://www.earthday.org/2012 On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Mobilize the Earth™. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9972 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:45:32 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Outcry-over-Nigerian-gas-leak-20120415 French oil firm Total SA said on Saturday that a natural gas leak at one of its plants in Nigeria's crude-rich southern delta may have been going on for weeks. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9880 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:47:41 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17675816 Despite a 23-year ban on international trade in ivory, elephants continue to be shot for their prized tusks, with much of the material ending up on sale in China. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9868 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:50:00 +0200 http://www.un.org/en/africarenewal/vol26no1/to-rio-and-beyond.html Paving the path to “the future we want” http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9674 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:10:55 +0200 http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2012/03/29/kenya-authorities-shoot-dead-6-suspected-poachers?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sabreakingnews Kenya Wildlife Service rangers shot and killed three suspected poachers in a national park in the latest in a series of poacher killings amid a rise in elephant deaths, http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9672 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:06:06 +0200 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/20123229592167488.html Week-long blaze destroys thousands of hectares of forest crucial for water catchment and threatens wildlife. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9565 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:12:53 +0100 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Car+washing+barred+on+shores+of+Lake+Victoria++/-/1056/1370766/-/2mggfwz/-/index.html Car washing has been prohibited on the shores of Lake Victoria to curb pollution. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9549 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:32:17 +0100 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/TZ+loses+battle+over+Serengeti+road+project+/-/1066/1367234/-/76ffkiz/-/index.html Tanzania’s appeal to block a case against the construction of a highway across the Serengeti National Park was dismissed on Thursday by the East African Court of Justice. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9455 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:14:11 +0100 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/South+Africa+game+dealer+gets+8+year+jail+term+for+rhino+horns+/-/1066/1366412/-/10jmt62/-/index.html A South African wildlife dealer was sentenced to eight years in jail over 38 horns cut off sedated rhinos, a measure which, he said Wednesday, was meant to protect them from poaching. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9440 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:53:42 +0100 http://www.africareview.com/News/Botswana+steps+up+war+on+poaching/-/979180/1365272/-/13ox3xi/-/index.html Botswana is set to engage security agents as it steps up its war against poaching. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9408 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:46:45 +0100 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/20123522346608357.html Tropical storm Irina left at least 65 people dead, most of them residents in southeast of the island. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9304 Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:03:15 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17126335 A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9160 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:15:15 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Wildlife-Group-Poachers-Kill-200-Elephants-in-Cameroon-139487163.html A wildlife group says poachers in Cameroon have slaughtered at least 200 elephants for their tusks ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9108 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:17:43 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17025328 A tropical cyclone has hit the island of Madagascar, with winds of up to 194km (120mph) ripping up trees and electricity pylons. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#9063 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:21:55 +0100 http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/rare-snowfall-in-libya-1.1229044?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_source=sabreakingnews Several parts of Libya received a rare snowfall, including one town approximately 70 km southwest of the capital, Tripoli. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8970 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:25:01 +0100 http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/mandela/2012/02/03/mandela-s-chef-releases-cookbook?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sabreakingnews&utm_source=twitterfeed Personal chef to Madiba, Xoliswa Ndoyiya has just launched her cookery book Ukutya Kwasekhaya: Tastes from Nelson Mandela’s Kitchen. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8911 Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:23:16 +0100 http://www.thestatecolumn.com/science/paleontologists-discover-strange-crocodile-like-creature-in-africa/ A team of paleontologists have reportedly discovered a strange crocodile-like creature that is thought to have lived in the Late Cretaceous period, about 95 million years ago. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8887 Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:34:30 +0100 http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Baboons-wreak-havoc-at-Zim-border-post-20120131 Troops of bag-snatching, truck-looting baboons are causing chaos at a border post... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8857 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:49:27 +0100 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-26-mozambicans-forcefully-evacuated-during-flooding-fears/ Mozambican authorities are forcefully moving people away from flood risk areas ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8793 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:29:48 +0100 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/24/oldest-dinosaur-nests-south-africa Massospondylus nesting site – with fossilised eggs and tiny footprints – is 100m years older than any previously discovered http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8768 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:49:52 +0100 http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-01-25-sahel-set-to-suffer-the-consequences-of-famine-fatigue For the third time in the past 10 years, drought has returned to stalk the Sahel ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8766 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:45:52 +0100 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Mozambique-tropical-storm-kills-five-20120119 Five people died and thousands were affected in the first tropical storm to hit southern Mozambique since 1984, an official said on Thursday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8679 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:21:21 +0100 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106459&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Several years ago, Lakes Kamnarok and Ol Bollosat in Kenya were vibrant water bodies... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8643 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:14:30 +0100 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-13-rhino-lovers-issue-ultimatum Pressure on the government to stem the slaughter of rhinos is mounting in the run-up to public hearings on poaching that will be hosted in Parliament later this month. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8589 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:56:30 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16486549 A new species of brightly coloured snake has been found in a remote area of Tanzania in East Africa. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8517 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:05:59 +0100 http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00015146.html The Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community plans to take their chief to court over a controversial 50-year land lease to a UK mining company. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8439 Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:13:10 +0100 http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Tanzania-elephant-numbers-drop-20120103 The number of elephants in two wildlife sanctuaries in Tanzania has fallen by nearly 42% in just three years, a census showed on Tuesday, as poachers increasingly killed the animals for their tusks. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8402 Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:41:30 +0100 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Congo-bans-69-Chinese-fishing-boats-20111230 The Republic of Congo has banned 69 Chinese fishing boats from its waters for illicit activities, Fisheries Minister Dieudonne Kiessiekiaoua said Friday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8356 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:22:32 +0100 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/travelnews/2011/12/111228-mountain-gorillas-king-grooming-uganda-tourist-animals/ "Gentle" encounter should still remain extremely rare, experts warn. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8347 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:09:34 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16353204 More elephant tusks were seized in 2011 than in any year since 1989, when the ivory trade was banned, international wildlife trade group Traffic says. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8333 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:14:40 +0100 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/royal-dutch-shell-says-worst-nigeria-offshore-oil-spill-in-more-than-a-decade-now-contained/2011/12/26/gIQAHlP2IP_story.html The worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade has been contained before reaching the West African nation’s coast, officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday, less than a week after one of its lines bled crude into the Atlantic Ocean. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8282 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:27:30 +0100 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/12/26/shell-says-nigerian-oil-spill-cleaned/ Royal Dutch Shell says an oil spill in the waters off Nigeria has been stopped and oil “largely dispersed” less than a week after the leak began, and before the oil reached the West African nation's coastline. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8265 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:38:15 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16320764 The head of Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, has warned that a recent oil spill off the country's coast could have a severe environmental impact. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8242 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:25:10 +0100 http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/12/22/shell-oil-spill-off-nigeria-possibly-the-worst-in-a-decade The head of Nigeria's oil spill management agency says an offshore oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell PLC field is likely the worst in a decade. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8226 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:38:25 +0100 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106284&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community here plan to take their chief to court next week over a controversial 50-year land lease to a mining company. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8224 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:36:12 +0100 http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00014972.html In this edition of Al Jazeera's programme, Africa Investigates, reporter Sorious Samura exposes high level corruption around the logging industry. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8131 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:27:11 +0100 http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/12/climate-change-0?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/dealindurban ...the UN’s two-week-long climate-change summit ended in Durban with an agreement. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8058 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:56:54 +0100 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/09/durban-climate-change-talks-cop17-live?newsfeed=true Latest developments from the final day of the UN COP17 climate change talks in Durban http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8056 Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:12:30 +0100 http://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-09-africa-divided-over-climatesmart-agriculture/ Agriculture is a big issue for the Africa Group at COP17, with many African delegates sporting "No Agriculture, No Deal" badges.. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8049 Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:59:12 +0100 http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/SA-faces-climate-risk-from-land-use-20111208?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_source=sabreakingnews A South African study on the risk of climate change has revealed that governance and changing land use contributed in equal or greater measure to the risk from extreme weather events. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8036 Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:05:15 +0100 http://www.ips.org/TV/cop17/uganda-deforestation-robbing-communities-of-their-income/ From a distance, Bugala Island in Lake Victoria is a patchwork of green and brown. The pattern is a result of dense forest retreating in the wake of recently planted palm tree plantations. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8030 Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:47:56 +0100 http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2130752/reports-india-rejects-eu-climate-deal-roadmap Hopes that the Durban Summit would result in a new road map that would see a binding global climate treaty agreed by 2015 received a major blow last night,... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8013 Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:55:51 +0100 http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-12-07-sahel-a-key-case-study-for-climate-change-at-cop17 ..Equally important, however, are the negotiations on adapting to the effects of climate change in embattled parts of the developing world like Africa’s Sahel. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-environment-wildlife#8005 Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:42:26 +0100