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First Person: Hatching a plan for success in rural Gambia

First Person: Hatching a plan for success in rural Gambia

New York, USA, 01 March 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/In rural areas of The Gambia, job opportunities are scarce, but villagers like Guidom Sabally are benefiting from...
For tigers in Nepal, highways are a giant roadblock best avoided

For tigers in Nepal, highways are a giant roadblock best avoided

A new study indicates that the presence of roads, and vehicle traffic, in tiger habitats could take a toll on the big cats’ behavior...
Scientists confirm plastic is a new threat to the Andean condor in Peru

Scientists confirm plastic is a new threat to the Andean condor...

Researchers have found high levels of plastics in the diets and regurgitated pellets of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) in Peru.The scientists conducted research in...
Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned mining sites

Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned...

Inactive mining sites in Cameroon are continuously abandoned without restoration by foreign companies, leaving behind huge pits in the ground that later form into...
Carbon market intermediaries act with little transparency, according to report

Carbon market intermediaries act with little transparency, according to report

A new report reveals that few of the brokers, resellers and cryptocurrency vendors that act as intermediaries in the voluntary carbon market reveal the...
Newly described DiCaprio’s snake and others threatened by mining in Ecuador and Panama

Newly described DiCaprio’s snake and others threatened by mining in Ecuador...

Researchers have described five new species of snail-eating snakes from the upper Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador and Colombia and the Chocó-Darién forests of Panama.Three...
In Brazil, criminals dismantle one of the best-preserved swaths of the Amazon

In Brazil, criminals dismantle one of the best-preserved swaths of the...

The Terra do Meio Ecological Station spans 3.37 million hectares (8.33 million acres) in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Pará and is home to...
France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport

France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest...

As the European Union finalizes its third Renewable Energy Directive (REDIII), France is seeking an exemption to enable the European Space Agency and French...
Bangladesh bans suckermouth catfish in light of threats to native fish species

Bangladesh bans suckermouth catfish in light of threats to native fish...

Considering its aggressive breeding nature and the threats the species poses to native fish populations, the Bangladesh government has recently banned suckermouth fish.The suckermouth...
Niyel screens 9 sanitation documentaries by african filmmakers at the first fsma short film festival in Ivory Coast 

Niyel screens 9 sanitation documentaries by african filmmakers at the first...

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire 27 February 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Niyel, an international, impact-driven campaigns, advocacy and public affairs firm in Africa, has led a sanitation...
Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

Conservationists can now monitor climate impacts to expansive marine ecosystems over extended periods of time, a task that used to be impossible, using a...
A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Campaigners sue Ghana’s government to block mining of Atewa Forest biodiversity hotspot.Conservationists assist a forest reserve in Zambia to restore itself.Forest certification is expanding...