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Congo’s ‘Garden of Eden’ withstands growing human pressure
27 Dec 2024 07:56 GMT
The Republic of Congo’s Lac Télé Community Reserve is a remarkable reservoir of biodiversity in the Likouala swamp forests.
The reserve is also home to 20,000 people living in 27 fishing villages on the region’s many rivers.
Reserve managers say there are …
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Spain again urges EU to tighten controls on South African citrus
23 Dec 2024 12:43 GMT
The Europhyt platform of the European Commission (EC) has reported that EU entry points in November there were three more cases of citrus black spot (Phyllosticta citricarpa) in citrus shipments from South Africa.
Spain's Valencian Association of …
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No signs of slowdown in wildlife trafficking in 2024 as demand persists
26 Dec 2024 01:22 GMT
… Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
Monkeys, capable of … from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Thailand, … wildlife like elephants (Loxodonta africana) and hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius … further hope. In the Central African Republic’s Dzanga-Sangha …
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Endangered baby gorilla saved from small wooden crate after airport stop
24 Dec 2024 17:43 GMT
An endangered baby gorilla has been discovered inside a small wooden crate at Istanbul Airport in Turkey.
The gorilla was found wearing a T-shirt when it was spotted within a cargo shipment from Nigeria that was on its way to Bangkok, Thailand.
Customs …
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Watch: Baby Gorilla In T-Shirt Stuffed Inside A Crate, Rescued At Airport
24 Dec 2024 15:56 GMT
A smuggled baby gorilla, wearing a T-shirt and crammed inside a small wooden crate at the Istanbul Airport in Turkey has been rescued. The endangered animal was shipped from Nigeria and was bound for Bangkok, Thailand via Istanbul. Officers from Turkey…
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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025
24 Dec 2024 09:11 GMT
Contributing authors: Abigail Buta, and Jessica Levy, and Elena Seeley
The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgent—or more inspiring.
Around the world, organizations are driving change through initiatives designed and …
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Baby gorilla wearing t-shirt found stuffed in crate at Istanbul airport, rescued
24 Dec 2024 08:20 GMT
Authorities in Turkey have rescued a smuggled baby gorilla that was found stuffed inside a small crate. The endangered animal was being transported from Nigeria to Thailand via Turkey when the shipment was intercepted and the gorilla was rescued. A baby …
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Year in review: A look at national news events in January 2024
26 Dec 2024 10:10 GMT
… ,000 in 2023.
22 - Cameroon starts the world's … before his diagnosis being fisheries, forestry and agriculture.
22 - The …
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The World’s Four Legacy Empires Are Going Down
25 Dec 2024 14:48 GMT
Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words still capture the epochal change that may await us just over history’s horizon. “For now we see in a glass, …
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International CSOs Ask Tinubu To Halt Oil Divestments In Niger Delta, Warn That Assets Sales Would Be Detrimental To Region
25 Dec 2024 09:07 GMT
A coalition of local and International Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called on President Bola Tinubu for an immediate and comprehensive halt to all divestment requests from International Oil Corporations in the Niger Delta.
This included requests …