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12/30/99--WWF to Construct a Natural Wetland in Zambia

12/27/99--Gabon Government Bans Shrimp Fishing

12/24/99--Last Five Tuli Elephants Free

12/23/99--South Africa Elephant Poacher Gets 20-year Sentence

12/22/99--Shell, Elf Reconsider Africa Pipeline

12/5/99--Maasai Tribe Reaches Land Deal

11/30/99--South Africa to Promote Eco-Tourism

11/29/99--Tanzania Embarks on 100 Million Tree-Planting Campaign

11/23/99--Help Save Nigeria's Cross River Mangrove and Rainforest

11/22/99--CITES Seen Approving S. African Ivory Sale

11/22/99--Poachers Kill 84 Elephants in Zimbabwe Park

11/21/99--Partial Lifting of Ivory Trade Ban too Soon

11/19/99--Migratory Birds and Animals Rapidly Dying Out

11/15/99--Illegal Logging Endangers Kenya Forest

11/12/99--World Bank Completes Chad Oil Study, Waits for Consortium

11/11/99--Madagascar Struggles to Keep up with Demand for Ecological Tourism

11/11/99--Kenya Shuts Forests to Loggers

11/11/99--CHAD: Future of Pipeline in Doubt

11/11/99--Bwindi Gorilla Tourism Back on Track

11/11/99--Oil Companies Pull Out of African Oil Project

11/9/99--South Africa to Seek Permission to Sell Ivory

11/9/99--Forest Destruction Alarms Western Environment Groups

11/8/99--African Chiefs Confront Illegal Logging

11/7/99--Chimpanzees More Diverse than We Thought

11/6/99--Kenyan Forest in Danger of Total Loss

11/5/99--Deforestation Culprit for Lake Victoria's Killer Weed

11/4/99--Africa, the Infectious Continent

11/1/99--Wildlife Still Survives Poachers in Remote African Jungle

10/29/99--Interview with Jane Goodall--Passion of a Celebrated Animal Activist

10/27/99--World Bank Backs Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline

10/26/99--U.N. Calls for More Efforts to Fight Desertification

10/25/99--Wildlife Groups Compete First Running of Chinko River

10/25/99--South Africa: State Forests to Be Put on the Market Again

10/25/99--Congolese Town Is Wilderness Again

10/25/99--Zambian Forest Reserve Threatened

10/24/99--Three African Nations Create Joint Conservation Area

10/23/99--Small Kenyan Tribe Battles Government Over Fate of Forest

10/21/99--Uganda Refuses to Approve Money for Tree Planting

10/21/99--Africa Update and NAFTA for Africa Action Alert

10/18/99--Sudan: Ecologists Win Legal Case To Save Forest

10/19/99--Exploitation Turning Vast Areas of Africa into a Virtual Wasteland

10/16/99--African Soil May Be Own Worst Enemy

10/14/99--African Developing Nations Get Forest Help

10/13/99--Looting Congo's Natural Resources

10/11/99--Madagascar Establishes Spectacular National Park

10/10/99--Lucky Lemurs in Madagascar's Newest Park; Others at Risk

10/8/99--Timber Magnate Wants Ban on Logs Export Lifted

10/6/99--Jury Still Out on African Ivory Sales

9/30/99--World Bank Defends African Pipeline Project

9/27/99--Environmentalists Protest African Oil Pipeline

9/27/99--Activist Scales World Bank to Protest African Pipeline

9/25/99--WWF Works Behind Scenes for African Forests

9/23/99--African Debt Problems on Front Burner

9/22/99--Losing Trees to War in Angola

9/9/99--AIDS Research Threatened by World Bank Project

9/6/99--Burkina Launches Afforestation Project

9/6/99--Africa Urged to Conserve Natural Resources

9/2/99--South Africa Receives Bids for State Forests

9/2/99--Grand Plan to Save World's Rare Plants--Kenya as an Example

9/1/99--Cameroon Suspends Ban on Log Exports

8/30/99--Kenyans Work Towards Reforestation

8/29/99--List of Biodiversity Sites Which Have Information About Africa

8/28/99--Illegal Logging Rips Up Tanzanian Forests

8/27/99--Exxon-Led Group Gears Up for Work on Chad Oil Pipeline

8/26/99--Forest Elephants Abound in Central African National Park

8/25/99--S. African Timber Exporters See Window of Opportunity

8/20/99--UNDP to Help Protect Elephants in Sri Lanka

8/20/99--S. Africa Seeks World Heritage Status for Rock Art Park

8/19/99--Gorillas Threatened in Africa's War-Torn Heart

8/19/99--Demand for Bush Meat Threatens Future of Study

8/18/99--A Letter from Nigerian Rainforest: 'Without You, We Could Not Have Gone This Far.'

8/17/99--Uganda Timber Dealers Protest Government Inaction

8/16/99--Zambian Women Empowered in Forestry Management

8/14/99--Gorillas Draw New Tourists After Central Africa's Civil Wars

8/13/99--Irin Special Report on West African Gas Pipeline

8/12/99--Growing Demand for 'Bushmeat' Threatens Great Apes

8/12/99--Kenyan Environmental Campaign Searching for Donors to Fund Documentary About Environmental Threats

8/7/99--Africa Takes Tentative Steps Toward Protecting Rainforests

8/6/99--Ivory Sale Opened Door for Illegal Trade Says IFAW

8/5/99--Full Page Ad in New York Times Challenges World Bank Pres. About African Oil Pipeline

8/4/99--Scientist Says W. African Plant May Be Ebola Cure

8/3/99--Forest Fires Could Devastate Uganda’s Rare Mountain Gorillas

8/3/99--Uganda Mountain Gorillas Threatened by Forest Fires

8/3/99--Forest Fires Threaten Uganda’s Gorillas

8/2/99--Lemurs Called Key to Madagascar Forest Survival

8/1/99--Starved by War, Hungry Congolese Turn to Park Animals for Survival

7/30/99--Kenya Authorities Recover Major Haul of Poached Ivory

7/30/99--Africa: Rumbles in the Jungle

7/29/99--Depletion of Kenya’s Rare Plants Alarms Experts

7/29/99--Burkina Faso Environmentalists Declare War on Desertification

7/28/99--Congolese War Contributes to Devastation of Gorilla Population

7/26/99--World Bank Humiliated by Helium Balloon Prank Protesting African Oil Pipeline

7/26/99--Fifty Disqualified as Uganda Felling Ban Is Lifted

7/22/99--Anthrax Breaks Out in Kruger National Park

7/21/99--Stop Funding for African Oil Pipeline Through Cameroon Rainforests

7/18/99--Elephants Back in South Africa's Knysna Forest

7/18/99--Cameroon Ban on Endangered Hardwoods, But with a Loophole

7/16/99--Dangerous Africa Trade Bill Passes House Despite Warning from Forest Protection Leaders

7/16/99--Dangerous Africa Trade Bill Passes House

7/1/99--Cameroon Bans Some Hardwood Exports in Response to Heavy Logging

7/1/99--Cameroon Makes Exceptions to Log Export Ban

7/1/99--Two Species of Hardwoods Taken-Off of Cameroon's List of Banned Exports

6/29/99--Violent Eviction from Tanzanian Forest Ends in Court

6/24/99--'NAFTA for Africa' Bill Threatens Rainforests, Action Needed to Stop it

6/19/99--The Ogiek Need Your Action Now; Final Justice Must Come Next Week

6/15/99--Chad Says World Bank to Decide on Pipeline in September

6/10/99--Action Alert: South African National Park Under Threat

6/9/99--Two Congos to Fight Illicit Timber Trade

6/7/99--Rangers Sent to Guard Kenyan Forest from Squatters

6/7/99--Sierra Leoneans Alarmed Over Deforestation

6/7/99--Zambia's Flora and Fauna Under Threat from Industrialization

6/5/99--Public Must Not Forget About the Ogiek's Struggle

6/4/99--No Final Justice Yet for the Ogiek in Case Versus Kenya

6/2/99--African Medicinal Tree Threatened with Extinction

6/1/99--Senegal, Mauritania Get 12 Million Dollars for Reforestation

5/31/99--Lobbying Intensifies Over African Oil Project

5/30/99--Land Case Involving Kenya's Honey Hunters Goes to Court

5/28/99--Kenya's Ogiek Threatened with Loss of Ancestral Lands

5/28/99--Support Land Rights for Kenya's Ogiek People

5/27/99--Gabon, Africa: Pristine Rainforest Threatened by French Company

5/19/99--South Africans to Slaughter Baboons for Meat Export

5/19/99--Greenpeace Belgium Protests Cameroon Logging

5/11/99--Congo Republic Boycotts African Forestry Group

5/5/99--Small African Farmers' Seed Rights Up for Grabs

5/2/99--Will US Aid in the Greening of World's 'Dust Bowls'?

4/23/99--First Loggers, then Bushmeat Hunters Strip the Rainforests

4/23/99--Conservation Groups Move to Limit Trade in Game Meat

4/23/99--In Logged Forests Hunting of Wildlife Becomes Deadly 'Second Harvest'

4/22/99--African Development Pegged to Usage of Biological Resources

4/22/99--South African Elephants Spared from Culling

4/20/99--Mt. Kilimanjaro Ablaze; Mountain Faces One Environmental Disaster After Another

4/19/99--Fifteen Hundred to Demonstrate in DC Against NAFTA for Africa

4/14/99--Zimbabwe Holds Ivory Auction, Says Elephants Safe

4/12/99--Thousands of Squatters Vow to Invade Forest in Kilifi

4/7/99--Smugglers Trap Nigeria's Endangered Grey Parrots to Brink of Extinction

4/5/99--Congo-Cameroon Timber Transportation Damages Roads in Cameroon

4/1/99--Botswana Plans Secret Elephant Ivory Auction

3/19/99--World Bank Urges Action to Save African Forests

3/18/99--Central African Nations Sign Deal to Protect Rainforest

3/16/99--Five African Nations Combine to Protect Threatened Forests in Congo Basin, Central Africa

3/11/99--Report Says Mau Forest Hit by Degradation from Agricultural Activities

3/9/99--Drought Cuts Size of Lake Chad 90 Percent in 40 Years

3/4/99--Southernmost Point of Africa Declared a Gift to the Earth

2/26/99--Conflict Halts 15 Congo Republic Forestry Firms

2/23/99--Congo Republic to Close Illegal Logging Operations

2/19/99--Congo Republic to Close Illegal Sawmills

2/18/99--Ghana Reduces Annual Allowable Timber Cut

2/10/99--HIV-1 Source Found to be Chimpanzees in Logging-Threatened Rainforests

2/10/99--UN Group Lifts Ban on Sale of Ivory

2/10/99--Elephant Ivory Trade to Resume on Limited Scale

2/10/99--Environmentalists Losing Battle to Save West African Jungles

2/8/99--World Bank Monitoring Developments over Karura Forest in Kenya

2/2/99--Kenyan MPs Charged over Forest Protests

2/2/99--Three Arrested in Kenya Forest Protest

1/30/99--Kenyan Students Battle Police over Land Sale

1/29/99--Ghana's New Perspective on Trees

1/28/99--Increase in African Poaching Linked to Logging

1/27/99--Cameroon Foresters Concerned about Log Export Ban

1/20/99--Timber Poachers Descend on Kenyan Park

1/19/99--Timber Industries Re-Forest Waste Lands in Abidjan

1/19/99--Kenya Launches Elephant Census

1/18/99--How the Storm Has Built up over Allocation of Karura Plots

1/17/99--Why the Karura Forest Issue Will Not Die Soon

1/15/99--Embattled Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda Survive

1/11/99--UN Chief Condemns the Beating of Kenyan Ecologist

1/8/99--Kenyan Environmentalist Beaten at Protest

1/7/99--Cameroon Determined to Ban Log Exports in 1999

1/6/99--Rampant Logging Endangers Aberdare Forest

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