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ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Vets to test wild animals for 'mad deer disease'
| May 3, 2001
Wild deer could be routinely tested for "mad deer disease" in Britain following the outbreak of an illness similar to BSE in North America.
FINANCIAL TIMES | Inside Track: Profit by Helping the Poor | May 2, 2001
Everyone wins when business takes up investment opportunities that bring the deprived into the global economy.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Idaho Fights Return of the Grizzly | February 11, 2001
Grizzly bears are to be reintroduced to the north western American state of Idaho despite the fact that the plans are opposed by many local people.
ALLAFRICA | Death Lurks in Rivers | January 15, 2001
Environmental protection has been a controversial subject for years. Sunday Nation writer KEN OPALA examines why the Athi River is classified as among the most polluted. Fish in the ocean was found to contain chromium from a factory anger looms large in River Athi waters and beyond.
ALLAFRICA | Low Rainfall Threatens Cattle Breeding In Burkina Faso | January 8, 2001
Burkina Faso has stepped up efforts to protect its cattle following the scanty rainfall experienced in 26 of the country's 45 provinces during the last cropping year.
BBC | Deadly blizzards sweep, North China | January 8, 2001
At least 21 people been killed after devastating blizzards swept across a remote region of north China on New Year's Eve, the Chinese Government reported on Monday. Three days of blizzards were followed by freezing temperatures and violent sandstorms,which have left tens of thousands of herders, and their livestock stranded on the vast grasslands of Chinese Inner Mongolia.
ALLAFRICA | Drought Claims Northern Animals | January 5, 2001
Communal farmers in the four 'O' regions fear losing more livestock if rains do not fall soon as cattle, goats and donkeys are already dying in some areas.
BBC | Birds threatened by farming methods | January 3, 2001
Yellowhammer are not as common as they once were. New clues are emerging about the reasons for a massive decline in farmland bird species whose song used to be such a part of the sound of the British countryside.
ALLAFRICA | Tanzanians Suffer Environmental Destruction | December 29, 2000
Dust is settling after a bloody battle erupted between Maasai livestock keepers and peasants of the Wakaguru ethnic group in a remote village of Ludewa in central Tanzania.
ALLAFRICA | Wildlife Conservation In East Africa Gets Booster | December 27, 2000
As wildlife populations continue to dwindle in the East African region, US and Kenyan scientists have developed a tool which they expect will greatly reverse the trend and help conserve wildlife.
ALLAFRICA | Pastoralists, Donor Agencies Resolve to Work Together | November 20, 2000
Pastoralists from the Horn of Africa met here with representatives of the donor agencies and resolved to strengthen communication mechanisms between pastoralists, their representatives and the institutions that affect their lives.
ALLAFRICA | Pastoral Communities in Desperate Need of Water | November 20, 2000
In response to a severe drought in northern Tanzania Action By Churches Together ACT International has issued an appeal for over US$ 4 million. The drought is decimating the agriculture and livestock.
ALLAFRICA | Human Activities Threaten Tanzania's Biodiversity | November 20, 2000
Tanzania's wetlands, which cover 94,520 square km, or 10 percent of the land area, are drying up, leaving people to live in areas of declining productivity. Environmental problems currently emerging in the Northern Tarangire-Manyara wetlands are a typical example of how humans are imperilling their own ecological niche.
ALLAFRICA | Save Conservancy Turned Into Farmland | November 17, 2000
District Development Fund tillage units have moved into the Save Conservancy to prepare land for this year's planting season as politicians and invaders strengthen their resolve to turn the private game park into agricultural land.
ALLAFRICA | Livestock To Move Freely Across Borders | November 9, 2000
A common certification system for animal health will soon be in place to allow free movement of livestock across Ethiopia, Kenyan, and Somalia borders.
CNN | Where the Yellowstone buffalo roam | October 16, 2000
when winter snow piles up in Yellowstone National Park, the park's bison are naturally inclined to seek warmer feeding grounds at lower elevations.
ALLAFRICA | Grazing Allowed in Forests | October 5, 2000
Herders have been allowed to graze their animals within forests in Nakuru District. Nakuru District Commissioner James Sirian said yesterday the initiative was part of temporarily measures to minimise conflicts between pastoralists and farmers in the area.
ALLAFRICA | Niger's Poor Pasture Causes Early Cattle Migration | October 5, 2000
Insufficient pasture land in the north of Niger, a region traditionally ideal for stock-rearing, has forced cattle-breeders this year to move early towards the country's southern farming land
ALLAFRICA | Residents Worried Proposed New Tannery Will Threaten Environment | September 28, 2000
Concerned Grahamstown residents are worried that a proposal to build a tannery in the industrial area will lead to air pollution and the contamination of the river running through the Belmont Valley farming area
ALLAFRICA | Drought Worsens Pastoralists' Poverty | September 23, 2000
The prolonged drought has worsened poverty among pastoralists and other vulnerable groups, the Kenya Vulnerability Update says. The report says falling livestock prices, coupled with a high mortality rate and banditry, is endangering the pastoralists' lives.
BBC | Texas in desperate drought | September 19, 2000
Many farms in Texas have gone 80 days without rain - the longest period of drought the state has ever experienced
CNN | Farmers' almanac: Cut the gas, fatten the profits | September 18, 2000
Australian scientists trying to put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions have come up with a plan that is much more than hot air. And livestock farmers Down Under may be fattening their bank accounts because of the program.
CNN | Kenyans move into Uganda with their cattle to escape drought | August 27, 2000
Thousands of heavily armed Kenyans have settled themselves and their hungry cattle in Uganda in recent weeks, raising fears of violent conflict in a region already afflicted by drought.
ALLAFRICA | Activate Laws to Save the Land and Environment | August 27, 2000
Well conserved natural resource base and clean and healthy environment are vital to our survival and prosperity. However, in the pursuit of achieving our goals and objectives, there is a tendency to over exploit the natural resource base often ignoring the long term consequences.
BBC | Zimbabwe wildlife "face disaster" | August 18, 2000
Zimbabwe's policy of redistributing land owned by white commercial farmers threatens "ecological disaster", according to an eminent conservationist.
CNN | NASA urges practical solutions for reducing greenhouse gases | August 16, 2000
Greenhouse gases are the driving force behind global warming. But practical solutions abound to reduce these emissions and slow Earth's warming trend, according to a report from scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
CNN | Africa's appetite for wild animals increases | August 2, 2000
Basic survival drives human populations to use what naturally occurs around them. In eastern and southern Africa, where wages are low and poverty and famine are frequent, more people are turning to wild animals as an economic resource and a source of food.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | America's Grey Wolf to Become Victim of Own Success
| July 4, 2000
To the delight of America's cattle farmers, the grey wolf is to be removed from the federal government's endangered species list.
BBC | Mongolians face human and ecological disaster | March 29, 2000
Almost two million heads of animal have died. It is inevitable that many more will die during the harsh dry spring if we and the international community do not act efficiently. The total economic damage to the country over time may rise to over $1bn.
BBC | Mongolian cattle disaster | February 16, 2000
Harsh winter weather in Mongolia has caused the deaths of more than half a million cattle.
ALLAFRICA | Ecological Model Restores Balance between Wildlife and Humanity | February 10, 2000
As many wildlife numbers continue to decline rapidly in East Africa, scientists today unveiled a new tool that could reverse these trends and save wildlife in an area that is called the jewel of wildlife conservation on Earth.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Australia's Recipe for the Perfect Roast | January 16, 2000
Australian scientists believe they are on the verge of uncovering the secret of producing the perfect Sunday roast beef lunch. If they are right, tough, chewy meat could be a thing of the past
CNN | Don't forget methane, climate experts say | November 10, 1999
The inclusion of methane, the primary component in natural gas, in emission strategies is key to curbing global warming, according to a team of atmospheric scientists, economists and emissions experts.
BBC | Pigs - overproduction and other factors | September 21, 1999
Over-production is often cited as one of the reasons for the current collapse in prices and that has certainly been the case with pigmeat.
BBC | Americas: Argentinian farmers' strike cuts cattle supply | June 07, 1999
There's been a sharp cut in the supply of cattle to regional market places in Argentina, on the second day of a four-day strike by farmers.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Wildlife Will Vanish Unless Farmers are Paid Green Subsidies, Says RSPB | May 28, 1999
Much of Britain's remaining wildlife will disappear unless millions of pounds are pumped into extra "green" subsidies to pay livestock farmers to protect key habitats, according to a new report.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Race to Save Nomads Trapped on Roof of World | December 6, 1998
On the frozen wastes of the world's highest plateau, the worst snowfall in living memory has trapped 28,000 Tibetan and Ladakhi nomads and their herds of yaks, goats and sheep between their summer and winter pastures.
BBC | World: Americas fires threaten Brazil's biggest native Indian reservation | September 1, 1998
The Brazilian authorities have declared a state of high alert in the central region of Mato Grosso, where a major fire is threatening one of the country's largest Indian reservations
BBC | World: Asia-Pacific Follow that cow! | July 16, 1998
As floods struck the town of Mercer in New Zealand's North Island, the community had more to worry about than just saving themselves
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Starving Lions Stray into Farmers' Bullets | July 12, 1998
Starving lions from Kenyan nature reserves, where there is little prey, are hunting further afield and coming into conflict with farmers whose livestock they are eating.
BBC | World: Africa Bush fires sweep Kenyan reserve | July 4, 1998
Strong winds sweeping across Kenya's Tsavo National Park are fanning the flames of some of the bush fires that have already blackened it in large swathes.
BBC | World: Americas: Brazilian farmers start new fires in Amazon | April 16, 1998
The Brazilian government's environmental agency has doubled the number of its inspectors in the Amazonian state of Roraima, which has been devastated by forest-fires over the last two months.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Sheep Threat to Moors Wildlife | December 12, 1996
Huge flocks of sheep, boosted by farm subsidies, are ruining 70 per cent of Britain's heather moorland and threatening many of its wild plants, birds and insects, conservationists said yesterday.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | EU Farm Cash Destroying Nature Reserve | August 28, 1995
In what conservationists say is the latest example of European lunacy, Brussels farm subsidies have been shown to be destroying some of Britain's finest upland nature reserves, themselves protected under EU law.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Waldegrave Hails Transport Deal for Live Animals | June 23, 1995
For the first time there are to be uniform controls on the transport of veal calves and other animals throughout the countries of the European Union.
ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH | Swedes Produce a Kinder Cattle Truck | June 23, 1995
A cattle truck, claimed to be the last word in creature comfort, has been designed by a Swedish company to make the live export of animals across Continental Europe more humane.