Environment

The meeting, co-organized by the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), aims to find common and sustainable solutions for surviving the Congo Basin forests. There are many promises of funding for these forests, but these are not necessarily on the way to the…

In Gambia, the government bans all timber exports. A powerful measure to once again try to prevent rare species of wood - and in particular rosewood - from being transported illegally from Casamance, to neighboring Senegal. This species, which is in great…

In Tunisia, a handful of producers are struggling to preserve peasant seeds, local seeds that have sometimes disappeared or been forgotten, known to be more resistant to climate risks and adapted to the soil. The agricultural sector in Tunisia consists of 70%…

Making Madagascar's distinctive biodiversity a driving power for improvement and at the identical time preserving it's the situation that for 2 days animated the contributors within the discussion board on pure capital, organized by the community Nat Cap…

The UN is at the sea's during a major UN conference on the subject this week, 27 June 2022 in Lisbon. All lights are red: rising temperatures, acidification, rising water and overfishing. In view of the latter, in addition to the international agreements that…

In Malawi, about 250 elephants are being relocated to repopulate a nationwide park in the midst of the nation. This is Kasungu Park the place the species had nearly disappeared. There had been solely about fifty species left 5 years in the past resulting from poaching. Since then, poaching has decreased, the inhabitants has elevated, however not sufficient to be viable. These patchiderms will due to this fact be transmitted from Liwonde Park greater than 350 km away, the place they're overcrowded. The relocation program…

In Ghana, protests are being organized to save the Achimota forest. Fifteen ecological and civil society associations have since Tuesday 28 June and again this Wednesday demonstrated against a government decision to return plots located in protected areas in…

Africa Energy Forum opens for a week in Brussels. Upstream, on June 20, the International Energy Agency published its prospects for the continent. The IEA expects renewable energy to generalize access to electricity, the supply decreased last year. The pandemic and the crisis have put an end to ten years of progress in access to electricity. About 25 million more people than in 2019 live without electricity in Africa. At present, it is missing for 43% of the total population on the continent. And given the rise in energy…

Negotiations could not be more difficult between the 195 states gathered for six days in Nairobi under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Due to Covid, COP15 2020 planned for China had been canceled. Since then, the countries have met in March in…

A supertanker moored within the Red Sea off Yemen since 1976 may break up and launch some or all of its 1.1 million barrels of oil within the Horn of Africa, warns the UN. Also on this version: Britain's Prince Charles expresses remorse over the legacy of…