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zimbabwe
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2001
The government of Zimbabwe has given permission to cattle grazers to reside inside the Gonarezhou National Park. Environmentalists fear that this will result in large-scale poaching in the park, which is home to many endangered species of animals. The grazers have already started moving into the park. The permission comes after Zimbabwe signed an agreement with South Africa and Mozambique to set up a transborder game park that would include Gonarezhou.
South Africa
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2001
Divers recently filmed a coelacanth fish in St Lucia marine protected area of South Africa. Coelacanths were thought to be extinct for a long time but six of them were spotted in St Lucia last year (see Down To Earth, Vol 9, No 16, January 15, p12). Pieter Venter, one of the divers, said that the coelacanth was spotted and filmed after his team spent four days searching for it. The images can be viewed at www.world-stream.com.
South Africa
Issue Date: May 31, 2001
The residents of Aloes area of Port Elizabeth city, South Africa, will no longer live in the vicinity of a hazardous medical waste incinerator and one of country's largest waste sites. For years the incinerator and the waste site were polluting the area, thanks to the apartheid government. "The pollution resulted in many cases of cancer, tuberculosis and asthma, leading to the death of a number of people," said Daniel Pienaar, a resident of the area. But now, the residents, helped by the Human Rights Commission, will be relocated four kilometres away from their present dwelling.
SOUTH AFRICA
Issue Date: May 15, 2001
Residents of Zamdela town in the Sasolburg province of South Africa are fighting against air pollution. Under the apartheid rule, many petrochemical plants and oil refineries located in Zamdela were not disclosing information regarding their pollutant emissions. But now the situation is changing. With the help of environmental organisations, the residents have formed a 'bucket brigade' that collects air quality samples with the help of easy-to-use and inexpensive bucket testing devices. The bucket serves as a rugged enclosure for standard air sampling bags.
Withdrawal symptoms
Issue Date: May 15, 2001
in the face of mounting pressure, pharmaceutical manufacturers have abandoned their challenge against the South African Government over the pricing of aids medication. After more than 24 hours of final negotiations, the pharmaceutical companies and the South African Government reached agreement.
Water from waste
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2001
SOUTH AFRICA
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2001
In AID(S) of the dying
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2000
SOUTH AFRICA
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2000
When Mozambique fought a war of independence in 1975, its elephant population was over 60,000. When the war ended in 1992, there were only 15,000 left. The story is the same in many African nations -- Angola, Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. War has taken its toll on Africa's magnificent wildlife.
The task of conserving wildlife is in any case difficult, the war has only made matters worse, says Sarah Scarth, country director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "All this has made it difficult to carry on conservation projects," she says.
SOUTH AFRICA
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2000
Conservationists welcomed a 20-year jail term handed to an elephant poacher, saying stiff sentences were needed to protect the continent's endangered wildlife. "We can only applaud the fact the court has handed down a harsh sentence... we welcome any deterrent to would-be poachers," Sarah Scarth, director of the South African branch of the International Fund for Animal Welfare ( ifaw ), told the Reuters news agency.
