Tribal communities suffer when evicted in the name of conservation

The tribal communities are paying a brutal price for governments' agenda to boost safari, create protected areas and attract tourism

Greasy step forward

Locust invasion

Lake Chad's forgotten crisis

Ecological degradation in the Chad Basin has triggered Africa's latest humanitarian crisis. It's time, the basin countries looked beyond the …

At farm's hand

CAMEROON

Pact of devastation

France has agreed to cancel part of the debt it is owed by Cameroon in return for the right to destroy the country's rainforests

Dangerously beautiful

At farm's hand

They won't chicken out

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Frozen account

Pushed to the brink of extinction

The Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee fights a losing battle against innumerable threats

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Questionable move

The imperatives of governing world’s forests

For the past eight years, leaders of public forest agencies from the world’s most forested countries have been taking part in a series of …

Antimicrobial resistance to cost global economy up to US $210 trillion

Countries like India which have high rates of malaria, HIV and tuberculosis likely to suffer more if they don't take immediate action to tackle …

Blame's on chimps

For forest elephants in Central Africa, no place is safe from poaching

A recent study shows a 78-81 per cent decline in elephant population from the most protected area in Central Africa over a period of ten years

Bytes

Lion hunting only makes sense if it's part of a package of interventions

New research from Zambia's Luangwa Valley identifies reforms needed for lion trophy hunting

Only 100 Cross River gorillas left in Nigeria

Revised regional action plan launched for the conservation of the species, listed by IUCN as critically endangered

WHO raises alarm over new cases of cross-border transmission of poliovirus from Pakistan

Additional travel restrictions may be placed on Pakistan if present recommendations are not implemented fully, says expert panel of global health …

How effective is the global polio eradication drive?

An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health …