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Degradation of Nigeria’s National Parks: A monumental disaster

The Nigeria National Park Service has failed woefully as the custodian of our national heritage located in the seven National Parks in the country....

admin - March 7, 2017

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Cameroon to restore 12m hectares of forest in Congo Basin

Cameroon has committed to restoring over 12 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2030 as part of the Bonn Challenge initiative. The...

admin - February 17, 2017

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Climate change negatively impacting wildlife – Study

A team of scientists reporting in the journal Nature Climate Change say that negative impacts of climate change on threatened and endangered wildlife have been massively...

admin - February 14, 2017

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Ethiopia: Why conservation of wetlands makes sense

As the world celebrated the 2017 World Wetlands Day on Thursday, February 2 2017, the focus this time around was on the role played...

admin - February 5, 2017

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WWD17: Strengthening collaboration to reduce disaster risk

On Thursday, 02 February 2017, the world celebrated its wetlands – complex ecosystems that provide a wide variety of services and benefits for people and nature. Wetlands such...

admin - February 2, 2017

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Germany grants legal status to IUCN

The German government has officially recognised the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as an intergovernmental organisation, a move observers believe reaffirms the...

admin - January 27, 2017

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How the vulture influences health, economy – Mohammed

The vulture, a large, carnivorous bird that is most well known for its scavenging nature, caught the attention of the Nigerian nature conservation community last...

admin - January 22, 2017

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China to ban elephant ivory trade

In what looks like a game changer for elephant conservation, China has announced plans to end domestic ivory trade by the end of 2017....

admin - January 20, 2017

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