www.wildmadagascar.org via MongabayJanuary 11, 2010 Madagascar has legalized the export of rosewood logs, possibly ushering in renewed logging of the country’s embattled rainforest parks. The transitional authority led by president Andry Rajoelina, who seized power during a military coup last March, today released a decree that allows the export of rosewood logs harvested from the […]
Laid off workers leave ‘in tears’; remittances dry up, cutting funds to region AMMAN, Jordan – Mahmoud Tamimi’s friends call it the “Dubai syndrome” — the insatiable longing for a city he loves but was forced to leave. Back in Dubai, the 31-year-old had a good job, nice apartment and a $3,700 monthly salary, dozens […]
First it was colonists who put the Ogiek on reserves in Mau Forest. After freedom corrupt officials drove them out as they set up farms. Now a reforestation effort has forced them even farther away. By Robyn Dixon, January 4, 2010 Mau Forest, Kenya – For centuries, the little-known Ogiek people foraged wild honey and […]
By Brigitte Weidlich (AFP) WINDHOEK — An old man gently touches the trunk of the huge quiver tree with a worried look on his wrinkled face, as he points at several dead branches lying on Namibia’s rugged terrain. “When I was a boy, my grandfather made my first quiver from a branch of this old […]
By MUCHEMI WACHIRA, Posted Monday, January 4 2010 at 20:00 Loggers have been destroying parts of the Aberdare Forest, one of the country’s five main sources of water. With the Mau Forest being the main focus of attention, conservationists appear to have forgotten the other key sources of water. A spot check by the Nation […]
By Abdullahi Jamaa, 6 January 2010 Nairobi — A group of young are gathered behind a makeshift structure where they have been living on edge. They have been sitting idle for the some hours. Their discussion returns to poverty, and how to overcome it. Sweat beads on their worried foreheads. Indeed, if there is […]
By Antony Sguazzin in Johannesburg (asguazzin@bloomberg.net)Last Updated: January 6, 2010 08:13 EST Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Dairy farms along South Africa’s south west coast, which are among the nation’s most productive, are threatened by the region’s worst drought in 130 years, an industry body said. Farmers in the area between Bredasdorp and Plettenberg bay, towns […]
By Jeremy Hancewww.mongabay.comJanuary 05, 2010 Members with the conservation group Lion Guardians stumbled on a rare site in the Amboseli area of Kenya recently: six hyenas and a number of jackals were attacking and eating a 12-foot-long python. On their blog at WildlifeDirect, Lion Guardians describe the attack: “[the hyenas and jackals] tore into its […]
By Nick Wadhams in Nairobi, for National Geographic News, September 21, 2009 This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more clean water news, photos, and information, visit National Geographic’s Freshwater Web site. More than sixty African elephants and hundreds of other animals have died so far in […]
By Susan Anyangu-Amu, 31 December 2009 The European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) has raised a red flag over the worsening food security situation in the Horn of Africa. Mr Karel De Gucht, the European Commissioner in charge of development and humanitarian aid, attributes the disastrous situation to the terrible potential of climate change. […]
