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					<title>In Senegal, artisanal fishing kills a surprising number of sharks and rays: study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/in-senegal-artisanal-fishing-kills-a-surprising-number-of-sharks-and-rays-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2026 16:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
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						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Endangered Species, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Biodiversity, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Sharks, Sharks And Rays, Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Senegal, artisanal fishing kills a surprising number of sharks and rays, according to a new study — so many, it probably eclipses industrial fishing, which is more commonly blamed for the species&#8217; decline. The study was published in the journal Ecology and Evolution in March. Researchers analyzed landings of sharks, rays and guitarfish at [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Senegal, artisanal fishing kills a surprising number of sharks and rays, according to a new study — so many, it probably eclipses industrial fishing, which is more commonly blamed for the species&#8217; decline. The study was published in the journal Ecology and Evolution in March. Researchers analyzed landings of sharks, rays and guitarfish at two major artisanal fishery processing sites, Kafountine and Elinkine, in southern Senegal’s Casamance region between June 2021 and July 2022. Most of the catches comprised species at risk of extinction, and many were traded abroad without obligatory export permits, the study found. While the researchers directly counted more than 100,000 harvested sharks, rays and guitarfishes, they estimated the actual number to be at least 174,000, as many were stacked or piled together and couldn’t be accurately counted. This number was surprisingly high, according to lead author Rima Jabado, chair of the Shark Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. Jabado is also the founder of the Elasmo Project, a United Arab Emirates-based nonprofit that focuses on shark and ray conservation. “The study should be read as evidence of a serious problem, not as a ceiling on the true scale of exploitation,” Jabado told Mongabay in an email, adding the findings are conservative. Since the researchers covered only two out of dozens of landing sites in the country, the total number of rays and sharks caught and processed annually could be 1.7 million to 3.5 million, the study estimates. Scientists and environmental organizations&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/in-senegal-artisanal-fishing-kills-a-surprising-number-of-sharks-and-rays-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/nearly-a-million-birds-shipped-from-africa-to-asia-in-15-years-canaries-top-the-list/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Apr 2026 15:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Guinea, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mali, Mozambique, North America, Senegal, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Tanzania, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Health, Infectious Wildlife Disease, Invasive Species, Nature And Health, Parrots, Pet Trade, Public Health, Regulations, Wildlife, Wildlife Crime, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worldwide, people buy and hunt nearly half of the 11,000 bird species in existence. In Asia, Europe, and North and South America, songbirds and parrots are highly desired pets. Collectors pay exorbitant sums for rare species or melodious birds to compete in high-stakes singing competitions. Falconers and sport hunters capture or kill raptors. Belief-based rituals [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worldwide, people buy and hunt nearly half of the 11,000 bird species in existence. In Asia, Europe, and North and South America, songbirds and parrots are highly desired pets. Collectors pay exorbitant sums for rare species or melodious birds to compete in high-stakes singing competitions. Falconers and sport hunters capture or kill raptors. Belief-based rituals in West Africa incorporate vulture parts. Buyers in North America seek dead hornbills and hummingbirds as home décor. The list goes on. This massive commerce threatens more than 200 avian species with extinction. Now, as online marketplaces proliferate, customers can order a bird with a swipe on their phone from anywhere on the planet. Moving birds around the world also spreads deadly diseases, from avian influenza to circovirus, and when non-native birds get loose, they may proliferate, outcompeting residents. “There&#8217;s a lack of awareness and appreciation for the scale of this trade, and little attention on the impacts that this could be having on wild populations or the risks for the spread of invasive species and infectious diseases,” said Rowan Martin, director of bird trade at the nonprofit World Parrot Trust. “If people are not aware that this is even happening, then how are we going to be able to mitigate the risks associated with it?” In an attempt to understand the scale of the live bird trade, Martin and his colleagues used records from U.N. Comtrade, a database that aggregates information on all commodities traded between countries. The team analyzed live bird imports into&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/nearly-a-million-birds-shipped-from-africa-to-asia-in-15-years-canaries-top-the-list/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Senegal GTA gas project draws international scrutiny</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/senegal-gas-project-draws-international-scrutiny/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Feb 2026 17:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
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						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Senegal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Fisheries, food security, Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Oceans, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[The  UK’s OECD national contact point (NCP), which oversees complaints related to corporate conduct with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has ruled admissible a complaint from Senegalese fishers alleging wrongdoing by energy companies in Senegal.      A local NGO and an artisanal fishers’ association assert that the natural gas platform Grand Tortue Ahmeyim [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The  UK’s OECD national contact point (NCP), which oversees complaints related to corporate conduct with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has ruled admissible a complaint from Senegalese fishers alleging wrongdoing by energy companies in Senegal.      A local NGO and an artisanal fishers’ association assert that the natural gas platform Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) offshore Senegal is polluting their local environment. In a win for civil society, the OECD plans to bring all parties to the negotiating table to find a solution.      “This decision is a major one,” Mamadou Sarr, spokesperson for Gaadlou Guèrri, the association of artisanal fishers that brought the complaint, told Mongabay in a phone call. “It can later help us seek compensation for the losses we have suffered, for the environmental consequences, and for gas leaks,” he added. The OECD is an organization of 38 member states, including the U.K., that have committed to respecting guidelines that cover several areas of corporate responsibility, including human rights, the environment and corruption. GTA is being co-developed by multinational oil company BP, U.S.-based Kosmos Energy and the national oil companies of Senegal and Mauritania. It is located offshore from Saint-Louis, Senegal, near one of the country’s largest fishing communities. The complaint accused the energy companies of denying local artisanal fishers access to the area surrounding GTA, compromising their livelihoods and reducing food availability for local communities. Fish accounts for almost 70% of the animal protein consumed in Senegal. It’s a vital resource for a region facing rising&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/senegal-gas-project-draws-international-scrutiny/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A &#8216;new baseline&#8217;: Study captures accelerating sea-level rise in Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/a-new-baseline-study-captures-accelerating-sea-level-rise-in-africa/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/a-new-baseline-study-captures-accelerating-sea-level-rise-in-africa/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Jan 2026 20:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Benin, Cameroon, Central Africa, Cote D'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, data, El Nino, Environment, Erosion, Flooding, Freshwater, Global Warming, Ice Shelves, Oceans, Oceans And Climate Change, Sea Levels, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting of ice sheets and glaciers, according to a recent study. The study, published Dec. 15 in the journal Communications Earth &#38; Environment, found that sea levels across the continent have risen four times faster since 2010, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting of ice sheets and glaciers, according to a recent study. The study, published Dec. 15 in the journal Communications Earth &amp; Environment, found that sea levels across the continent have risen four times faster since 2010, on average, than they had in the 1990s. The primary reason was additional water mass from polar melt, rather than other phenomena that can cause sea-level rise, the authors found. “When you have ice-free summer [at high latitudes], it means that the water went somewhere,” Franck Ghomsi, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba in Canada and lead author of the study, told Mongabay. “The glacier moved from ice to water, and it [water] started migrating. And it is the tropics [that] are now … getting this outflow of water.” The impacts include flooding, erosion of coastal land, displacement of coastal communities and intrusion of salty seawater into freshwater drinking sources. People in Africa are responsible for only a tiny proportion of human-caused global warming and yet face severe effects from the resulting sea-level rise, said Ghomsi, who is from Cameroon, calling this a “climate injustice.” He said that emissions from countries in the Global North are having a “huge impact” on countries in the Global South, including in Africa. Monthly sea level for Africa from 1993-2023. Annual means are shown in red. Sea-level rise accelerated over the 31-year period, with the rate during&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/a-new-baseline-study-captures-accelerating-sea-level-rise-in-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Senegal’s great green wall progress falters amid unfulfilled pledges: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/senegals-great-green-wall-progress-falters-amid-unfulfilled-pledges-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2025 14:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Yannick Kenné]]>
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						<![CDATA[Christophe Assogba]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Sahel, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Afforestation, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystem Restoration, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Landscape Restoration, Nature-based climate solutions, Reforestation, and Restoration]]>
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							<![CDATA[Earlier in 2025, political and administrative leaders in Senegal gathered to plant trees in a forest in the country’s northwest to mark National Tree Day. They took advantage of the ceremony to call for action towards a greener, more resilient and sustainable country. Senegal is one of 11 countries participating in Africa’s Great Green Wall [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Earlier in 2025, political and administrative leaders in Senegal gathered to plant trees in a forest in the country’s northwest to mark National Tree Day. They took advantage of the ceremony to call for action towards a greener, more resilient and sustainable country. Senegal is one of 11 countries participating in Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative which aims to achieve these goals. However, a newly published study finds the GGW has not delivered ecological benefits on the scale promised by pledges of more than $20 billion in support. According to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the initiative seeks to secure food and water, provide habitat for wildlife, and help stem the outward migration of people from drought-stricken parts of the Sahel: Senegal and 10 other African countries along the Sahel region are partnering in an ambitious effort to restore 100 million hectares (247 million acres) of land, sequester 250 million metric tons of carbon, and create 10 million jobs. The Great Green Wall’s project activities extend from Mauritania and Senegal in the west, across Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria and Chad, into Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti in the east. The study, published in the journal Land Use Policy, highlights the difficulty of translating the promises of the GGW into tangible socio-ecological change. The Senegalese components of the GGW have frequently been cited as a model of progress since the project’s launch in 2007. But, like its dryland and desert counterparts in the project, Senegal has faced serious challenges in carrying out&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/senegals-great-green-wall-progress-falters-amid-unfulfilled-pledges-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/a-forest-garden-project-attempts-to-expand-into-the-sahel/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jul 2025 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Kenya, Mali, Sahel, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Climate Change And Food, Conservation And Poverty, Crops, Degraded Lands, Drought, Dry Forests, Erosion, Extreme Weather, Farming, Food, Hunger, Land Use Change, Monocultures, Natural Resources, Plants, Poverty Alleviation, Reforestation, Trees, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major challenges for the human population. According to environmentalists, one solution to this problem might be forest gardens. These “gardens” use regenerative agroforestry to revive patches of degraded agricultural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major challenges for the human population. According to environmentalists, one solution to this problem might be forest gardens. These “gardens” use regenerative agroforestry to revive patches of degraded agricultural land. In 2024, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) selected a project led by Trees for the Future (TREES), a U.S.-based NGO, as one of seven world restoration flagships for its “forest garden approach” used in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These flagships promote restoration projects around the world that show potential to tackle challenges at scale and provide financial support. “Forest gardens promote healthy soil and diverse crops, leading to increased income and access to healthier food,” Enoch Makobi, country director for TREES in Uganda, told Mongabay. “Farmers are fighting climate change and can overcome poverty and hunger.” While NGO leaders say they’re optimistic about the outcomes of the project so far and their plans for expansion, some other conservationists have expressed skepticism, pointing to a lack of scientific evidence on impacts and the difficulty international NGOs face in tackling local problems and needs. A forest garden is a modern term for an ancient agroforestry model that mixes shrubs, herbs, vines, fruit and nut trees, and perennial vegetables, with the aim of supplying communities with food, medicine and animal feed. According to scientists, forest gardens can have significant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/a-forest-garden-project-attempts-to-expand-into-the-sahel/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Illegal fishing and its consequences: the human toll of migration in Senegal</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/illegal-fishing-and-its-consequences-the-human-toll-of-migration-in-senegal/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jun 2025 08:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Human Migration, Illegal Fishing, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Crisis, Marine Ecosystems, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[“I lost my sons, nephews, and grandson in this tragedy. I lost my older brother’s son. I can say that I lost almost ten relatives in this shipwreck. It is so heartbreaking,” Modou Boye Seck, a resident of Fass Boye, a coastal town in Senegal told the NGO Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). The tragedy Seck [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“I lost my sons, nephews, and grandson in this tragedy. I lost my older brother’s son. I can say that I lost almost ten relatives in this shipwreck. It is so heartbreaking,” Modou Boye Seck, a resident of Fass Boye, a coastal town in Senegal told the NGO Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). The tragedy Seck refers to is that of irregular migration, from Senegal and the Gambia to Europe — more specifically, to the Spanish Canary Islands, which lie off the western coast of Africa. This perilous route claimed more than 2,000 lives in 2024, according to Spain-based migrant protection NGO Caminando Fronteras. The number of Senegalese dying in their attempt to reach Europe is likely much higher, given that many others attempt the journey from neighboring Mauritania. The Mauritania-Canary Islands crossing resulted in nearly 7,000 deaths last year. Saint-Louis, a hub for fisheries in Senegal, lies on the border with Mauritania. It has seen a massive migration of its youth, many of whom travel to Mauritania to reach Europe. Artisanal fishermen at the Saint-Louis pier in northern Senegal. Image by Elodie Toto. According to the EJF report, the rising trend of irregular migration from Senegal is tied to the overexploitation of marine resources — not only by artisanal and industrial domestic fleets, but also by foreign fishing operations. This includes both legally sanctioned fishing under the EU-Senegal fisheries partnership agreements, and illegal practices by vessels that often operate with little oversight. Senegal has a 700-kilometer (430-mile) coastline. It also&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/illegal-fishing-and-its-consequences-the-human-toll-of-migration-in-senegal/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/first-elephant-sighting-in-6-years-sparks-hope-for-species-return-to-a-senegal-park/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jun 2025 18:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Elephants, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Protected Areas, Restoration, Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black-and-white footage shows Ousmane, a bull 35 to 40 years old named after a park ranger, in the forest at night, stopping to look at the camera trap that recorded his presence. Ousmane hadn’t been seen since 2019. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black-and-white footage shows Ousmane, a bull 35 to 40 years old named after a park ranger, in the forest at night, stopping to look at the camera trap that recorded his presence. Ousmane hadn’t been seen since 2019. At the time, just five to 10 elephants remained out of the hundreds that once roamed there. With no recorded sightings for years, conservationists questioned whether any were left there. “[This video] reignited hope that elephants are in the park,” said Philipp Henschel, regional director for West Africa and Central Africa for the conservation nonprofit Panthera, which installed the cameras in Niokolo-Koba National Park in partnership with Senegal’s National Parks Directorate. “He might not be the last elephant currently alive in this ecosystem.” Henschel added that Ousmane is a hybrid, his ancestry a mix of critically endangered African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/17113910/Ousmane.mp4.mp4 Ousmane, the bull elephant that was captured by the camera trap in Niokolo-Koba National Park recently. Video courtesy of Panthera &amp; Senegal’s National Parks Directorate (DPN) Elephants’ demise across the region, and the continent, began during the colonial era. Intensive poaching for ivory, combined with disappearing habitat, decimated West African herds. Niokolo-Koba’s elephants were hit hard, dwindling from a few hundred in the 1960s to fewer than 10. Other wildlife numbers also declined so dramatically that UNESCO added Niokolo-Koba to the World Heritage in Danger List. But&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/first-elephant-sighting-in-6-years-sparks-hope-for-species-return-to-a-senegal-park/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Gas leak from BP platform off West Africa worries fishermen, environmentalists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/03/gas-leak-from-bp-platform-off-west-africa-worries-fishermen-environmentalists/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Mar 2025 11:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Mauritania, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Energy, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Marine, Marine Ecosystems, Natural Gas, Oceans, Oil, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[In January, U.K. oil giant BP announced it had started producing gas from the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project, a natural gas production platform it operates off the coast of Mauritania and Senegal. A month later, Mauritanian media reported that a gas leak had been detected at one of the wells. In a statement shared [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In January, U.K. oil giant BP announced it had started producing gas from the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project, a natural gas production platform it operates off the coast of Mauritania and Senegal. A month later, Mauritanian media reported that a gas leak had been detected at one of the wells. In a statement shared with Mongabay by email, BP’s press office said: “Given the low rate of release and the nature of the gas and condensate, the environmental impact is currently expected to be negligible.&#8221; The company also said it has a team in place to stop the leak. “We have mobilised specialised equipment and personnel to support the clean-up efforts and, as always, the safety of people and the environment remains our top priority,&#8221; it said. On Feb. 25, Mauritania’s environment ministry said it’s “conducting a thorough investigation to contain the situation and mitigate any potential environmental impacts.” The GTA project is being co-developed by BP, U.S.-based Kosmos Energy, and the national oil companies of Senegal and Mauritania. Mongabay previously reported that scientists have raised concerns the offshore platform would pierce the world&#8217;s largest cold-water coral reef, which is likely to have a negative impact on the presence of fish in the region. Coral reefs are important habitats for fish reproduction and shelter a diversity of marine organisms: at least 150 bottom-dwelling species inhabit this reef, according to a study. Coral reefs are also very productive carbon sinks and protect shorelines from the sea. However, three weeks since&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/03/gas-leak-from-bp-platform-off-west-africa-worries-fishermen-environmentalists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Chimps remember, for years, the location of ant nests that provide food</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/chimps-remember-for-years-the-location-of-ant-nests-that-provide-food/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Feb 2025 21:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Charles Mpaka]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Chimpanzees, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Great Apes, Mammals, Primates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe wild fruit. Less has been understood about whether and how the great apes use their memory to locate foods of animal origin, such as army ants, which are known to be rich [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe wild fruit. Less has been understood about whether and how the great apes use their memory to locate foods of animal origin, such as army ants, which are known to be rich in nutrients essential for chimpanzees. Now, a study published in the journal Nature has found that wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can remember the location of hidden underground ant nests for years, and will repeatedly return to nest sites. The study presents the first evidence that wild chimpanzees find insects to feed on using the power of memory, not just opportunistically. It’s also the first to describe how chimpanzees use sight, touch, smell and taste to inspect unoccupied nests and detect if there are ants. “We realised that the fact that the chimpanzees in our study were going back to the same ant nests, even though these were almost never visible, was really important because it suggested that their repeated ant nest visits were not opportunistic, but rather that the chimpanzees relied on their memory to find the nests and revisit them over and over again,” says study co-author R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar. A wild female chimpanzee, carrying her offspring on her back, stands near an army ant nest hidden under fallen leaves in Dindefelo, Senegal. Camera trap image courtesy of Andreu Sánchez-Megías. In the study, Hernandez-Aguilar and Andreu Sánchez-Megías, both from the University of Barcelona’s Faculty&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/chimps-remember-for-years-the-location-of-ant-nests-that-provide-food/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>African nations commit to electricity for 300 million people by 2030</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/01/african-nations-commit-to-electricity-for-300-million-people-by-2030/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jan 2025 09:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kristine Sabillo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Chad, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Banking, Banks, Clean Energy, Climate Change, electricity, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Politics, Environment, Environmental Politics, Finance, Geothermal Energy, Governance, Government, Green, Green Energy, Hydroelectric Power, Impact Of Climate Change, Pollution, Protected Areas, Renewable Energy, and World Bank]]>
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							<![CDATA[The heads of 30 African nations have endorsed a plan to provide “reliable, affordable and sustainable” electricity to 300 million people across the continent over the next five years. The leaders signed the Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration at the “Mission 300” energy summit held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this week. The mission was [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The heads of 30 African nations have endorsed a plan to provide “reliable, affordable and sustainable” electricity to 300 million people across the continent over the next five years. The leaders signed the Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration at the “Mission 300” energy summit held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this week. The mission was launched in April 2024 by the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and its partners. Vincent Nmehielle, secretary-general of the AfDB, told the summit that the declaration outlines commitments to reform the energy sector through practical actions like expanding power infrastructure, incorporating more renewable energy, and incentivizing private sector participation. The electrification boost is also expected to create new jobs. The declaration will be submitted for formal adoption at the African Union Summit in February, the World Bank said in a statement. Twelve countries — Chad, Côte d&#8217;Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia — also presented their country-specific “national energy compacts,” expected to be in place by the end of 2025. These compacts include specific goals and timelines to expand electricity access, address utility efficiency, increase renewable energy generation, attract private investment, and provide clean cooking solutions. Tanzania’s compact, for example, aims to provide electricity to an additional 8.3 million households by 2030, focusing on rural and underserved areas. It also aims to expand the share of renewables in its energy mix from the current 61.8% to 75% by 2030. This will be driven&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/01/african-nations-commit-to-electricity-for-300-million-people-by-2030/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>African women’s assembly unites for climate justice</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2024/11/african-womens-assembly-unites-for-climate-justice/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2024 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fanta Mabo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change and Women in conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[The third Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) took place recently in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together roughly 150 women activists and community leaders from 14 West and Central African countries. The meeting focused on addressing the impacts of the climate crisis in Africa. Among the key resolutions that emerged, participants agreed to establish an African women&#8217;s climate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The third Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) took place recently in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together roughly 150 women activists and community leaders from 14 West and Central African countries. The meeting focused on addressing the impacts of the climate crisis in Africa. Among the key resolutions that emerged, participants agreed to establish an African women&#8217;s climate justice day. The assembly convened at a critical moment as the effects of the climate crisis are increasingly felt across the continent. Africa is said to be the region most vulnerable to climate change, and African women are the first to be impacted. For instance, a study published in February 2024 found that in South Africa, severe flooding destroyed local markets and infrastructure, forcing many women, especially smallholder farmers, to start growing food locally to get by. Across affected areas, more than 25 million women face food insecurity as supplies are disrupted, crops are lost and access to nutritious food restricted.  Research shows that women face “a double burden of gender inequality and environmental degradation.” “In most African communities, women are the guardians of nature; they care for children and aged persons, they cultivate the farms and go in search for water.  As such, when climatic conditions are harsh, with prolonged droughts for example, they are the first to feel these impacts,” Oumou Koltoum Koulibaly, the francophone coordinator for energy and climate justice at WoMin African Alliance, said in a phone call. “Women are the most affected by the climate crisis, yet often underrepresented in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2024/11/african-womens-assembly-unites-for-climate-justice/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>To renew or not to renew? African nations reconsider EU fishing deals</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/to-renew-or-not-to-renew-african-nations-reconsider-eu-fishing-deals/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 May 2024 17:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Europe, European Union, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Consumption, Environment, environmental justice, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Environmental Politics, Fish, Fisheries, Food, Food Crisis, Food Industry, food security, Industry, Law, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overconsumption, Resource Conflict, Saltwater Fish, Social Justice, and Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Senegal now faces a decision it’s faced before. In the mid-2000s, small-scale fishers there mobilized in opposition to a fishing agreement with the European Union that allowed in many dozens of EU industrial vessels to target various fish species. Under this pressure, Senegal’s then-president opted not to renew the deal when it expired in 2006. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Senegal now faces a decision it’s faced before. In the mid-2000s, small-scale fishers there mobilized in opposition to a fishing agreement with the European Union that allowed in many dozens of EU industrial vessels to target various fish species. Under this pressure, Senegal’s then-president opted not to renew the deal when it expired in 2006. A new administration eventually signed a smaller, narrower EU deal in 2014 that allowed 36 tuna vessels and two trawlers into the country’s waters. That deal, renewed in 2019, is set to expire in November. And expire it may well do. Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal’s new president, was elected in March on a platform that included proposing to suspend the deal. It’s not yet clear whether he will follow through, but his rhetoric reflects shifting arrangements in African fisheries, where the EU no longer dominates as it once did. Since 1979, when it signed a bilateral fisheries deal with Senegal, the European bloc has made deals with developing countries, mainly in Africa. Under these deals, now called Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs), European fishing companies gain access to resource-filled foreign waters, while the host countries get cash. Over the last two to three decades, European catches in Africa have declined and SFPAs have contracted somewhat in scale, with fewer big “mixed” deals for multiple species, thanks to depleting stocks and local resistance, and a narrowing of focus onto tuna. Experts see this as a possible win for local control of precious marine resources, as the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/to-renew-or-not-to-renew-african-nations-reconsider-eu-fishing-deals/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fishing by dodgy fleets hurts economies, jobs in developing countries: Report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/fishing-by-dodgy-fleets-hurts-economies-jobs-in-developing-countries-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Apr 2024 13:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mikael Angelo S. Francisco]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oceans]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Ecuador, Ghana, Peru, Senegal, and The Philippines]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Economy, Environmental Economics, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Illegal Fishing, Marine Biodiversity, Marine Crisis, Marine Ecosystems, Mongabay Data Studio, Ocean Crisis, Oceans, and Poverty]]>
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							<![CDATA[Companies implicated in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing can have a serious impact on the economies, job opportunities and overall welfare of the developing countries in whose waters they operate, according to a recent report from London-based global affairs think tank the ODI. The report, released Feb. 16, used consolidated fisheries and satellite data [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Companies implicated in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing can have a serious impact on the economies, job opportunities and overall welfare of the developing countries in whose waters they operate, according to a recent report from London-based global affairs think tank the ODI. The report, released Feb. 16, used consolidated fisheries and satellite data to gauge the economic damage done by fishing fleets with shady track records in five vulnerable countries: Ecuador, Ghana, Peru, the Philippines, and Senegal. It found that these companies’ fishing activities could be costing the five countries 0.26% of their combined GDP, leaving 30,174 people jobless and pushing 142,192 individuals deeper into poverty than they otherwise would be. “In this report, we wanted to make a business case for sustainable fishing to show that it is in developing countries’ economic interests to have robust sustainable fishing policies,” Miren Gutierrez, study author and a professor of communication at the University of Deusto in Spain, told Mongabay. “This is crucial because the health of the oceans and the sustainability of fish stocks are directly linked to the activities of real companies and the people behind them.” Senegalese sailors regard Chinese crew on a fishing vessel in Dakar in 2016. Image © Liu Yuyang / Greenpeace. Analyzing economic impacts The authors chose the focus countries based on their vulnerability to overfishing and IUU fishing, their geographic diversity, the diversity of their fishing sectors, and the “significant presence” of foreign vessels in their waters. To start with, Gutierrez’s team&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/fishing-by-dodgy-fleets-hurts-economies-jobs-in-developing-countries-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report shines partial light on worst labor offenders in opaque fishing industry</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/report-shines-partial-light-on-worst-labor-offenders-in-opaque-fishing-industry/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Nov 2023 21:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oceans]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Global, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Crime, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Forced labor, Governance, Illegal Fishing, Law Enforcement, Marine Animals, Marine Ecosystems, Oceans, Tuna, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent years, labor issues on industrial fishing vessels have received increased attention, commanding headlines in prominent media outlets. Terrible working and living conditions — even forced labor — are commonplace, especially on distant-water fleets that ply the high seas and the waters of foreign countries. And yet ship owners are rarely held to account. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent years, labor issues on industrial fishing vessels have received increased attention, commanding headlines in prominent media outlets. Terrible working and living conditions — even forced labor — are commonplace, especially on distant-water fleets that ply the high seas and the waters of foreign countries. And yet ship owners are rarely held to account. One reason? It’s hard to identify who they are. The industry is so opaque that it’s not possible to identify the beneficial owners — that is, the human beings who ultimately take in the profits — for the vast majority of vessels on which forced labor has been suspected, according to a new report from the Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC), a consortium of international NGOs. The FTC found cases of reported forced labor on 475 vessels since 2010, but could only identify the beneficial owners, or even an individual who represents them, for 20% of those vessels. Industrial actors regularly use shell companies and complex transnational joint venture structures that obscure vessels’ true ownership. “To me it’s like mining was back in the 1990s before any transparency initiatives,” Matti Kohonen, the FTC’s executive director and a co-author of the report, told Mongabay, referring to the fishing industry. At least 128,000 fishers are trapped in forced labor at sea, the International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN agency, estimates. The coercive practice takes many forms. The ILO’s indicators of forced labor include holding crew members’ identity documents, withholding wages, debt bondage, abusive conditions, violence, and intimidation. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/report-shines-partial-light-on-worst-labor-offenders-in-opaque-fishing-industry/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/as-companies-buy-plastic-credits-are-they-reducing-waste-or-greenwashing/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Oct 2023 14:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Charles Pekow]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Circular economy, Covering the Commons, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Global, and Senegal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Carbon Credits, Carbon Market, carbon markets, Carbon Offsets, Conservation, Consumption, Corporate Responsibility, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Marketing, Environmental Policy, Governance, Greenwashing, Industry, International Trade, Overconsumption, Plastic, Pollution, Recycling, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[With plastic pollution littering the planet, certification organizations are popping up to sell “plastic credits” to companies, allowing them to offset the plastic they make and use with equivalent plastic waste collected and reused. Critics are skeptical.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Pay someone to clean up a ton of plastic fouling the environment in a developing nation and get certified to create another ton. Then call yourself pollution neutral. This system of “plastic credits” is catching on globally, especially among corporations. Several organizations now sponsor a plastic credit certification process in Asia, the Pacific region, Africa and South America. But as of yet, no common standard or regulations govern the accuracy of the data on what is collected or how the collected material gets recycled and reused. In any event, critics note, the system only deals with the downstream issue of plastic already in the environment, and not the issue of the manufacture and use of plastic in the first place. With plastic production rising exponentially, from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to more than 400 million metric tons in 2020, and expected to double by 2040, it’s clear that plastic waste is increasing exponentially too, and credits by themselves can’t possibly keep up with the surge. Plastic credits: As of yet, no common standard or regulations govern the accuracy of the data on what is collected or how the collected waste gets recycled and reused. Image by mali maeder via Pexels (Public domain). “The plastic crisis is too large and imminent to be solved by a single solution or mechanism,” and credits are only part of the problem, according to Verra, a nonprofit that started in 2007 by creating verification systems for carbon credits, and more recently branched into&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/as-companies-buy-plastic-credits-are-they-reducing-waste-or-greenwashing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Senegal, rice intensification helps farmers grow more with less</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/in-senegal-rice-intensification-helps-farmers-grow-more-with-less/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2023 13:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Noah Tobias]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Senegal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Change And Food, Conservation, Environment, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Interns, Mongabay fellows and interns, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Saint Louis, northern Senegal, farmers have had to buy extra rice for as long as anyone can remember. “Normally, people can only live off the rice they grow for a few months,” according to Abdoulaye Sy, director at the government’s National Agricultural and Rural Advisory Agency (ANCAR). The rest of the time, people buy [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Saint Louis, northern Senegal, farmers have had to buy extra rice for as long as anyone can remember. “Normally, people can only live off the rice they grow for a few months,” according to Abdoulaye Sy, director at the government’s National Agricultural and Rural Advisory Agency (ANCAR). The rest of the time, people buy rice from wholesalers, hoisting 20-kilogram (44-pound) burlap sacks onto communal minibuses or horse-drawn carts for the long ride home. But since officials at ANCAR introduced a new method for growing rice, called the “system of rice intensification” (SRI), yields have more than doubled. For the first time, according to ANCAR, families can live off their own crop and make money from the surplus. “Our mission is to help farmers achieve stability,” Sy said. “But we have good luck, since there’s another benefit: SRI saves water and combats climate change, too.” Developed in Madagascar in the mid-1960s, SRI has been spreading across Africa for the past 20 years, driven by a group of enthusiastic advocates with international support. It’s increasingly seen by officials as a way to decrease methane emissions; alongside four other countries, Senegal committed to fund new SRI projects as “mitigation actions” in its 2020 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), its pledge under the Paris climate deal. In January 2023, after years of testing and pilot programs, the Sahara and Sahel Observatory, an intergovernmental collaboration that represents 13 West African states, launched a new project, extending SRI use to more than 150,000 farmers across West&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/in-senegal-rice-intensification-helps-farmers-grow-more-with-less/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Forests &#038; finance: Protection and restoration in Cameroon and Senegal, fire threat in Angola</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/forests-finance-protection-and-restoration-in-cameroon-and-senegal-fire-threat-in-angola/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Apr 2023 10:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Angola, Cameroon, North Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Community Forests, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[‘New world’ in Angola’s relic forests threatened by fires: scientists NAMBA MOUNTAINS, Angola — Remote pockets of species-rich afromontane forest in Angola’s Namba Mountains will be lost if nothing is done to stop uncontrolled fires that threaten to destroy them, scientists warn. These forests are believed to be relics from a time when the habitat [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[‘New world’ in Angola’s relic forests threatened by fires: scientists NAMBA MOUNTAINS, Angola — Remote pockets of species-rich afromontane forest in Angola’s Namba Mountains will be lost if nothing is done to stop uncontrolled fires that threaten to destroy them, scientists warn. These forests are believed to be relics from a time when the habitat was more widespreadduring the earth’s glacial cycles, the last of which ended 10,000-12,000 years ago, said Martim Melo, a researcher at the University of Porto’s Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources. Afromontane forests similar to those in the Namba range in the Cuanza Sul province of west-central Angola can also be found more than 2,000 kilometers away, on mountains in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, among others. The relic forests on Angola&#8217;s Namba Mountains are home to 90 bird species, including the threatened Swierstra&#8217;s francolin spurfowl. Scientists surveying the area recently discovered nine new animal species previously unknown to science. Image by Zieger M via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Nearly 90 different species of bird live in the Namba forests. These include a healthy population of the Swierstra’s francolin (Pternistis swierstrai), a partridge-sized bird with black and white plumage listed as endangered on the IUCN’s Red List of threatened species. Over an 11-day expedition to the forests last May, the scientists found at least nine animals new to science, including two rodents, three bats, two pygmy toads, a frog and a dragonfly. “There are new things&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/forests-finance-protection-and-restoration-in-cameroon-and-senegal-fire-threat-in-angola/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Senegal herders demand return of grazing grounds controlled by U.S. firm</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/senegal-herders-demand-return-of-grazing-grounds-controlled-by-u-s-firm/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Mar 2023 16:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agroecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Grabbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protected Areas]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Agroecology, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Industry and People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Politics, and Indigenous Peoples]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal — Every afternoon, Bouba Sow, 67, crosses the Ndiaël in Senegal’s Saint-Louis region with his goats so that they can graze. The territory is immense and partly desert. The land is covered with various yellowed annual grasses as dry as the ground. A few trees dot the area. Bouba Sow plucks the leaves [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal — Every afternoon, Bouba Sow, 67, crosses the Ndiaël in Senegal’s Saint-Louis region with his goats so that they can graze. The territory is immense and partly desert. The land is covered with various yellowed annual grasses as dry as the ground. A few trees dot the area. Bouba Sow plucks the leaves from an acacia tree with his shepherd&#8217;s stick to feed his goats, which are fond of them. Sow grew up here in the Ndiaël, a vast wetland, partially dry and classified as a special wildlife reserve and wetland of international importance for birdlife by a presidential decree and the Ramsar Convention back in the 1960s. And just like him, his father and grandfather used to graze their animals on this same land. His 15-year-old son is also starting to take care of the herd. But Sow says he worries about the future as he gazes over the land: &#8220;Their field starts right here in front of my house. Since they have our land, we can no longer graze our herds like before. Some corridors are closed and our water points are inaccessible.&#8221; Bouba Sow a pastoralist farmer from the Ndiaël region. Image by Élodie Toto / Mongabay “They” is the U.S. company African Agriculture (AAGR), which now owns the field where Sow grazes his herd and which plans to raise $40 million through an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock exchange to finance its operations. The Ndiaël is part of the wider Senegal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/senegal-herders-demand-return-of-grazing-grounds-controlled-by-u-s-firm/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/video-of-rare-west-african-lioness-plus-cubs-sparks-hope-for-the-population/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Mar 2023 19:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Lizkimbrough]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy-upbeat Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mammals]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Anti-poaching, Big Cats, Cats, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Habitat Destruction, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Lions, Mammals, National Parks, Poaching, Predators, Protected Areas, Saving Species From Extinction, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[New video of a West African lioness and her three cubs is exciting news for the conservation community, sparking hope for the slow recovery of a population perilously close to extinction in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park (NKNP). The lioness featured in the clips is known to researchers as Florence or “Flo.” She was the first [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[New video of a West African lioness and her three cubs is exciting news for the conservation community, sparking hope for the slow recovery of a population perilously close to extinction in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park (NKNP). The lioness featured in the clips is known to researchers as Florence or “Flo.” She was the first lion fitted with a tracking collar in Senegal by Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, and Senegal’s Department of National Parks (DPN). At around 10 years old, she’s considered NKNP’s matriarch. Scientists have been monitoring Flo for several years. So when her GPS collar stopped working, they were concerned she might have been killed by poachers or predators. The team placed camera traps near Flo’s last known location in an attempt to locate her. Photos and videos from the cameras later revealed that not only was Flo still alive, but that while denning in the dense forest, she had given birth to three healthy cubs. Smaller in size and genetically distinct from other lions, West African lions are considered critically endangered. Only an estimated 120 to 374 West African lions remain in the wild. Florence is the mother of an estimated nine cubs, including the first males in NKNP. &#8220;When the history of Niokolo Koba&#8217;s recovery is written, this moment will mark a turning point and Florence above all others will likely be recognized as the critical driver of West African lion recovery in one of this big cat&#8217;s last strongholds,&#8221; Panthera regional director&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/video-of-rare-west-african-lioness-plus-cubs-sparks-hope-for-the-population/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Win for science as BP pressured into cleaning up offshore gas plans</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/win-for-science-as-bp-pressured-into-cleaning-up-offshore-gas-plans/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Feb 2023 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elodietoto]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore extraction]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Oceans]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Mauritania, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Environmental Politics, Governance, Marine Conservation, Mongabay Data Studio, Oceans, Pollution, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[DAKAR — Scientists warning of a “potential ecological disaster” from gas drilling off West Africa have won a small victory after convincing U.K. oil major BP to review the project’s impact assessment. BP has already secured permission from the governments of Senegal and Mauritania to build offshore gas infrastructure for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DAKAR — Scientists warning of a “potential ecological disaster” from gas drilling off West Africa have won a small victory after convincing U.K. oil major BP to review the project’s impact assessment. BP has already secured permission from the governments of Senegal and Mauritania to build offshore gas infrastructure for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project, but scientists warned the activity would pierce the largest cold-water coral barrier in the world. After four years of petitioning BP to amend the project, the group of 10 marine biologists has finally gotten the company to commit to ad review of its environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA). &#8220;It was very long and tiring, but I&#8217;m glad we convinced BP to redo the analysis,” Sandra Kloff, an independent marine biologist based in Spain and spokesperson for the group, told Mongabay. Kloff has worked in the region for nearly 20 years, and in 2009 published a report on the impact of offshore extraction on the marine biology of Mauritania. “But we&#8217;ll see what happens, we still don&#8217;t know which recommendation BP will listen to,” she said. An impact assessment full of ‘nonsense’ It all began in 2018, when Senegal’s environment ministry called on the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Evaluation (CNEE), an environmental auditing organization, to conduct an independent review of the ESIA provided by BP. This original ESIA has been written by four different environmental consulting agencies. Kloff was part of the CNEE expert panel. “I saw a lot of flaws in the ESIA so&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/win-for-science-as-bp-pressured-into-cleaning-up-offshore-gas-plans/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Forests &#038; Finance: A road project, food baskets, and unique wildlife</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/forests-finance-a-road-project-food-baskets-and-unique-wildlife/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Oct 2022 20:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Senegal, Southern Africa, West Africa, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Community Forests, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[DAKAR — The construction of a highway linking the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to Saint Louis, the principal city in the north of the country, will encroach heavily on forest reserves, according to an environmental impact study. Researchers from Leadership, Equity, Governance and Strategy for Africa (LEGS-Africa), a civil society group working on overlapping political, economic, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DAKAR — The construction of a highway linking the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to Saint Louis, the principal city in the north of the country, will encroach heavily on forest reserves, according to an environmental impact study. Researchers from Leadership, Equity, Governance and Strategy for Africa (LEGS-Africa), a civil society group working on overlapping political, economic, and cultural issues, say the project poses a danger to the water table in several areas along its 200-kilometer (120-mile) route. The group says the road will also claim more than 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of farmland and 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) of residential land. Nearly 400,000 trees will be cut down in the Rao and Pire Goureye forest reserves, according to the environmental impact study. Communities that will be affected by the project held a general assembly at the end of September to condemn the approach adopted by the authorities and the amount of compensation they’ve been offered. &#8220;Socially, the project will lead to the disappearance of several villages in the Saint-Louis department. Economically, thousands of people will lose their places of work because the highway runs through them,&#8221; said Ousmane Ndiaye, spokesman for 1,300 affected families. &#8220;The project will certainly lead to a significant reduction of already limited local forest reserves in the affected areas concerned, so if it&#8217;s not possible to cancel it, the solution will be to reforest the areas with fast-growing tree species at the same time as construction,&#8221; said Mansour Ndiaye, president of the association Afrique Verte et Fertile&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/forests-finance-a-road-project-food-baskets-and-unique-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fished out at sea and smoked out on land, Senegal fishers take on a fishmeal factory</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/fished-out-at-sea-and-smoked-out-on-land-senegal-fishers-take-on-a-fishmeal-factory/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Oct 2022 16:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Lawon Olalekan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Environment, Fish, Fish Farming, Fisheries, Food, Food Crisis, food security, Governance, Human Rights, Law Enforcement, Ocean Crisis, Oceans, and Overfishing]]>
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							<![CDATA[DAKAR — A fishers’ collective called Taxawu Cayar has brought a case before the Senegalese courts to demand the closure of a fishmeal factory in the Grande Côte area, around 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the capital, Dakar. Since 2020, Touba Protéine Marine (TPM), previously known as Barna Sénégal, has processed dried fish into fishmeal, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DAKAR — A fishers’ collective called Taxawu Cayar has brought a case before the Senegalese courts to demand the closure of a fishmeal factory in the Grande Côte area, around 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the capital, Dakar. Since 2020, Touba Protéine Marine (TPM), previously known as Barna Sénégal, has processed dried fish into fishmeal, which is then sold as fertilizer or animal feed to customers in Europe and Asia. According to the Senegalese branch of the environmental NGO Greenpeace, it takes 5 kilograms of fish to produce 1 kilo of fishmeal. “Fishmeal factories like the one in Cayar deprive local populations of their fish and export it in the form of fishmeal and fish oil to Europe and Asia for animal feed,” says Aliou Ba, leader of Greenpeace Africa&#8217;s oceans campaign, which is supporting the collective&#8217;s lawsuit. According to Ba, fishmeal factories undermine the food security of millions of people in the Global South to the benefit of rich countries. TPM, he says, competes with local food markets, pushes fishers and vendors into bankruptcy, and deprives Senegalese households of regular access to affordable fish. For the leaders of the Taxawu Cayar collective, the opening of Touba Protéine Marine has provoked social unrest and health problems in the town.“There are between 300 and 400 women processing fish here,” says Mamadou Leye, Taxawu Cayar&#8217;s secretary. “Today most of them are lack the resources needed for their daily work.” He adds that many local inhabitants are increasingly suffering from respiratory diseases and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/fished-out-at-sea-and-smoked-out-on-land-senegal-fishers-take-on-a-fishmeal-factory/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Book Review: &#8216;Slaves for Peanuts&#8217; gets to the troubling roots of a beloved snack</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/book-review-slaves-for-peanuts-gets-to-the-troubling-roots-of-a-beloved-snack/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jun 2022 07:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Book Reviews, Books, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Journalism, Food, Forced labor, Governance, History, International Trade, Law, Slavery, Social Conflict, and Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[“How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?” journalist-turned-author Jori Lewis asks in the preface to her debut book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History. Lewis&#8217;s account of Senegal’s peanut trade in the second half of the 19th century is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?” journalist-turned-author Jori Lewis asks in the preface to her debut book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History. Lewis&#8217;s account of Senegal’s peanut trade in the second half of the 19th century is peopled with such stories, from a “negro” French evangelist to a defiant Senegalese chief. By tracing their life stories, Lewis creates a prism through which to view European colonial expansion in West Africa. The book illustrates how the commercial trade in peanuts took root after slavery officially ended by continuing to draw on the labor of unfree humans. Lewis also details how ascendant Western nations got hooked on this humble nut of the earth. Peanuts weren’t just food; peanut oil was lard and lubricant. The British railway, the backbone of the Industrial Revolution, required 13,000 tons of grease every year. French soap-makers were increasingly warming to the idea of substituting olive oil with peanut oil. This demand spurred a boom in peanut cultivation in Senegal. The West African nation has been one of the world&#8217;s leading peanut producers for more than a century, though it lags behind major exporters today. Cover of Jori Lewis’s “Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History,” which tells the stories of “people that history forgets and the present avoids.” Image courtesy of The New Press. Most of Senegal’s current peanut production occurs in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/book-review-slaves-for-peanuts-gets-to-the-troubling-roots-of-a-beloved-snack/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A tale of successes and new challenges in Senegal: Q&#038;A with ICCA coordinator Salatou Sambou</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/a-tales-of-successes-and-new-challenges-in-senegal-qa-with-icca-coordinator-salatou-sambou/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jun 2022 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Indigenous-led conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change And Food, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Freshwater Fish, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas, Rivers, and Wildlife Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Salatou Sambou, a fisherman and father of five, has been involved in the Kawawana ICCA (Indigenous and Community Conserved Area) in Senegal since 2008. One of the first members of the ICCA consortium, he is now their regional coordinator for marine and coastal ecosystems in West Africa. Thanks to the efforts of local fishermen and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Salatou Sambou, a fisherman and father of five, has been involved in the Kawawana ICCA (Indigenous and Community Conserved Area) in Senegal since 2008. One of the first members of the ICCA consortium, he is now their regional coordinator for marine and coastal ecosystems in West Africa. Thanks to the efforts of local fishermen and Jola communities in Lower Casamance, the consortium has been able to bring the Kawawana ICCA to life. Now, after becoming the first ICCA officially recognized by regional authorities in Senegal, Kawawana covers a coastal and maritime area of 9,665 hectares (23,882 acres) that are entirely governed, managed and maintained by local communities. Years of hard work has led to the return of wildlife to the Kawawana’s river and marine habitats, earning the project international recognition. The region’s brackish waters are home to a unique and fragile ecosystem that has been greatly threatened by human activity. Local fishermen decided to take action to protect their territory and life source, and have succeeded in striking a balance between their need for resources, and the need to protect wildlife. Since Mongabay’s last reporting on the conserved area in 2018, a number of achievements have been made – and a number of challenges are emerging. A fisherman catches a barracuda from the waters of the Casamance River at sunset, joined by an apprentice. Image by Jennifer O&#8217;Mahony for Mongabay. Today, the rivers of the ICCA have twice as many species of fish as they did 10 years ago, including&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/a-tales-of-successes-and-new-challenges-in-senegal-qa-with-icca-coordinator-salatou-sambou/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/small-farmers-take-a-stand-for-one-of-dakars-last-urban-woodlands/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Apr 2022 10:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Francesco De Augustinis]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Change And Conservation, Community Development, Community Forestry, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conflict, Crops, Development, Economy, Environment, Farming, Food, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Organic Farming, and Plantations]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the past decade, an association of small farmers has been growing vegetables amid a strip of filao trees that grow on the sand dunes along the coastline in the northern suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. Their presence provides both fresh vegetables to the city&#8217;s markets and helps guard the trees against sand miners and unlicensed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the past decade, an association of small farmers has been growing vegetables amid a strip of filao trees that grow on the sand dunes along the coastline in the northern suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. Their presence provides both fresh vegetables to the city&#8217;s markets and helps guard the trees against sand miners and unlicensed development. But in June 2021, a new urban plan rezoned 150 hectares (370 acres) of the wooded strip, clearing the way for local authorities to replace the trees with new development — threatening hundreds of livelihoods and accelerating the loss of one of the last green areas in the Senegalese capital. Farmers started planting along the edge of the filao strip in 2011, says Ousmane Sow, president of the Warouwaye farmers&#8217; association. “Since establishing ourselves in the strip, the farmers have expanded their activity. Today, we are 168 farmers growing vegetables for sale in the strip.” The farmers sell their organic produce in the city&#8217;s markets. Their association is a bulwark for the protection of the strip of trees, constantly threatened by the ocean, climate change and, above all, by the frenetic expansion of the city of Dakar. History of the strip Up to 80% of Senegal&#8217;s vegetables are grown in the niayes, low-lying areas in the dune systems that stretch 180 kilometers (110 miles) between Dakar and Saint-Louis. Beginning in the late 1940s, filao trees (Casuarina equisetifolia), a kind of pine native to Australia and the Pacific region, were planted to stabilize the dunes,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/small-farmers-take-a-stand-for-one-of-dakars-last-urban-woodlands/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/worked-to-death-how-a-chinese-tuna-juggernaut-crushed-its-indonesian-workers/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Sep 2021 10:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Annelise GiseburtBasten GokkonMakoto WatanabePhilip JacobsonSeulki LeeTaufik Wijaya]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Fisheries, Investigation, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Central Java, China, East Asia, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Pacific Ocean, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, South Korea, South Sumatra, Southeast Asia, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Crime, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Crime, Environmental Law, Environmental Politics, Featured, Fish, Fishing, Forced labor, Governance, Illegal Fishing, Law Enforcement, Mongabay investigation, Oceans, Poaching, Sharks, Tuna, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story won an Excellence in Investigative Reporting award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) in 2022. (Baca dalam Bahasa Indonesia &#124; 阅读中文版  &#124; 日本語で読む) When Sepri was growing up, life in his village began to deteriorate. In the 1990s, the village, Serdang Menang, in the south of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, was centered [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story won an Excellence in Investigative Reporting award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) in 2022. (Baca dalam Bahasa Indonesia | 阅读中文版  | 日本語で読む) When Sepri was growing up, life in his village began to deteriorate. In the 1990s, the village, Serdang Menang, in the south of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, was centered around fertile rice fields and rivers full of fish. But after a palm oil company drained and denuded the swampy landscape, flooding and wildfires became commonplace, damaging local livelihoods. Sepri’s father, a tenant farmer, found new work as a janitor at a police station. But when Sepri reached adulthood, he, like millions of others in the world’s fourth-most populous country, saw migration as his only chance to make a living. With only a middle-school education, Sepri tried his hand in Jakarta, the nation’s capital, but his salary at an aging shopping mall was barely enough to meet his basic needs. He returned home disheartened after a few years. Back in the village, he spent much of his time at a loose end, watching soccer at his sister Rika’s house. She worried about her little brother. Many young men with too much time on their hands had fallen prey to methamphetamine use. Police in the village had recently shot dead one local dealer and were openly threatening to kill others. Rika, who ran a food stall with her husband, urged Sepri to take an easy job, stay out of trouble and start a family. But Sepri&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/worked-to-death-how-a-chinese-tuna-juggernaut-crushed-its-indonesian-workers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In mangrove restoration, custom solutions beat one-size-fits-all approach</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-mangrove-restoration-bespoke-solutions-trump-one-size-fits-all-approach/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Oct 2020 16:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mark Hillsdon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, East Africa, Indonesia, Kenya, Senegal, Southeast Asia, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Biodiversity, Birds, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Featured, Fish, Forests, Global Warming, Global Warming Mitigation, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Habitat Destruction, Habitat Loss, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Mangroves, Reforestation, Reptiles, Restoration, Tigers, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The vast tangled mangrove forests that sweep along so many tropical coasts are one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. They also play crucial roles in protecting coastlines from erosion and providing communities with resources from food to firewood, and are one of our most effective carbon sinks. Yet they continue to be destroyed and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The vast tangled mangrove forests that sweep along so many tropical coasts are one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. They also play crucial roles in protecting coastlines from erosion and providing communities with resources from food to firewood, and are one of our most effective carbon sinks. Yet they continue to be destroyed and degraded. In their Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) for 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimated the loss of 1.04 million hectares (2.57 million acres) over the last 30 years. However, there is some cause for some optimism. According to figures from the FRA, the rate of global mangrove loss has more than halved over three decades, from 46,700 ha (115,400 acres) of loss per year between 1990 and 2000, to 21,200 ha (52,400 acres) per year between 2010 and 2020. However, not all regions have experienced a reduction in mangrove deforestation. The FRA found that in Asia, there has been a huge increase in mangrove loss: from 1,030 ha (2,550 acres) per year to 38,200 ha (94,400 acres) over the same 30-year period. Now conservationists hope that a process called community-based ecological mangrove restoration (CBEMR), which is proving far more successful at restoring these forests than previous well-intended but often ill-conceived efforts, will help turn the tide once and for all in the battle to save the mangrove. Spurred mangrove (Ceriops tagal) seedlings await planting at Watamu, Kenya. Image from Shutterstock via IUCN. Vanishing blue forests There are about&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-mangrove-restoration-bespoke-solutions-trump-one-size-fits-all-approach/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/though-forests-burn-agroforestry-advances-as-trees-retake-farmland-globally/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Aug 2020 12:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Patrick Worms]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global Agroforestry]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cote D'Ivoire, Global, Niger, Sahel, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroforestry, Analysis, Archive, Climate Change, Conservation Solutions, Dry Forests, Environment, Featured, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, and Reforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was late afternoon deep in the dry season in Fatikh, a village in the Sahel region of Senegal. Out on his farm, El Hadj Ndiaye, a distinguished gentleman in an elegant emerald-green boubou, was happily extolling the virtues of the young trees dotting his fields, when his mood suddenly darkened. His gaze had caught [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was late afternoon deep in the dry season in Fatikh, a village in the Sahel region of Senegal. Out on his farm, El Hadj Ndiaye, a distinguished gentleman in an elegant emerald-green boubou, was happily extolling the virtues of the young trees dotting his fields, when his mood suddenly darkened. His gaze had caught on a distant herd of cattle. More than a hundred huge-horned animals in dozens of tones of ocher, white and brown, already a lot thinner than they were at the end of the wet season, steadily drew nearer, foraging for whatever fodder was left on the fields. Soon, the target for Ndiaye’s anger became clear: it was Yack Diouf, the young Serer herder who was guiding his animals to the most promising spots with a few lazy taps of his switch. Ndiaye, it soon became clear, suspected Yack of being one of those who would try to cut down his trees later in the dry season, once the fodder is all gone. Their verdant, protein-rich foliage would then be a serious temptation to the young men tasked with feeding the livestock of a powerful owner. “Everyone wants to cut my trees,” he complained. “They say ‘you did not plant this tree, it grew by itself! It is not yours, it is God&#8217;s!’ Me and my sons must spend nights out here to protect them. And it’s not just the cattle, it’s also the women who covet them for firewood!” Exasperated, he muttered that he would&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/though-forests-burn-agroforestry-advances-as-trees-retake-farmland-globally/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>10-year plan hopes to give western chimpanzees a fighting chance</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/10-year-plan-hopes-to-give-western-chimpanzees-a-fighting-chance/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jul 2020 10:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jim Tan]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Chimpanzees, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Great Apes, Land Use Change, Mammals, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Western chimpanzees are the most threatened of the four confirmed chimpanzee subspecies. Conservationists estimate that populations of the western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes versus) declined by 80% between 1990 and 2014. Large tracts of chimpanzee habitat have already been lost, and much of what remains is in the crosshairs of agriculture, industry and infrastructure development. Adding [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Western chimpanzees are the most threatened of the four confirmed chimpanzee subspecies. Conservationists estimate that populations of the western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes versus) declined by 80% between 1990 and 2014. Large tracts of chimpanzee habitat have already been lost, and much of what remains is in the crosshairs of agriculture, industry and infrastructure development. Adding to the pressure, in their West African home, the subspecies shares its space with the world&#8217;s fastest-growing human population. Without immediate action, the IUCN warns the western chimpanzee may soon become extinct. The IUCN recently released its latest 10-year action plan, setting out nine key strategies to protect chimpanzees. On the agenda are improved legal protection, raising awareness, and more research into their distribution, genetics and behavior. The plan also highlights the need for chimpanzees to be considered at all levels of the land use planning process if they are to have a future in the rapidly developing West Africa region. “The western chimpanzee is in dire need of coordinated and effective conservation action right now,” said Erin Wessling, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Department of Human and Evolutionary Biology and lead editor of the IUCN plan. The western chimpanzee’s range extends across eight countries in West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierre Leone. The subspecies is already locally extinct in Benin, Burkino Faso and Togo. The western chimpanzee is the most threatened of the four known chimpanzee subspecies. Image courtesy of Liran Samuni/Tai Chimpanzee Project. Fighting for space The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/10-year-plan-hopes-to-give-western-chimpanzees-a-fighting-chance/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Global fisheries deprive local communities of key nutrients, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/global-fisheries-deprive-local-communities-of-key-nutrients-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Sep 2019 04:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Stephen Leahy]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sea Change]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Senegal, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Environment, Fish, Fish Farming, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Illegal Fishing, Overfishing, Research, Saltwater Fish, and Sustainability]]>
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							<![CDATA[2019FB]]>
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							<![CDATA[Millions of people around the world suffer from malnutrition despite the ready availability of essential nutrients just off their coastlines. Dietary deficiencies in iron, calcium and other micronutrients are responsible for more than a million premature deaths every year. New research published in Nature confirms there is a wealth of these micronutrients in local fish [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Millions of people around the world suffer from malnutrition despite the ready availability of essential nutrients just off their coastlines. Dietary deficiencies in iron, calcium and other micronutrients are responsible for more than a million premature deaths every year. New research published in Nature confirms there is a wealth of these micronutrients in local fish – if only local people could afford them. Discussions around food security and public health often leave out the important role of fish, particularly in low-income countries, said the study&#8217;s lead author, Christina Hicks, an environmental social scientist at the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom. If the fish already being caught were “accessible locally, they could have a huge impact on global food security and combat malnutrition-related disease in millions of people,” she told Mongabay. A 2019 Greenpeace report said West Africans were losing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of edible fish to fishmeal and fish oil exports and called for an immediate phase out of the industry. Fish are an important source of many vitamins, minerals and fatty acids that are often missing from the diets of poor populations throughout the world, said Andrew Thorne-Lyman, a nutritionist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States and a co-author of the study. There is an enormous diversity of fish in the oceans, with a wide range of nutritional characteristics. “What’s most exciting about our study was being able to show [that] where a fish lives determines those characteristics,” he&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/global-fisheries-deprive-local-communities-of-key-nutrients-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Deadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/deadly-parrot-virus-found-in-native-birds-from-asia-and-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Dec 2018 05:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Erin I. Garcia de Jesus]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Wild Bird Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bangladesh, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Seychelles, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Infectious Wildlife Disease, Invasive Species, Pet Trade, Pets, UCSC, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Parrots around the globe are captured and sold as pets in a thriving illegal market that has carried more than 19 million birds across borders since 1975. The deadly beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) – which destroys parrot immune systems and causes feather loss and beak defects – can spread worldwide through this lucrative [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Parrots around the globe are captured and sold as pets in a thriving illegal market that has carried more than 19 million birds across borders since 1975. The deadly beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) – which destroys parrot immune systems and causes feather loss and beak defects – can spread worldwide through this lucrative pet trade. Now, a recent study published in Conservation Biology has documented BFDV in eight new countries in Asia and Africa. The discovery points to grave risks for native species if infected captives escape, especially in isolated populations, researchers say. BFDV infects captive parrots worldwide and spreads easily among species. However, scientists had a poor grasp of its prevalence in wild populations. Previous studies mostly screened parrots in South Africa, the U.S., or Australia. Other regions with parrots, such as Africa, Asia, and South America, have not received the same scrutiny. “There is definitely a risk of spillover of BFVD from captive birds into wild populations,” said conservation biologist Deborah Fogell of the University of Kent, U.K., lead author of the study. &#8220;A single infected individual that is accidentally or intentionally released can pose a threat.&#8221; BFDV-infected Timneh Grey parrots seized from the parrot trade in Senegal. Photo courtesy of Roman Martin/World Parrot Trust To help assess the spread of BFDV, Fogell and her colleagues collected blood, feather, and tissue samples from wild and captive parrots in 13 countries. They sampled five species, including the invasive Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri), and searched for a telltale&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/deadly-parrot-virus-found-in-native-birds-from-asia-and-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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