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Some work is already being done to enhance the tourism sector’s environmental sustainability.
With about 1,500 species, the diversity of birds in east Africa is nearly overwhelming.
Growing traditional African vegetables on building facades is feasible and can improve food supply in cities.
Giraffes are vulnerable to extinction, mainly due to habitat loss and killing for bushmeat markets. The good news is human actions can alleviate that danger.
Environmental degradation of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region is causing poverty as well as food insecurity, increased crime and conflict.
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many weird and wonderful seahorses and pipefish. But they’re under threat.
For developing countries, such as Kenya, there is no template for moving to a low-carbon future while accelerating economic growth and development.
Mountain flora in the Kaokoveld deserve priority conservation efforts.
New and innovative thinking is needed to deal with the reality on the ground in South Africa.
Digitalisation offers a way to preserve indigenous knowledge of agricultural practices and connect new generations of farmers to knowledge and wisdom from the past.
A new ocean treaty could redirect the unsustainable fishing practices that were happening on the high seas to coastal African nations.
Transboundary climate risks can cross borders, continents and oceans to affect communities on the other side of the world. Africa’s new roadmap seeks to address this.
Oceanographic systems vary over years, decades and centuries.
Lion protection fees paid by tourists could pave the way for a responsible transition away from trophy hunting without affecting the communities that rely on hunting revenue.
Nigeria’s new marine and blue economy ministry has promise but it must be well run.
Monitoring and protecting the Kasanka bat colony helps protect bats from the entire sub-continent, and thus supports ecosystem services in a wide area.
Without refugee status people aren’t able to receive valuable support, like the right to live and work in a country.
The new report on alien invasive species doesn’t just concentrate on problems. It also offers solutions.
Many animal species can be detected using a simple, low tech method of collecting DNA from the environment.
Dams are usually built to withstand heavy rainfall or drought.
Rongai’s rapid development has happened without services keeping pace, and the rivers have paid the price.
Climate change is putting pressure on Ethiopia’s largest city, Addis Ababa, and exposing people to disease and natural disasters.
Trans-border collaboration is required to recover protected areas that transverse Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin Republic from armed groups.
South Africa’s white shark population is not in decline but migrating to survive.