Some 1,700 people in West Africa have contracted cholera
since mid-June, a significant decline compared to the same seven-week
period in 2012 when 11,834 were affected.
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Kenya: Hands Off Our Elephants, Says First Lady
First lady Margaret Kenyatta on Friday evening launched an
anti-poaching campaign to respond to rampant poaching, which continues to reap
Kenya of its most affluent and significant tourist attractions.
Dolphin breaks free, reunites with its family
A dolphin named Sampal broke free from a Korean Rehab
facility to unite with its family.
NOA urges Nigerians to stop acts leading to flooding
The Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA)
in Abia, Mrs Ngozi Uduma, has called on Nigerians to desist
from acts capable of endangering the environment.
Illegal marijuana cultivation threatens Nigeria's forests and chimps
Pix Courtesy Stuttershock
The world's highest deforestation rate, the execution of
eight environmental activists including a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and
ongoing turmoil surrounding oil operations in the Niger River Delta has created
a notoriously disreputable environmental record for the West African country.
Now, a new threat is rising in the already-compromised forests of Nigeria:
illegal marijuana cultivation.
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