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How to write about Africa
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... They also have family values: see how lions teach their children? Elephants are caring, and are good feminists or dignified patriarchs. So are gorillas. Never, ever say anything negative about an elephant ...
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Hundred lucky Ivory Coast fans win trip to World Cup
(News/2010 Fifa World Cup)
Tags: [National Elephants Supporters Committee, Kassoum Diakite, Pierre N'Gore, Ivory Coast] ...
Monday, 31 May 2010
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Scientists use DNA to trace illegal elephant poaching
(News/Environment)
Tags: [DNA, trace, illegal ivory, elephants, poachers, Africa] ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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FAO works to reduce human-wildlife conflict in rural Africa
(News/Environment)
Rural Africans often face problems trying to co-exist with wildlife. Baboons steal food. Elephants stampede through their crops. And the animals are also under stress, as their habitat is lost to human ...
Friday, 23 July 2010
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Once a rebel haunt, Congo's Garamba opens to tourism
(News/Travel and Tourism)
... Danger in 1996, largely because it houses 30 of the world's last remaining white rhinos. Its vast grasslands, forests and swampy depressions also housing hippos, elephants and giraffes, lost their tourist ...
Wednesday, 09 June 2010
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Hundred lucky Ivory Coast fans win trip to World Cup
(News/2010 Fifa World Cup)
... The country's national supporters club, the National Elephants Supporters Committee, drew the 100 names at random from their membership, and began telephoning the winners immediately to organize their ...
Monday, 31 May 2010
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Rare black rhinos relocated to Africa's Serengeti
(News/Environment)
... lions, rhinos, elephants, leopard and buffalo - that make up one of the continent's main tourist attractions. The 32 being reintroduced to Tanzania are part of a 50-strong herd bred from the original ...
Monday, 24 May 2010
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African police seize $1 mln in rhino horns, ivory
(News/Environment)
... sub-Saharan Africa has 690,000 elephants at most - where once there were millions. Ivory demand in Asia and political instability in Africa encourages poaching by international criminal rings, wildlife ...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
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Cameroon: Creation of national park will protect biodiversity and boost development
(News/Environment)
... in the region but also as the epicenter of biological diversity. Elephants and chimpanzees roam the local forests amidst multiple species of rare plants, creating a scene unparalleled both in west Africa ...
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
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Botswana tries spicy solution to keep elephants at bay
(News/Innovation)
Tourists love to watch herds of elephants in Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, but nearby farmers watch in dismay when the animals trample their crops. Farmers now have a new, safe weapon to keep elephants ...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
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Nigeria, Cameroon qualify for World Cup
(News/2010 Fifa World Cup)
... its qualifying campaign on a high note with a 3-0 victory over Guinea. Gervinho netted in the 16th and 31st minutes before Siaka Tiene sealed the win with a free kick in the 68th. The Elephants topped ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
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Kenya demands total ban on ivory trade
(News/Environment)
It has been 20 years since the international community banned the sale of ivory to protect endangered animals. But Kenyan wildlife officials complain elephants are being slaughtered because of occasional ...
Monday, 20 July 2009
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Kenya seizes $1 million in rhino, elephant ivory
(News/Environment)
... the trade in such goods. Kipng'etich said the animals must have been poached from southern African countries like Tanzania, Zimbabwe or South Africa as Mozambique had no rhinos and hardly any elephants. ...
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
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Scientists use DNA to trace illegal elephant poaching
(News/Environment)
Scientists are using DNA to trace illegal ivory from slaughtered elephants to its countries of origin in an effort to nab poachers. Researchers are trying to combat the multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Famous adventurer promotes transfrontier conservation
(News/Education)
... attractions such as the Chilojo Cliffs, a well-known raptor nesting area, and its population of almost 6 000 elephants. The local communities of Chilo and Davata will benefit from the donation of soccer ...
Thursday, 18 June 2009
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Heroic rescue for endangered elephants in Malawi
(News/Environment)
More than 60 endangered elephants, categorised as under threat, will be evacuated to safety in a massive rescue effort, which begins in the southern African country of Malawi early this week. More ...
Monday, 08 June 2009
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Rainforest activist is awarded "green Nobel"
(News/Environment)
... Ivindo National Park was established in 2002, and holds some of the planets rarest species, including populations of forest elephants, western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, and forest buffalo. The park ...
Monday, 20 April 2009
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Using fish to fight Malaria
(News/Health)
... feed on the mosquito larvae. The fish embryos can survive even in the shallow depressions made by an elephants feet. "Once established...the fish will continue to come back year after year to feed on ...
Friday, 17 April 2009
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Africa's tourism highlights
(News/Travel and Tourism)
... well over 100 000 elephants remains a great attraction, as does the landmark Moremi Game Reserve and water labyrinth Okavango Delta. Namibia is famed for its magificent stark coastline where the desert ...
Thursday, 26 February 2009
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Country Profile: Gabon
(Country Profiles/Gabon)
... President El Hadj Omar Bongo and comprise some 10,000 square miles protecting vital habitat for gorillas, chimpanzees, forest elephants and other wildlife. As a percentage of a country's total area, only ...
Monday, 23 February 2009
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