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Tanzania has once again blocked the opening of the Bologonja entry point into the Maasai Mara-Serengeti national parks. (AllAfrica)

The Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, yesterday inaugurated the eight-man board of the National Parks Service in Abuja. (AllAfrica)

WILD AFRICA has again surprised, delighted and stunned visitors to South Africa's Kruger National Park. (AllAfrica)

THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bududa district government to restore formerly encroached areas of Mt. Elgon National Park. (AllAfrica)

Uganda Wildlife Authority has granted a license to a private wildlife company to manage game outside the park. (AllAfrica)

The Uganda Wildlife Authority and Bududa District authorities have signed a memorandum of understanding to start a joint management of Mt Elgon National park land. (AllAfrica)

When a young Patrick Ochan Kaboi started working with the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) at Mt. Elgon National Park in 2004, he told friends and family that his new job would help him realise his dream of going back to school. (AllAfrica)

Encroachers on the Mt. Elgon Forest Reserve have resorted to the usage of witchcraft as a means of chasing away the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) warders. (AllAfrica)

Kenya Wildlife Service has adopted a new marketing strategy to boost tourism in four of its less performing national parks. (AllAfrica)

The Kenya Wildlife Service and hoteliers are spending millions of shillings to supply hay and cabbage to starving wild animals in Tsavo West National Park. (AllAfrica)

CANADIAN-owned Heritage Oil has announced plans to drill 10 more oil wells in Murchison Falls National Park in northern Uganda. (AllAfrica)

SEVEN Forest and wildlife reserves, which serve as tourist attraction centers in the region, continue to be under threat of illegal mining, logging and chainsaw operations among others, despite the joint Military and Police Timber Monitoring team formed to curtail the menace. (AllAfrica)

Alhaji Haruna Abubakar, the Conservator-General, National Parks, Federal Ministry of Environment, on Thursday canvassed for the establishment of additional National Parks across the country. (AllAfrica)

Uganda's beautiful and largest national park protects a chunk of untamed African savannah bisected by the mighty River Nile. It is also home to a variety of wild animals and birds, boasting the world's most accessible wild population of the rare shoebill stork, writes Francis Mugerwa. (AllAfrica)

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (BINP) in South-western Uganda witnessed the launch of a $350,000 lodge last week to boost gorilla tracking in the Ruhija sector.According to Charles Tumwesigye, the Conservation Manager of BINP, the opening of a luxury lodge in the south-eastern sector of the park, will boost the number of tourists ready to track the gorilla family that was habituated a year ago. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has raised concern over increased human activities in the Serengeti National Park (Senapa), one of the heritage sites listed under it. (AllAfrica)

The City of Masvingo is seeking strategic partners through its twinning arrangement with foreign cities and towns to resuscitate the Shakashe Game Reserve on the outskirts of the city so that it can lure tourists ahead of the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup in South Africa. (AllAfrica)

TOURISM stakeholders are up in arms against the possible closure of Buligi Circuit in Murchison Falls National Park to pave way for oil exploration and drilling activities. (AllAfrica)

Plans are underway to relocate residents of Lentswe-Le-Moriti settlement in Bobirwa from the freehold farms in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve. (AllAfrica)

The gorgeous creatures with black faces and flowing white manes leap playfully from the branches of one tall tree to another along the Ukunda-Diani road in the South Coast. (AllAfrica)

Until a decade ago, it used to be home to the Batwa, the pygmies living in south-western Uganda and the DR Congo. Even the small-scale gold miners and timber loggers had to hang up their tools. This was done to create a homeland for Mountain gorillas to save them from extinction. (AllAfrica)

Classic Africa Safaris has become the first company in Uganda to go 'carbon neutral'. The safari company, which operates in Uganda and Rwanda, recently bought carbon credits from farmers growing trees in Bushenyi. (AllAfrica)

SAFARI operators have launched an appeal at the Supreme Court against a High Court decision compelling them to remit a two percent levy on hunting trophies to the Zimbabwe Tourism Association in designated tourist facilities. (AllAfrica)

Experts from Environmental Ministry said that they have spotted Wednesday three more giant black sable antelopes, bringing to six the number of the world's rare species, feared of extinction. (AllAfrica)

Lake Nakuru National Park is easily one of the world's largest and best known bird sanctuaries. (AllAfrica)

Reduction of water in River Mara, whose origin is in the Mau Forest, and which traverses the expansive Maasai Mara game reserve right into Serengeti in Tanzania, is causing the shrinkage of the world famous annual wildebeest migration, which may stop altogether. (AllAfrica)

The High Court has dismissed with costs an application by safari operators seeking an order restraining the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority from demanding a payment of two percent levy on hunting trophies in designated tourist facilities. (AllAfrica)

Angola's Prime Minister, António Paulo Kassoma, was Friday in Luanda informed on the implementation of Okavango-Zambeze Project focussed on the conservation of fauna and flora in a region that covers Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. (AllAfrica)

Kamwenge and Kyenjojo district local governments are to lease over 200 acres of Katonga Game Reserve to a private local investor for development of a tourist resort, Daily Monitor has learnt. (AllAfrica)

Members of Parliament have called on the government to quickly come up with a policy that will see compensation of people whose lives and property have been destroyed by straying wild animals from national parks. (AllAfrica)

Over the weekend, precisely Saturday July 18, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, embarked on what could easily be described as a ,return to his root,. It was indeed a kind of reunion for residents of Kernel Street in Surulere, Lagos, where the governor lived till he metamorphosed into the Lagos State helmsman. That day, he was in the area to witness the handover of Kernel Street Recreation Park. (AllAfrica)

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