African Rangers Awards: Nigerian, 49 others honoured in Accra
Suleiman Saidu, a Nigeria senior game guard ranger from Yankari National Park was honoured at the 2019 African Rangers Award in Accra on Friday.
Saidu...
REDD+ programme gets Ogun, Edo, Plateau as new additions
A recent scoping mission to seven states has led to the addition of Ogun, Edo and Plateau states to the the REDD+ Programme in...
Drought: Zimbabwe plans forced migration to save wildlife
Zimbabwe is planning an enforced mass migration of wildlife away from a park in the country’s south, where thousands of animals are at risk...
Environmentalist calls for ‘trash blindness’ sensitisation
An environmentalist, Mr Emmanuel Emechete on Tuesday called for advocacy and sensitisation of Nigerians on the dangers of indiscriminate littering.
Emechete, also a climate change...
Palestinian engineer pioneers hydroponics farm in northern Gaza Strip
To overcome the agricultural problems faced by farmers in the besieged Gaza Strip, newly-graduated Palestinian agricultural engineer Irada Al-Za’anin has established the first-ever “water...
How baby elephant strayed, died in Okomu
Director of Technical Programmes at the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), Onoja Joseph has explained what may have been the circumstances surrounding the death of...
Six Yankari elephants get satellite collars to boost protection
Conservation experts in Yankari Game Reserve, have fitted six elephants with GPS/Satellite Collars to help provide real-time tracking of elephant herds.
The move is aimed...
WCS celebrates four years of zero elephant poaching in Yankari
Yankari Game Reserve, home to Nigeria’s largest remaining elephant population, has experienced zero poaching in the last four years, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)...
Appetite for fin soup may soon drive sharks into extinction – Conservationists
Conservationists have called for the regulation of shark harvesting globally to avoid driving the species in to extinction. They point out also that contribution...
Abu Dhabi prepares for post oil economy with ecotourism development
Abu Dhabi has initiated an ecotourism drive to encourage private-sector investment in undeveloped parts of the emirate – particularly its islands and the Mirfa...