Call for illicit market to be taken out of hands of criminals as numbers continue to fall drastically due to poaching ROBIN McKIE International trade in rhino horns should be legalized, a leading wildlife expert has urged. Writing in the research journal Science, Martin Wikelski argues only carefully monitored, legitimate transactions in horns can save […]
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NIMI PRINCEWILL In a sealed plastic jar, the remains of a fetus with severe birth defects are preserved in formalin for scientific research. The transparent jar, around 70cm tall, sits along the back wall of a pathology lab at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. More than a dozen other […]
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Lahai Makieu struck the bamboo with a machete until it cracked and fell. Balancing on his crutch, he reached to pick it up. But colleagues pulled the bamboo’s other end, and he tumbled into the dense grass. “They forgot I had one leg,” the 45-year-old said, laughing. The trainer at a center for amputee farmers […]
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PATRICK MAUNDU Baobab trees grow in arid and semi-arid parts of Africa, and have deep cultural and ecological significance. Some of these trees are thousands of years old. Global demand for baobab products has surged in recent years, driven by the fruit’s nutritional and health benefits. However, this growing demand has become a double-edged sword, […]
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In one of the largest repatriation operations of its kind, almost 1,000 trafficked lemurs and tortoises were successfully returned from Thailand to Madagascar. ANA NORMAN BERMUDEZ In Chonburi, eastern Thailand, as night falls, a team of wildlife officers and veterinarians’ springs into action. In a carefully rehearsed routine, they enter the lemur enclosure, nets in […]
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CECIL MENSAH Environmental Non-Governmental Organization A Rocha Ghana has dismissed claims that repealing the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulations, 2022 (L.I. 2462) could lead to unregulated mining in forest reserves. The organization described these concerns, raised by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Director of Mining, Mr. Michael Sandow Ali, as unfounded and misleading. […]
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DANAI NESTA KUPEMBA Ivory Coast’s beloved staple, attiéké – made from fermented cassava flour – has officially been added to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. Attiéké, pronounced atchekay, is a kind of couscous made from ground cassava roots. It is so well-loved that many people have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nicknamed “Ivorian […]
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Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party was declared winner Tuesday, December 3 of last late month’s disputed elections, ushering in the southern African country’s first woman president after a disputed vote that the main opposition has already said it does not recognize. Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took just over 57 percent of ballots followed by the candidate for […]
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LLOYD G. ADU AMOAH John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s incoming president, has won a chance to rewrite his legacy. He was voted out of office in 2016 by what was then the highest margin in the post-independence history of the west African nation amid corruption scandals and an energy crisis that had crippled the country. But […]
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MOUSTAPHA DIALLO After years of serving as Mali’s minister of the environment, Aida M’bo now spends her time planting trees in a fight that many in the arid West African country acknowledge they are losing. “Deforestation is an important issue in Mali,” she said, standing in front of the Zamblara forest. For decades it has […]
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