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Forestry director calls for attitudinal change

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The director of the Forestry department, Jatto Sillah, has stressed the need for attitudinal change amongst Gambians towards the sustainable...

Protect our forest

Monday, March 23, 2009

Editorial, Timber trade is increasingly becoming a lucrative venture. Each time one walks along the streets, one is bound to see one or two trucks...

YoRTA, LMU hold ecotourism symposium

Sunday, March 01, 2009

The Youth Responsible Tourism Association (YoRTA), The Gambia, in collaboration with Leeds Metropolitan University from the UK, recently held a...

Incentives for NBR agric scholars

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Badara Jobe, the director of the Njawara Agricultural Training Centre (NATC), has described 2008 as a successful and challenging year, noting that...

Greenpeace opens African Office - focusing on climate change, deforestation and overfishing

Friday, November 14, 2008

Greenpeace Africa opened its first office in Johannesburg today, announcing a long-term commitment to building a strong presence in Africa dedicated...

MADAGASCAR: Despite odds, country saves more trees

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Despite a demand for more agricultural land, poverty-stricken Madagascar has managed to reduce deforestation by almost half, environment groups say. ...

NIGERIA: The desert is fast encroaching but why?

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Experts agree that an estimated 35 percent of land that was cultivatable 50 years ago is now desert in 11 of Nigeria’s northern states, but what they...

GTZ fosters tropical forest conservation in the Congo Basin

GTZ

Sunday, December 23, 2007

For the next two years, Germany will coordinate the Congo Basin Forest Partnership, which strives to improve conservation of tropical forests in the...

CO2 levels rising faster than predicted - Greenpeace response

Greenpeace

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Responding to findings by the Global Carbon Project, published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” this week, that atmospheric...