Environment

News : Environment

The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, has warned some 33 forest exploitation companies to pay over FCFA 2 billion as outstanding forest royalties or face sanctions. (AllAfrica)

Architect Halima Tayo Alao, the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development is a committed community leader who has served Nigeria in several professional and administrative positions before attaining her present status. (AllAfrica)

THE financial, food-price and energy-cost crises reverberating around the world is clear evidence of just how inextricably connected the inhabitants of the global village are. The same applies to the environment and climate change. (AllAfrica)

The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, has disclosed that FCFA 108 billion has been contributed for the Congo Basin Forest Fund abbreviated in French as CBFF. (AllAfrica)

THE kitchen has long been considered the heart of the home and with so many more hi-tech appliances becoming available; preparing food, cooking meals and cleaning up in the kitchen is easier than ever before. (AllAfrica)

The Kwara State Commissioner for Environment and Tourism, Alhaji Ahmed Makama, has invited all the 16 Local Government Areas in the state to join hands with the state government in her dream to make the state the cleanest in the country. (AllAfrica)

THE Environmental Management Agency has raised concern over the increase in veld fires, saying it would continue seeking a review of the fines being paid by offenders. (AllAfrica)

Thirty teachers representing 30 districts across the country have been trained on how to manage natural resources, especially water resources. (AllAfrica)

Newly appointed officials of the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife have been told to embrace the challenge of the mechanism for the financing of activities of the Forest-Environment Sector programme earmarked for 2008. (AllAfrica)

Sixty councillors on Wednesday called for urgent action to stop the destruction of Mau Forest. (AllAfrica)

Cuddling her three-month-old son, Lonah Muruli struggled to hold back tears running down her face. She could not believe she would never see her husband and her brother-in-law alive again; they had just been shot dead by forest guards as they herded cattle in Kakamega Forest. (AllAfrica)

The Urbanisation and Environment Ministry (Minua) organises as from this Thursday in Luanda, the first national seminar on "Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Changes". (AllAfrica)

European Development Fund will launch this Thursday in Luanda the book "Kissama" written by French author Benoît Perrotin. (AllAfrica)

The town councils of Oshakati and Tsumeb have signed a twinning agreement to cooperate in areas of economics, politics, environment, education and cultural exchange. (AllAfrica)

The National Planning Commission (NPC) and the Embassy of Sweden launched and handed over the participatory review and evaluation (PRE) publication of Swedish-Namibian cooperation on environment and natural resources to the ministries of Environment and Tourism and Agriculture, Water and Forestry, respectively. (AllAfrica)

One of the tragedies of life is passing a road without leaving footprints. Some people have lived that sort of life. They leave no reference. And in politics, the best that could happen to anyone who has the privilege of serving his people is to leave reference marks. For Dr. Ifedi Okenwa, the opportunity to serve Anambra state as Commissioner for Environment, Mineral Resources, Science and Technology, was one great chance to leave footprints. And by the time he bowed out last June, after a stint in the Peter Obi cabinet, he has left some reference points that are now a challenge to his successor. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria has placed restrictions on the importation of all electrical/electronic waste into its territory. (AllAfrica)

Residents of Nangwa in Nakisunga sub-county, Mukono district have vowed to block Seyan Brothers and Company from quarrying unless it constructs a health centre in the area. (AllAfrica)

WATER and environment minister Maria Mutagamba yesterday blamed district forest officers for the country's diminishing forest cover. (AllAfrica)

Two ministers have thrown their weight behind a proposal to have the Mijikenda sacred forests listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco. (AllAfrica)

Thousands of people are trooping into Mau forest with the hope of benefiting from the planned Government resettlement of illegal farmers, Maasai leaders claimed Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

Two MPs Tuesday differed in public over the Government's decision to evict squatters from Mau Forest by the end of October this year. (AllAfrica)

Environmentalists are warning of dire consequences should the haphazard production of biofuels in Tanzania continue. (AllAfrica)

THE 400,000-HECTARE MAU FOREST COMPLEX remains by far the most important water tower in the region. The source of at least 12 rivers, the complex is the bedrock of economic activity in Western Kenya and the Lake Victoria region in general. (AllAfrica)

LOCAL environmentalists have resumed efforts to discredit the $860m (about sh1,401b) Bujagali hydro-power project. Quoting a compliance review report by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the funders of the 250MW project, the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) said it pointed to anomalies in the project. (AllAfrica)

Namibia yesterday cancelled the fishing licences of two vessels that were found to have indulged in illegal, unregulated and uncontrolled (IUU) fishing. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Environment, Mrs Halima Alao, is leading a 38-man delegation of the National Steering Committee on the Green Wall Nigeria Programme (GWNP) to Israel. (AllAfrica)

I had the privillege of attending the Stakeholders Forum on the Mau Forest at the KICC and like every right thinking participant, I was appalled by the destruction of the Mau Forest. (AllAfrica)

THOSE RIOTING OVER THE Government's plan to comprehensively restore the Mau complex should be understood within the context of the typical Kenyan's contempt for environmental conservation. (AllAfrica)

The fate of thousands of people living in Mau Forest will be determined by a task force launched by Prime Minister Raila Odinga . (AllAfrica)

At one of the many busy roadside shops in the capital, Accra, John Nuagbe displays the used, rusty and mostly broken electrical gadgets he recently imported from the USA. (AllAfrica)