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WWF Conservation Projects in Tanzania
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Located in southeastern Tanzania, the Selous Game Reserve is one of Africa’s largest protected areas. The reserve is home to large numbers of elephant...
Conserving the woodlands of central and southern Africa
Covering much of central and southern Africa, the Miombo ecoregion is an area of 3.6 million km2 ranging across parts of Angola, Botswana, the Democra...
African Stockpiles Programme
The African Stockpiles Programme (ASP) aims to clear obsolete pesticide stocks from Africa and put in place measures to help prevent their recurrence....
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Treaty parties learn of 40 proposed wildlife trade rule changes
Proposals for tighter trade controls for species such as the Atlantic Blue Fin tuna, sharks and corals have been submitted for the next meeting of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES). The meeting to consider the proposed changes to trade rules is scheduled to be held in Quatar in March.
Flow plan for less talk and more action as climate change hits rivers
Managers and stakeholders in freshwater systems need to stop talking about adaptation to climate change and start doing it, WWF told the World Water Week symposium in Stockholm today.
More of Africa urged to boost rhino numbers
After bringing Africa’s black rhinos spectacularly back from the brink of extinction one of the world’s most successful conservation programmes is to celebrate its first decade by seeking to extend its operations to more of Africa.
“What we know from looking back at the last ten years is that sustained conservation can and does work,” says George Kampamba, WWF International’s African Rhino Programme Coordinator.
New guide to reducing bycatch goes online
As a service to the long-term sustainability of both fish stocks and fishing communities, WWF has established an online resource providing up-to-date information on bycatch (the capture of non-target creatures in fishing gear) and how to reduce it.
Search for "night time spinach" threatens wildlife, local livelihoods
Meat hungry refugees are sustaining a thriving wildlife poaching trade in Tanzania, according to a report by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.
Sea turtles threatened by rising seas
Sea turtles lay their eggs into the beach sand. Many return to the exact beaches that they were hatched to lay the eggs for the next generation of turtles. But sea level rise due to climate change threatens beach habitat. A new study predicts that turtle reproduction will be hard hit.
Tanzania's disappearing timber revenue
Millions of dollars worth of timber revenue is being lost each year in Tanzania because of poor governance and rampant corruption in the forestry sector, according to a report by TRAFFIC International.
Factsheet: African Elephant
A powerful symbol of nature, the world's largest land animal is still under threat.
New studies find high species concentration in east African mountains
Studies published this month in a scientific journal document an amazingly high concentration of species unique to the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya.
WWF report on climate change impacts in East Africa
WWF review of the scientific literature of climate change impacts on East Africa
