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Gabon: Gabon Receives Assistance for Biodiversity And National Parks ManagementThe World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a project that will help protect and manage biodiversity in a sustainable way and contribute to the diversification of the national economy through strengthened capacities of parks and wildlife authorities in Gabon. (AllAfrica)
Uganda: Uganda Pleads With Rwanda On GorillasUGANDA is proposing to Rwanda to allow her tourists to view a renegade group of gorillas that crossed from the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park into Rwanda about a year ago. (AllAfrica)
Namibia: National Parks Get N$47M BoostThe Ministry of Environment and Tourism, the National Planning Commission and the United Nations Development Programme will today sign a grant agreement involving approximately N$47 million aimed at improving the management of national parks in Namibia. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: State Unveils Plan to Retrain Forest GuardsForest guards will be retrained for effective service delivery. (AllAfrica)
Namibia: Faulty Fence Worsens ConflictCONFLICT between human beings and wild animals in areas along the northern border of the Etosha National Park is being accelerated by the poor condition of the fence, a recent study has found. (AllAfrica)
Ethiopia: Company Set to Make 'Nechsar' Model National ParkA five-year rehabilitation and development plan has been prepared with a view to transforming the 'Nechsar', one of the national parks located around the Arba Minch town of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples State, into a model park, administrating company of the park, African Parks said. (AllAfrica)
Zimbabwe: Showdown Looms in ChimanimaniA SHOWDOWN is looming between the Chimanimani Rural District Council and the Parks and Wildlife Management Authority over the council's decision to peg alluvial gold mining claims within a wildlife sanctuary. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: 8,000 Elephants Escape Drought in National ParkMore than 8,000 elephants have escaped from the Tsavo National Park because of drought, sparking a major human-wildlife conflict in Taita Taveta District. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Animals Flee the Mara As Rivers Dry UpThe survival of wild animals in the Maasai Mara game reserve is threatened by shrinking of rivers. (AllAfrica)
Namibia: Conservancy Stands On Own FeetNamed after a well-known river in the Erongo Region, Tsiseb Conservancy, the second largest conservancy in the region after Nyae-Nyae, has successfully been running its operations sustainably for the past two years without donor funding. (AllAfrica)
East Africa: Region for Single Entry Fee to National ParksPLANS to charge a single fee for tourists visiting sites in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are underway to boost the sector. (AllAfrica)
South Africa: Pupil's Drawing Decorates BusA rural schoolchild has been immortalised after his drawing about conservation was chosen to decorate a Kruger National Park minibus. (AllAfrica)
Zimbabwe: Elephants Wreak Havoc in SanyatiVILLAGERS at Rocklands Resettl-ement Scheme in Sanyati are spending sleepless nights battling to keep marauding herds of elephants from destroying their crops. (AllAfrica)
Uganda: Museveni Stops Forest EvictionsPRESDENT Yoweri Museveni has stopped evictions from forest reserves and wetlands nationwide. (AllAfrica)
South Africa: More Research Needed On Elephant ReductionLeading elephant scientists say there is no compelling evidence suggesting the need for immediate, large-scale reduction of elephants in the Kruger National Park. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Kenyan Parks Among World's Top 10Kenya's game parks are among the top 10 destinations in the world for 2006, according to a leading British travel firm. (AllAfrica)
Uganda: Bwindi Suspect GuiltyTHE High Court yesterday convicted Jean Paul Bizimana alias Xavier van-Ndame, a Rwandan Interahamwe militiaman, of killing eight foreign tourists and a Ugandan game warden in 1999. (AllAfrica)
Zimbabwe: Govt Takes Over Wild Life FarmsGOVERNMENT says it is going ahead with its controversial Wildlife Based Land Reform Policy despite pleas of a review from disgruntled operators. Operators last week said they were negotiating for a review of the policy, which had not adequately addressed indigenisation of the sector and ownership rights. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Mau Forest Evictions IntensifyHundreds of settlers continued moving out of the controversial Mau forest yesterday on the second day of the eviction. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Mkomazi Reserve to Be ParkSurrounded by the Pare hills and Usambara mountains, until 1988 Mkomazi area represented a classic example of ecological decline and degradation: overgrazed, persistently eroded and subject to indiscriminate and widespread poaching. Things have since changed and the government is plotting a 15th National Park at a 2,400 square km area currently occupied by the Mkomazi Game Reserve, adjacent to Tsavo National Park in Kenya. (AllAfrica)
Zimbabwe: Parks Expects to Rake in Over $15bnTHE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority expects to rake in more than $15 billion this festive season from its camps and lodges, which are fully booked for the period. (AllAfrica)
South Africa: Kruger National Park to Be Harsh On Law TransgressorsKruger National Park (KNP) authorities have warned that visitors caught littering, speeding and playing loud music in the park will face the full might of the law. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Bright Plans for Popular ParkJivanjee Gardens in Nairobi will soon be a major recreational, tourist and cultural hub, the Nairobi City Council has said. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Plans Complete to Settle More Elephants in National ParkTwo hundred and fifty elephants will be moved to Tsavo East National Park next year. (AllAfrica)
Zimbabwe: Victoria Falls Remains Most Popular: ZTAVICTORIA Falls has remained the most popular resort area in the country, 2004/5 Visitor Exit Survey results by the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) have revealed. (AllAfrica)
Zimbabwe: Health Hazard Looms in Vic FallsA HEALTH hazard is looming in high density suburbs of Victoria Falls as residents are dumping garbage in undesignated areas because the council has not collected refuse in the past five weeks. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Walking With the BaboonsA new tourism concept at Olkiramatian conservation area in Magadi division, Kajiado is among others planned to spawn camaraderie between humans and their close relatives-the baboons. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Wildlife Service Brands Tsavo ParksKenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has re-branded Tsavo East and West National Parks in a programme intended to market and increase revenue collection from the parks. (AllAfrica)
Botswana: No Conflict On Survival International Campaign - RamsayIn what may be indicative of the complex and controversial nature of government's handling of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) conflict, government enclave is allegedly in conflict on who should coordinate its campaign machinery against the London-based lobbying group, Survival International (SI). (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Kws Launches Campaign to Save National Marine ParksThe Kenya Wildlife Service has launched a campaign to create conservation awareness among communities living near national marine parks. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Kenyans to Get Four-Day Free Park Entry TreatThe national parks will be open to Kenyans for free from Friday. (AllAfrica)
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