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WWD: Flagship yearly event dedicated to wildlife

World Wildlife Day has now become the most important global annual event dedicated to wildlife. The 2019 World Wildlife Day is being celebrated under the theme “Life...

admin - March 2, 2019

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Cross River communities embrace alternative means of livelihood to preserve forest

The Coordinator, Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Dr Odigha Odigha, says that the group has started introducing viable options of livelihood to Cross River...

admin - February 25, 2019

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Botswana considers allowing big game hunting, culling elephants

Botswana, home to almost a third of Africa’s elephants, is considering lifting a ban on big game hunting, to combat what the government says is growing...

admin - February 22, 2019

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World’s largest bee rediscovered after 38 yrs

Last seen in 1981 and thought to be extinct, the world’s largest bee, Wallace’s Giant Bee, has been confirmed alive in the wilderness of Indonesia by...

admin - February 22, 2019

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Kill a python and go to jail, warns zookeeper

Manager of the Imo State Zoological Garden, Dr Francis Abioye, has cautioned Nigerians against killing protected animals including reptiles like python, saying doing so would attract...

admin - February 21, 2019

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Germany launches funding programme to restore floodplains

The German Federal Ministry for the Environment has disclosed that it is launching a new funding programme for the natural development of floodplains along...

admin - February 21, 2019

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Government investigates alleged trafficking of pangolin scales, ivory tusks

The Nigerian government has initiated investigations into the seizure by the Vietnamese Customs Service‎ of over 2,500 kilogrammes of pangolin scales and 600 kilogrammes of ivory tusks. Also...

admin - February 20, 2019

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Group flays impending EU, Vietnam timber trade deal

A looming trade agreement on tropical timber involving the European Union and Vietnam is being resisted by a civil society group, which insists that the Southeast...

admin - February 18, 2019

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