Click here to read or make comments on this topic »
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
THE Department of Veterinary Services requires more than US$20 million for the rehabilitation of the Foot and Mouth cordon fences around major game parks in the country.
A Huge Number of Rhinos - 45 white rhinos and two endangered black rhinos - have been poached in the Kruger National Park in the past 15 months, Water and Environment Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in a report that was tabled yesterday.
Like His 'Cousin' Sol, Mike the Male Baboon With Wanderlust Appears to Be Attracted By the Bright Lights of the Big City.
Staff at the Two Oceans Aquarium are fighting to keep two endangered Green Turtles alive after the pair was found in distress on Noordhoek Beach last week.
THE five-day-old baby rhino at Nakitoma in Nakasongola district is playful and adorable, the sanctuary managers have said.
THE Uganda Wildlife Authority is hunting for poachers and traders in ivory following the recovery of 100 pieces of elephant ivory hidden in sacks of beans at Kabusu in Kampala.
Uganda will unveil yet another family of gorillas for the public to track in Bwindi National Park when it launches the year of the gorilla on July 14.
Poaching cases are on the increase in Loliondo game controlled area in contrast to limited number of game rangers in the vicinity.
The Rwandan Ministry of Trade and Industry has drafted the wildlife act in a move to streamline conservation efforts in the country.
The Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) has changed tremendously over the years. From the nostalgic nineties when I was a little boy and used to spend time by the chimpanzee cage where Zakayo swang, swayed, thumped his chest and did acrobatic moves to the amusement of adults and run the children into a frenzy of excitement.
Government is considering expanding the size of the volcanic park by 10 percent in a bid to promote the conservation of the gorillas.
A calf has been born among the six rhinos living at the breeding sanctuary in Nakasongola district. This is the first birth of a rhino in Uganda in the last 20 years and brings the total to nine.
The wandering ways of Mike, arguably the best-travelled baboon on the peninsula, will have ended on Friday if plans by conservationists succeed.
The International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has authorised an increase in the number of elephants Mozambique is allowed to kill from 40 to 60 per year.
The Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) leased some of its resorts with the blessings of Cabinet as part of the company's turnaround strategy.
Government has no intention to provide compensation for damages caused by wild animals, as this is likely to be abused, said Colgar Sikopo, deputy director of Parks and Wildlife Management in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism.
A South African capture team has almost completed the translocation of a herd of elephants from the Phirilongwe forest reserve located in a communal management area in southern Malawi.
CLASHES between wild animals and people in Namibia have resulted in 48 human deaths since 2006, a senior conservationist in the Ministry of Environment Tourism said this week.
An insect pest that wrought havoc in the California fruit industry two decades ago has made its appearance in the Western Cape, a University of Stellenbosch entomologist announced on Tuesday.
Mile 4 has supported about 46 000 birds on average in recent years. Occasionally, Mile 4 Saltworks, one of Namibia's 21 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) supports massive numbers of water birds.
THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has received 1.1m (about sh3.2b) from the European Union (EU) in the last five years, the commission's head of cooperation, Jose Soler, has said.
COMMUNITIES living in areas adjacent to Transfrontier Conservation Areas should continue co-existing with wildlife so as to achieve the long-term economic growth for both the country and the communities, a Cabinet minister has said.
The conflict between the Bakgatla and the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism over the prohibition of hunting highlights the uneasy relationship between tradition and custom on the one hand, and the national interest as it is perceived by the government on the other.
Plans to erect a 397-kilometre electric fence around the Mount Kenya, one of the five water towers, are underway.
About 700 children of Esilalei location in Piyaya village in Ngorongoro district have failed to join school this year as the primary school construction work at Emuguru area had been stopped by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority for conservation reasons.
Active Discussions: Wildlife