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If the Covid-19 pandemic had ended the 2020 elephant looking season, the 2021 version opened on Tuesday, April 6, in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. The trophy is nearly 300 elephants that hunters from Europe and the USA will strive to kill. That is the primary full looking season in Botswana, a rustic house to 130,000 pachyderms - the most important contingent on the earth - since a ban was lifted…

In South Africa, when rhinos are poached, their children are abandoned too young to survive on their own. That is why there is a center in the province of Limpopo, in the north of the country, to collect them, the time when they become independent and can be released into the reserve. From our special correspondent in…

Lots of fish as well as dead dolphins have been reported in recent days off the Ghanaian coast. An investigation is underway to determine the causes of this accident, unparalleled in this English-speaking West African country. A team of experts from the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture went to the website. The locations of fish and dolphins, in the hundreds, stretched for miles of coastline. Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo has never seen so many. Co-founder of the local NGO Plastic Punch, which aims to combat plastic…

A real Desert Locust epidemic is destroying East Africa for the second year in a row. The flying insect reproduces exponentially and tens of millions of locusts devour fields that are grown for food. You could hear the rain falling. It is, in fact, a cloud of locusts that fell on a cultural field and devoured everything in its path. A desert-jumped swarm amounts to several million and last year, during the crisis in East Africa, a swarm as large as Luxembourg was seen. The first signs of this air and cyclical terror in…

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will publish its new red list of endangered animals on Thursday, March 25. It has 37,480 endangered species against 35,765 in December 2020. And African forest elephants now fall into the category of "critically endangered" and "endangered" for savannah elephants. Forest elephants today occupy only a quarter of their original territory.…

In the southern part of Côte d'Ivoire, near Tiassalé, along the Bandama River, fishermen of Malian descent complain of the growing number of accidents, sometimes fatal, that follow attacks by hippos, a protected and vulnerable species. According to them, animals are becoming more and more aggressive and some are now considering giving up their traditional occupations because of this daily danger. For…

At a time of the resurgence of the Ebola epidemic, focus on the Institute of Applied Biological Research in Guinea (Irbag) in the Kindia region, 135 km from Conakry. It is located on the grounds of the former Institut Pasteur, which was founded in 1922 by Dr. Calmette, who mainly owed the tuberculosis vaccine. It is a jewel of colonial architecture, its archives are full of treasures for historians.…

In Gabon, incidents between villagers and elephants are increasing in some regions. The President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council has embarked on a national tour to try to find solutions to the problems of cohabitation. In rural areas, people complain about damage caused by these animals in their plantations and accuse the authorities of not listening to them.…

In Central Africa, all great apes are in dramatic decline. But on the spot, communities are mobilizing. The first forum for the civil protection of great apes from the forests of the Congo Basin, organized in Yaoundé, Cameroon, by the Alliance for the Conservation of Great Apes in Central Africa and the IUCN, aims to promote these field experiences. This meeting ends on Thursday.…

An investigation was opened after the discovery of several dozen vultures. An endangered species. They were discovered in the northeastern part of the country last week and were reportedly poisoned. This is not the first time that a mass grave has been discovered. The 55 carcasses of white backs were found on October 22 in…