Birdwatching

TRANS BOUNDARY PARK WILL BE A SYMBOL OF PEACE AND STABILITY........


The presidents of Sierra Leone and Liberia Jointly inaugurated a trans boundary rainforest Peace Park, which will protect one of the largest remaining blocks of intact of West Africa.....






DEATHLY OWL SCARES ZIMBABWEAN FAMILY.......


The Chitofu family living in Eastiea, Zimbabwe, feared that they had been bewitched by an owl which had haunted them for four months and refused to fly away when approached....





AFRICA MAKES PROGRESS IN CONSERVING IBAs.......


The annual planning and review meeting of the Africa Protected Area-IBA Monitoring Project was held in the first week of march 2009, hosted by Association "Les Amis des oiseaux". The preliminary findings of the midterm evaluation, presented at the meeting, revealed that the project is on course, and that a lot of work has gone into addressing the key deliverables....


IMPROVING EFFICIENCY IN MONITORING AFRICA'S IBA's



It is taken as given that Africa is well endowed with rich biodiversity. Increasingly, national governments, NGOs and other stakeholders are making concerted efforts to protect it. However,Africa is a vast continent and hence investments of limited resources in conservation work need to be targeted to those areas where they will deliver the highest possible returns....







ACTION PLAN FOR WHITE WINGED FLUFFTAIL MUST ADDRESS MIGRATION QUESTION.....



A workshop to develop an International Single Species Action Plan for Endangered White winged Flufftail has been held in Ababa, Ethiopia.
Although the flufftail has been recorded at nine wetland sites in the south...









MADAGASCAR POND HERON THROWN A LIFELINE.....



The Endangered Madagascar pond heron has recieved much needed attention from all its range states.....



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