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By Beth Allgood / John Waugh / Craig Talmage Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter ...
In East Africa, a lack of border controls and widespread fraud facilitate the illegal timber trade, which has become ...
Congo launched a 30,000-ton oil plant with Eni to supply Italy’s biofuel production. The project will support 80,000 hectares of local crop development and livestock feed. Congo remains a raw material ...
Tiger returns to forest after attacking livestock TNN / Jun 22, 2025, 23:20 IST AA ...
By Sean Lawrence West Virginia University When you think about ticks, you might picture nightmarish little parasites, stalking you on weekend hikes or afternoons in the park. Your fear is well-founded ...
As a juvenile, or nymph, these ticks feed on small forest animals such as mice, hares and voles, but as an adult they prefer domesticated livestock. For centuries ... including a virus that causes ...
Baghdad: Iraq said Thursday it has recorded 19 deaths from Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever already this year and urged farmers and abattoir workers to step up precautions when handling livestock ...
Neighbouring Bolivia's forest loss 1.5 million hectares - skyrocketed by 200% last year, with a record 3.6% of primary forests destroyed in a single year, mostly due to fires set to clear land for ...
The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary roads also varied greatly across regions. In the Congo Basin, deforestation associated with secondary roads was 31.5 times ...
In Loliondo, Oleshangay said, the government has seized and confiscated more than 58,000 livestock, including 36,000 between January 2023 and April 2024 — a blow to families' finances.
An aerial view of a forest in DRC. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) In a similar vein, the Democratic Republic of Congo recently signed a ground-breaking agreement with Chinese climate-tech company ...