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11/19/01 -- Stop Excision of Forests, Narok Leaders Tell Govt

11/16/01 -- Chad-Cameroon pipeline sets precedent - World Bank

11/15/01 -- Kenya: Japanese Team to Consider Effect of Forest Loss on Troubled Power Project

11/14/01 -- Greenpeace Exposes Scandal of African Rainforest Destruction and Demands Governments to Act Now

11/10/01 -- KENYA: Outrage on plan to excise forest

11/09/01 -- Cultural plus financial support crucial to saving wilderness

11/08/01 -- MOROCCO: Weather Looms Large at Climate Talks

11/07/01 -- Maathai Links KPLC Loss to Forest Destruction

11/06/01 -- ETHIOPIA: Forest Fire Destroys Thousands of Hectares

11/05/01 -- KENYA: Greed is Behind Decimation of Forests

11/02/01 -- World Wilderness Congress Opens with Conservation Grants

11/02/01 -- Kenyan government orders 10% of nation’s diminishing forests to be cut down

11/02/01 -- Fire Sparks Conservation Movement in South Africa

11/02/01 -- Aid offered to save critically endangered Cape parrot

11/01/01 -- WWF welcomes new national parks in Tunisia

10/31/01 -- Government Forest Plan Riles Native Kenyans

10/31/01 -- Conservationists see threat to African lions

10/30/01 -- In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land (part 3)

10/29/01 -- Kenyan greens criticise forest plans

10/29/01 -- KENYA: Outrage Over Government Plans to Hive Off Forests

10/29/01 -- In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land (part 2)

10/28/01 -- KENYA: State Moves to Excise Huge Chunks of Forests

10/26/01 -- In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land

10/25/01 -- Protecting Gabon's pristine forests

10/25/01 -- Forest Officers Sacked for Abetting Forest Destruction in Kenya

10/24/01 -- Cyanide Spill Ghana's Worst Environmental Disaster

10/22/01 -- Leave Forest, Says Minister

10/22/01 -- Africa's birds face farming threat

10/21/01 -- GABON: Strange Bedfellows In A Rain Forest

10/18/01 -- South Africa's floral riches at risk

10/17/01 -- Trying to save Africa's rain forests, conservationists turn to an old enemy-- loggers

10/16/01 -- KENYA: Minister Warns On Forest Land

10/11/01 -- NIGERIA: Expert Mourns Disappearance of Forests

10/11/01 -- KENYA: Forests Battle Lost, But War Goes On

10/08/01 -- In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land (part 3)

10/05/01 -- Mandela Uses Park Creation to Plead for Peace

10/05/01 -- Carve-Up of Forests Can Go Ahead, Court Rules

10/05/01 -- "Greatest animal kingdom" takes shape in Africa

10/04/01 -- World's biggest elephant move starts

10/04/01 -- South Africa to launch massive elephant relocation

10/04/01 -- Safeguards for Largest West African Forest Considered

10/04/01 -- President Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire supports tropical forest conservation efforts in West Africa

10/03/01 -- Space age plan to save gorillas

10/03/01 -- Central African countries come together for conservation

10/02/01 -- South Africa to Move 1,000 Elephants Into Mozambique

10/02/01 -- Knowledge is power to manage Namibia's big cats

10/02/01 -- In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land

10/01/01 -- World's biggest elephant relocation begins

10/01/01 -- African Wildlife Databases Benefit Conservation Efforts

09/26/01 -- In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land

09/26/01 -- Hand Over Hand Humans Reach Out to Save the Great Apes

09/24/01 -- ZAMBIA: Forest Squatters Refuse to Be Relocated

09/24/01 -- Symposium On the Degradation of the Liberian Rainforest

09/24/01 -- Kenya's court stops Tiomin from mining

09/22/01 -- Court blocks Canadian firm's US$ 116 m titanium venture

09/22/01 -- KENYA: Forest disappearance blamed on water scarcity

09/19/01 -- Poor management of Nigeria's environment costs $5 billion per year

09/18/01 -- Lesotho and South Africa Conserve Shared Mountains

09/17/01 -- KENYA: Forests Might Be Saved

09/17/01 -- Beating Poverty May Be Way to Save African Wildlife

09/13/01 -- Traditional Spirits Block a $500 Million Dam Plan in Uganda

09/12/01 -- KENYA: Wildlife Service in New Plan On Forests

09/12/01 -- Appeal Launched to Save Central African Forest

09/11/01 -- GIS Professionals Urged to Support Efforts to Save Central African Forest

09/08/01 -- Forest Peoples Seek Compensation

09/07/01 -- Death toll rises to 30 in South African bush fires

09/07/01 -- Commercial Hunting Threatens Survival of African Animals, Scientists Warn

09/06/01 -- UN urged to put sanctions on Liberia's timber exports

09/06/01 -- SOUTH AFRICA: Kruger National Park Fire Claims 23 Lives

09/06/01 -- Botswana sends first of 300 elephants to Angola

09/05/01 -- Forest dwellers of seven African countries seek compensation

09/04/01 -- Zim loggers to ravage rainforest: Robert Mugabe’s army will help fell trees in 34-million hectares of the Congo

09/04/01 -- Elephants fly into Angola

09/04/01 -- Elephants Airlifted to Repopulate War-Torn Park in Angola

09/03/01 -- Tropical Rain Forest Shrinks Sharply in Uganda

09/03/01 -- KENYA: Kyeni Forest Farmers Protest Displacement

08/31/01 -- Flooding in Nigeria highlights pressure on dams

08/30/01 -- In war-torn Sierra Leone, chimps survive with help

08/30/01 -- Cameroon: involvement of local people in anti-poaching drives pays off

08/26/01 -- Mugabe's loggers to ravage rainforest

08/25/01 -- Conservation park in Africa will cross borders

08/24/01 -- The elephant time forgot DNA study reveals third species

08/24/01 -- Activists says mining firm menaces Kenyan coast

08/23/01 -- Elephants Have Different Genes

08/23/01 -- Africa's Forest Elephants Called Separate Species

08/23/01 -- A new elephant species?

08/22/01 -- Confident elephants nudge into Nairobi

08/22/01 -- Angolan nature reserve to get Botswana elephants

08/22/01 -- African orchids disappearing in record numbers

08/19/01 -- KENYA: Maathai Held At Forest

08/18/01 -- Gorillas face extinction without tourism

08/17/01 -- Nigeria demands environmental action from oil companies

08/13/01 -- Mandela welcomes return of elephants to St. Lucia

08/13/01 -- Kenyan Environmentalist Wants Lenders to Insist on Conservation

08/10/01 -- Kenya greens urge donors to help preserve forests

08/10/01 -- Cultural habits of chimps

08/09/01 -- Liberian timber riches seen fuelling regional war

08/07/01 -- Gabon, loggers in deal to stop bushmeat poachers

08/07/01 -- Cameroon's 'protected' forest is a meal ticket for elephant poachers

08/05/01 -- Kenyan Drought

08/03/01 -- South Africa's deep-rooted problem: unwelcome trees

08/03/01 -- Rare orchids ‘stripmined’ in Africa

08/02/01 -- Illegal Trade Threatens African Orchids

08/02/01 -- African Orchids Threatened by Epicurean Demand

07/29/01 -- KENYA: 280 families to vacate forest

07/19/01 -- Male Gorillas Make a Splash to Get the Females, New Study Finds

07/18/01 -- Four Zambezi River Nations Make Joint Conservation Plans

07/16/01 -- Kenya's Pink Flamingos Weighed Down by Heavy Metals

07/16/01 -- European Timber Trader Linked with Liberian Arms Trafficking

07/16/01 -- Congo Okapi park battles miners, poachers and war

07/12/01 -- Wanton Tree Felling in Mt Kenya Forest

07/12/01 -- KENYA: Priests Speak Out On Forest Land Dispute

07/10/01 -- Inside Cameroon #3, June/July 2001

07/10/01 -- Africa's great apes are being butchered as loggers open up rain forests to hunters trading in bush meat

07/09/01 -- Northern Congo Rainforest Spared by German Loggers

07/09/01 -- Man-Made Activities Threaten Forests in Kenya's Kiambogo

07/09/01 -- Pristine Congo rain forest spared from logging

07/08/01 -- Kenyan MP and environmentalist released

07/07/01 -- German Loggers to Leave 'African Eden' Untouched

07/07/01 -- Forest Conservation Project Takes Off

07/06/01 -- Logging company gives 100-square-mile rainforest back to Republic of Congo for national park

07/06/01 -- Logging Co. Returns Rainforest Land

07/03/01 -- Urgent Follow-up Action: Chad

07/03/01 -- Japan helps Senegal tame desert with trees

07/03/01 -- Chimpanzees Said in Danger

07/01/01 -- CAMEROON: Putting the park in the hands of the people

06/29/01 -- Kenyan Environmentalist Receives Death Threats, Is in Hiding

06/28/01 -- Wildlife conservation: A new game plan

06/27/01 -- Uncontrolled logging in Liberia wreaks all-round havoc

06/27/01 -- Kenyan Enviros Charge TV's Survivor with Damaging Reserve

06/26/01 -- Poaching Threatens 'Smart' Guinean Chimpanzees

06/25/01 -- Scriptwriters aid effort to curb bushmeat trade

06/22/01 -- MAURITIUS: Group: island scientists discover 'extinct' tree

06/21/01 -- Scientists Discover 'Extinct' Tree

06/20/01 -- Southern Africa gets ready for giant Trans-frontier Park

06/20/01 -- Nile Crocodiles Threatened by Alien Weed

06/18/01 -- GAMBIA: More Bushfires in 2001, Forestry Dep't Warns Against Forest Degradation

06/18/01 -- African dust storms send germs to America

06/16/01 -- Global warming threatens future of rare baboon

06/13/01 -- New Wave of Flamingo Deaths Worries Scientists

06/13/01 -- KENYA: Farmers Back on Forest Land

06/13/01 -- African Illegal Wildlife Traders Raided

06/12/01 -- Tough laws saving rhino populations

06/11/01 -- Uganda Reopens War Torn Rwenzori National Park

06/11/01 -- Cameroon cracks down on unruly logging companies

06/11/01 -- Japan envoy upbeat on Kenya power plant funding

06/09/01 -- Pollution Blamed for Mystery Kenya Flamingo Deaths

06/08/01 -- Poachers rule Zambia's biggest wildlife park

06/07/01 -- Nigeria to launch government web site for environment protection

06/06/01 -- UGANDA: Forests Get Sh19b Grant

06/06/01 -- Mountain gorillas reportedly eaten

06/06/01 -- Cooked Remains of Gorilla Found in Rwanda

06/05/01 -- Bush Charts Global Warming Course

06/04/01 -- Japan Suspends Funding for Kenya's Sondu Miriu Dam

06/03/01 --Huge Amount of Tanzanian Forests Burnt Annually

06/01/01 -- Botswana's Khwe "Bushmen" forced to leave ancestral lands

06/01/01 -- Tough Swaziland laws deter rhino poachers

05/31/01 -- Troubles Mount for Canadian Titanium Mine in Kenya

05/28/01 -- Alarm over razing of Liberian rainforest

05/26/01 -- KENYA: Big Plans to Restore Forest

05/24/01 -- Kidnapped Swede in Congo Urges Negotiated Release

05/24/01 -- CAMEROON: A disappearing abundance

05/22/01 -- Bushmeat Hunting Threatens African Wildlife

05/21/01 -- Liberia's vanishing rain forests; President, foreign firms ravage nation's lush jungles for profit

05/20/01 -- Thailand awaits fate of kidnapped timber workers in Congo

05/20/01 -- Swede among foreigners abducted in DR Congo: foreign ministry

05/20/01 -- Liberia's Rain Forest Vanishes as Foreign Logging Expands

05/18/01 -- Satellite Images Show Fertile Crescent Devastation

05/18/01 -- FERTILE CRESCENT: Satellite data shows environmental ruin

05/18/01 -- Marshlands of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta 90 Percent Gone

05/18/01 -- Tropical forest conservation proceeds in West Africa despite social and political

05/18/01 -- Preserving Eden in the Gulf of Aden

05/17/01 -- Presbyterian Church: Vote Kenyan Government Out for Environmental Sins

05/16/01 -- Mesopotamia's marshes 'set to vanish'

05/16/01 -- Seed search finds vanished plants

05/16/01 -- Museveni to set up committee to investigate Congo plunder allegations

05/16/01 -- Government Suspends Excision of Forest Land

05/14/01 -- Land reform programme hits Zimbabwean national park

05/13/01 -- Kenyans clash over threatened forests

05/10/01 -- Stately Elephant Moment in Burkina Faso Is a Bit Like an Elegy

05/09/01 -- Government Plans to Give Away 5% of Its Forests

05/09/01 -- Mining Drives Congo's Gorillas Close to Extinction

05/08/01 -- Tanzanian gold mine pollution causing deaths

05/07/01 -- Responsibility fight over oil blowout in Nigeria

05/07/01 -- Take Part in an Important Biological Survey in the Central African Republic - Without Ever Leaving Your Desk

05/07/01 -- New park to open in Congo

05/03/01 -- Oil 'time-bomb' in Nigeria

04/27/01 -- Combating the alien invasion in South Africa

04/26/01 -- Spanish Greenpeace Supports Embargo on Liberia's "Wood of War"

04/25/01 -- Lake Chad has shrunk into "a ghost"

04/25/01 -- Confessions of a poacher turned conservationist

04/24/01 -- Goldman Environmental Prize Recipient from Africa: Eugene Rutagarama

04/24/01 -- British Zoologist Banned from Ghana Dam Site

04/24/01 -- $1m for Forest Re-Assessment

04/23/01 -- Gorillas' friend wins global award

04/23/01 -- Elephant band raises awareness of wildlife plight

04/23/01 -- Activist Opposes New Kenyan Government Plan for Forests

04/22/01 -- Farmers Seeing Red Over Rare Monkeys

04/21/01 -- Ugandan officials discuss U.N. report on Congo minerals plunder

04/20/01 -- Elephants never forget, especially grande dames

04/19/01 -- Why elephants don't forget

04/19/01 -- Kenya's Parliament in an Uproar Over Forest Destruction

04/19/01 -- Forest Land Given to Moi Son: MP

04/19/01 -- Elephant Families Owe Their Success to Matriarchs' Age, Social Skills

04/17/01 -- Congo war devastating endangered wildlife - UN

04/15/01 -- Kenya's Forest Allocation Plan Unsettles Environmentalists

04/13/01 -- Miners' Rush For Coltan Threatens Rare Gorilla

04/13/01 -- South African President Reopens Flooded Kruger National Park

04/09/01 -- Minister Denies Forests, Poll Plot

04/09/01 -- Gorillas face doom in the forest

04/09/01 -- Environment-South Africa: Rights to Develop New Plants SoldOff

04/06/01 -- Denmark to Help S. Africa Protect Forests

04/05/01 -- Turning Kenya's Forests Around

04/05/01 -- Kenya to Import Timber And Spare Local Forests

04/04/01 -- Kruger park sale of white rhinos disputed

04/03/01 -- The last true wilderness

04/02/01 -- Kenyan Govt. Urged to Halt Forest Excisions

03/29/01 -- InsideCameroon, Issue #2

03/27/01 -- Minister Says Cameroon Forest Not For Sale

03/26/01 -- Neglected Forest to Be Rehabilitated As Public Park

03/25/01 -- Leaders Condemn Excision of Forests

03/23/01 -- Megatransect: 1,200 Miles Through the African Forest

03/23/01 -- Forest of controversy grows in Kenya

03/23/01 -- DC Decries Destruction of Forests

03/22/01 -- Kenya can’t see wood for trees

03/20/01 -- Opposition Grows to Kenya's Forest Plan

03/20/01 -- Coltan mining threatens wildlife in Congo

03/19/01 -- State Ignores Directive On Forests

03/19/01 -- Religious Bodies to Sue Government Over Forests

03/19/01 -- Mining damage Congolese World Heritage sites

03/19/01 -- Forests: Is the Govt Defying Court Order?

03/18/01 -- Nigeria’s environmental basket case

03/17/01 -- Forest carve-up unites Kenya

03/16/01 -- WWF Director General protests move to degazette Kenyan forests

03/16/01 -- Kenyan High Court blocks forest destruction

03/16/01 -- Green-backed NZ govt redfaced over African timber

03/16/01 -- Eating elephants and apes: the bushmea

03/14/01 - Conservationist makes ultimate walk on the wild side

03/13/01 -- Demand for 'bushmeat' puts African wildlife at risk

03/12/01 -- Root causes behind "bushmeat crisis" mostlydisregarded

03/12/01 -- Call to save Africa's disappearing wildlands

03/10/01 -- Groups To Block Forest Excision In Court

03/09/01 -- New Law Could Help In The Forest Crusade

03/08/01 -- Gorillas Make Home in "Impenetrable" Forest

03/08/01 -- Elephants eat their way to equilibrium

03/07/01 -- UN Imposes Sanctions on Liberia's Diamond Exports

03/07/01 -- Maathai Held Over Forest Petition

03/06/01 -- Kenya Wins Conservation Award -- Then Loses It

03/02/01 -- Conservationists sceptical about watchdog for Chad-Cameroon pipeline

03/01/01 -- Watchdog Appointed for Chad-Cameroon Pipeline

03/01/01 -- UNEP Concerned of Increased Deforestation in Kenya

02/28/01 -- Risk of increasing deforestation in Kenya

02/28/01 -- Africa's shrinking Lake Chad destined to be a puddle

02/28/01 -- UNEP Chief Criticizes Kenya's Logging Plans

02/27/01 -- U.N. Protests at Loss of Kenyan Forests

02/27/01 -- UN environment agency alarmed by Kenyan deforestation

02/25/01 -- Chad-Cameroon pipeline finally under closer supervision

02/24/01 -- Leaders Can't Cancel Nation's Debt

02/23/01 -- Green Movement Set to Block Minister's Move On Forests

02/23/01 -- Forests Safe, Says Minister

02/23/01 -- Follow-up Action: Stop Irresponsible Mining/Kenya

02/22/01 -- Depleting Forests Pose Challenge

02/18/01 -- Maathai Opposes Allocation Of Forests

02/17/01 -- KENYA: Who will save our natural heritage?

02/17/01 -- Kenya: Govt gazettes excision of 13 forests

02/15/01 -- Ogiek Protest Against Forest Excision

02/15/01 -- New Hope For South Africa's Endangered Species

02/12/01 -- Forests Allocated, Claims Party

02/12/01 -- First Issue of Inside Cameroon

02/06/01 -- Gorillas thrive in the midst of war

02/04/01 -- Zambia bans hunting licences after concessions are exploited

02/01/01 -- Land Policy Wreaks Havoc on Zimbabwe's Wildlife

01/31/01 -- International Help Sought For Kenyan Wetland

01/29/01 -- Ivory Coast forests being denuded by charcoal-makers, fire-burners

01/27/01 -- Liberian timber in UN spotlight

01/26/01 -- Outsiders targetted in the heart of Ivory Coast's western forests

01/26/01 -- Niger: New Strategy to Develop Wood Resources

01/25/01 -- Mountain Gorilla Numbers Rise Despite 10 Years of War

01/22/01 -- Greenbelt Wants Forests Allocations Revoked

01/22/01 -- African, Asian Forest Loss Worries FAO

01/18/01 -- Major effort to save rare toad in Tanzania

01/17/01 -- Overrun with Elephants, Zimbabwe Demands Legal Ivory Sales

01/15/01 -- Republic Of Congo Expands Tropical Forest Refuge

01/14/01 -- Major Effort To Save Rare Toad

01/12/01 -- Coalition Protests Kenya's Demarcation of Forest Land

01/11/01 -- Malawi defies CITIES treaty, kills crocodiles

01/11/01 -- Kenyan Dam Protester Arrested, Shot

01/10/01 -- Soil erosion threatens farm lands of sub-Saharan Africa

01/07/01 -- Environmentalists Urge to Remove Camels from Mt Kenya Forest

01/05/01 -- Cameroon To Check Forest Exploitation With Helicopters

01/05/01 -- Cameroon fights to save rainforest

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