
Addis Ababa faces growing climate change risks like heat, drought and floods, study warns
People living in informal settlements are particularly at risk – that’s about 70% of Addis Ababa’s residents.
People living in informal settlements are particularly at risk – that’s about 70% of Addis Ababa’s residents.
Yala swamp has been left vulnerable for years leading to its degradation and biodiversity loss.
Although South Sudan has a Wildlife Act, as most African countries do, it does not have “elaborate and comprehensive wildlife policies and laws” to enforce this act.
By Richard Drasimaku While growing up as a child, Ben Afidra Amorimvapi, a resident of
As Grâce testified, many local people turn to bushmeat because it is cheaper.
It’s not known how many hippos are left across Africa, but during the past few decades, this animal that has been labelled the continent’s second-most dangerous after the lion
The Ogiek elders came up with their own traditional bylaws which prevent the cutting of trees in the region.
The irrigation upgrade on the Nyabarongo River is part of Rwanda’s efforts for water conservation in the agricultural sector.
According to wildlife officials, Ethiopia had more than 10,000 elephants in the 1970s but poaching and habitat degradation have reduced the number to about 2,500 to 3,000 in recent years.
Farmers and breeders set destructive wildfires in Burundi’s wildlife reserves in the summer months, burning thousands of hectares of land.
Almost every month, the national police, the customs services, and the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) conduct seizures of protected wildlife species and ivory
26 percent of the world population (2 billion people) did not have access to safe drinking water as of 2020.