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UGANDA is to face a timber shortage in the next two years. The crisis is likely to persist for two decades, top forestry experts have warned.
Experts in vulcanology, natural resources and disaster prevention are gathering today in the Comoros for the start of a United Nations-sponsored conference examining how the Indian Ocean archipelago can better manage and promote the active volcano that dominates the main island in the chain.
CONCERNED that its people, wildlife and natural heritage are under unparalled and imminent threat from mining activities, 17 chiefdoms in the Zambezi basin from Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique have come together to call for urgent action, that of saving the Great Zambezi.
Erosion remains a menace threatening the Abia State University Uturu (ABSU) and would require over N290 million to find a lasting solution to it. The Vice-chancellor, Prof Mkpa A. Mkpa, who made this known in his address at the 19th convocation ceremony of the university, expressed worry that if urgent action was not taken, the university might lose its major infrastructural facilities.
THE cutting of trees for tobacco-curing, and charcoal-burning have contributed to the depletion of trees in West Nile, the Arua district forest officer, Edison Adiribo, has said.
SCIENTISTS have warned that infestation of habitats by harmful weeds has reached crisis proportions in many parts of Uganda, posing a threat to many livelihoods.
The Senate unanimously passed into law the long awaited Hydro-Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission bill (HYPADEC) yesterday.
President, Institute of Public Analysts of Nigeria (IPAN), Mr Ganiyu Sanni, has described Nigeria as divinely favoured with abundant deposit of crude oil and gas, which account for over 90 per cent of her total export revenue and not less than 30 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product.
"We have lots of orders for apple banana. There is a ready market for kibuzi in London. It is eaten from Monday to Monday. But how to get it there is the issue. Almost 60 percent of the cost goes to freight."
SANParks is spearheading a new multi- disciplinary team of scientists to get to the bottom of the deaths of hundreds of crocodiles in the Kruger National Park's Olifants River this year.
In spite of the benefits of pollution control policies, many developing countries including Nigeria are yet to embark on vigorous programmes that would address pollution problem in the country, U. D Ikoni, has said. U. D Ikoni, a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Benue State University, Makurdi, made this known in Abuja in a paper he presented at the National Dialogue on Environment, Deforestation ...
Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido has said that Jigawa state is one of the front line states in terms of disasters ranging from soil and gully erosion, desertification, flood and drought, among others and needs urgent intervention of federal government.
THE Namibia Red Cross Society on Friday thanked donors and organisations that formed part of the relief efforts in response to the flooding in northern Namibia earlier this year.
THOUSANDS of people have been displaced by floods in Moyo district, Obongi county MP Hassan Kaps Fungaroo has said.
THE Member of Parliament for Ruhaama constituency, Mrs. Janet Museveni, has urged residents to plant trees on the hills to control soil erosion.
Authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have embarked on efforts to reduce charcoal use in urban areas to curb deforestation, officials said.
Botswana's carbon emission per capita is higher than that of Africa and even Latin America.
The people of Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa have lamented the damage to their environment by a spill from an oil pipeline operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company which occurred last Tuesday.
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamako, has pleaded with Senators to fast-track action on the alarming desert encroachment in the northern part of the country by passing into law the bill to establish a desert control commission.
"The rain was so heavy that we closed our eyes and ears with our hands, just waiting for it to be over."
President Kufuor last Friday performed the ceremony to mark the official commencement of construction works on a 16.5 million-dollar ultra-modern fishing harbour and landing site at James Town in Accra.
A symbolic exercise aimed at highlighting the importance of trees as a visible tool in reducing greenhouse gases takes place this Saturday, November 15, 2008 in Monrovia.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali planted on Sunday an olive tree, in the garden of the centre for burns and trauma which he had previously inaugurated in the governorate of Ben Arous.
Fifteen residents of a workers' hamlet of five houses had a miraculous escape when a massive boulder, loosened by the torrential rains, crashed down a mountainside near De Doorns, destroying a De Wet Wynkelder house on Thursday.
Western Cape residents are mopping up after the worst flooding the region had seen in years.
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