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					<title>Striking ‘red gold’ with saffron farming in Algeria: Interview with Keltouma Adouane</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/striking-red-gold-with-saffron-farming-in-algeria-interview-with-keltouma-adouane/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Dec 2025 09:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Anna Weekes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Algeria, and North Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Business, Climate Change, Food, and Natural Resources]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s most expensive plant, saffron, is as delicate as it is valuable. Each purple flower blooms for less than three weeks a year, and only its three tiny, fragile red stigmas are edible. Harvesting them is a painstaking process: picked by hand at dawn and dried with extreme care, as even the slightest pressure [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s most expensive plant, saffron, is as delicate as it is valuable. Each purple flower blooms for less than three weeks a year, and only its three tiny, fragile red stigmas are edible. Harvesting them is a painstaking process: picked by hand at dawn and dried with extreme care, as even the slightest pressure can dull their aroma and flavor. It takes nearly 200,000 flowers to yield a single kilogram of dried saffron, just over 2 pounds, and the plant may take up to two years to flower. In 2015, Algerian schoolteacher Keltouma Adouane fell seriously ill; a saffron-infused drink was an important part of her recovery and continued health, she told Mongabay, but it was very expensive in the Béjaïa region where she lives. So she decided to experiment with growing her own saffron from bulbs. “I planted them and after waiting for almost two months, the result was there. And to tell you the truth, the result was truly spectacular. I was really fascinated. I couldn&#8217;t believe what I saw when I saw the big purple carpet of flowers that emerged from the ground.” Adouane bought more saffron bulbs and joined the Association of Rural Women of Béjaïa (AFUD), an Algerian nonprofit that supports rural women’s projects related to crafts, farming and food sovereignty, and links them to markets. She took training courses in mushroom cultivation, cheesemaking and cosmetics production alongside other enterprising women. Algeria’s mostly rural Béjaïa province is home to 388,000 people. Most farmers tend&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/striking-red-gold-with-saffron-farming-in-algeria-interview-with-keltouma-adouane/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-311891</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Fears of major locust swarms wane in the Sahel but agencies step up monitoring</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/fears-of-major-locust-swarms-wane-in-the-sahel-but-agencies-step-up-monitoring/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Oct 2025 11:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Stephanie Achieng’]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Algeria, East Africa, Mali, North Africa, and Tunisia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Crops, Disasters, Farming, Food, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Human-wildlife Conflict, Insects, Monitoring, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAIROBI — In May and June, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s commission for controlling desert locust outbreaks in West and Northwest Africa warned that heavy rainfall and vegetation in North Africa could support major locust swarms in the Sahel this year. These fears are now receding as experts say major swarms are unlikely while the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAIROBI — In May and June, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s commission for controlling desert locust outbreaks in West and Northwest Africa warned that heavy rainfall and vegetation in North Africa could support major locust swarms in the Sahel this year. These fears are now receding as experts say major swarms are unlikely while the FAO and national authorities are maintaining their monitoring. Teams in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia responded with ground and aerial control operations, supported by the FAO. By July, reported locust numbers had declined significantly. Cyril Piou, locust forecasting officer at FAO, said heavy storms across Mauritania, Mali and Niger in late July and August meant large locust swarms could still occur. “As anticipated, locust activity decreased in North Africa following the end of the spring breeding season. However, heavy rains in parts of the Sahel could create favorable breeding conditions if they continue in September,” he told Mongabay. For now, field reports are encouraging. “No reports of desert locust presence were received from the field,” said Sory Cissé, national director of Mali’s locust control unit. “The situation has remained calm throughout Mali and the wider Sahel, from Mauritania to Chad via Niger,” he told Mongabay. He noted that alternating torrential rains and long dry spells have discouraged breeding so far. While this situation could still change as the rainy season unfolds, Piou agreed that the risk of major swarming in 2025 is receding. “Given that locust populations were already significant during the spring, this summer’s breeding&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/fears-of-major-locust-swarms-wane-in-the-sahel-but-agencies-step-up-monitoring/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/agencies-race-to-prevent-new-food-crisis-as-locusts-return-to-northern-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Jul 2025 17:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Stephanie Achieng’]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Algeria, Chad, East Africa, Niger, North Africa, and Tunisia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Chemicals, Climate Change, Conservation, Crops, Disasters, Environment, Farming, Food, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Human-wildlife Conflict, Insects, Monitoring, Pesticides, Poisoning, Pollution, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAIROBI — Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth of vegetation, and rising temperatures since February 2025 speeding their reproductive cycle, ideal breeding conditions for locusts are in place. Significant outbreaks have already been reported in Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, while smaller [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAIROBI — Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth of vegetation, and rising temperatures since February 2025 speeding their reproductive cycle, ideal breeding conditions for locusts are in place. Significant outbreaks have already been reported in Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, while smaller bands have appeared elsewhere across the Sahara Desert’s northern boundary, and in Saudi Arabia. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and its regional partners have issued caution-level alerts for Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Chad, and Niger. The FAO is coordinating efforts with national authorities to prevent the insects from spreading south into the Sahel, where further rains could trigger a new wave of breeding. “The current outbreaks are due to very favorable breeding conditions over a six-month period in the northern Sahel, following significant rainfall in August and September 2024,” said Cyril Piou of FAO’s Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS). Newly hatched desert locusts near Medenine, Tunisia. Image © Cyril Piou/FAO. Map of desert locusts&#8217; breeding and invasion areas courtesy of FAO. For now, these outbreaks are significant, but not on the scale of those that preceded swarms that devastated East Africa in 2019 and 2020. That earlier crisis affected more than 20 countries, with swarms covering hundreds of square kilometers and threatening the food security of more than 20 million people. It was triggered by an unusual combination of cyclones and sustained rains that enabled desert locusts to breed rapidly&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/agencies-race-to-prevent-new-food-crisis-as-locusts-return-to-northern-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Photos: Rarest cheetah photographed for the first time</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/photos-rarest-cheetah-photographed-for-the-first-time/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Feb 2009 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Togo, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Conservation, Deserts, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Green, Mammals, Saving Species From Extinction, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the edge of extinction, desert-dwelling cheetah photographed for first time by camera traps]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the edge of extinction, desert-dwelling cheetah photographed for first time by camera trapsThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/photos-rarest-cheetah-photographed-for-the-first-time/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-36958</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cheetah population stabilizes in Namibia with support from farmers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/10/cheetah-population-stabilizes-in-namibia-with-support-from-farmers/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Oct 2008 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Algeria, Botswana, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa, and Zimbabwe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Carnivores, Cats, Cattle, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Hunting, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Poaching, Ranching, Sustainable Development, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cheetah population stabilizes in Namibia with support from farmers An interview with Dr. Laurie Marker,founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com October 2, 2008 Cheetah population stabilizes in Namibia with support from farmers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cheetah population stabilizes in Namibia with support from farmers An interview with Dr. Laurie Marker,founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com October 2, 2008 Cheetah population stabilizes in Namibia with support from farmersThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/10/cheetah-population-stabilizes-in-namibia-with-support-from-farmers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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