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12/29/98--Tanzanian President Says Plant Trees to Save Forests

12/28/98--Illegal Forest Allottees in Kipiripiri Take Cover

12/23/98--Ethiopia Calls for Law to Protect Natural Resource

12/22/98--Japan Set to Import African Ivory

12/21/98--Zimbabwe Forest Commission to Do Forestry Feasibility Studies

12/15/98--African Ivory Ban May Bend, but Nobody's Buying

12/10/98--Bricklayer Sells Africa's Tip for Conservation Park

11/30/98--Africa Remains Upbeat on Protection of the Environment

11/24/98--Children Travel to Kenya to Protect Endangered Species

11/23/98--Asian Crisis Brings Turmoil to Gabon's Timber Industry

11/20/98--Law Firm Boss Quits Over Kenyan Karura Forest Allocations

10/30/98--Fighting in The Congo Force Mountain Gorilla's into the Crossfire

10/29/98--Lotodo Denies Knowledge of Mt Kenya Forest Trees Destruction

10/28/98--U.N. Joins the Campaign against Land Grabbers in Kenya

10/26/98--Kenyans Fight for their Forests

10/23/98--US Ambassador Denies Claims of Kenyan Forestland Acquisition

10/22/98--UNEP Chief Warns of Repercussions of Loss of Kenyan Forest

10/18/98--Kenyan Riot Police Prevent Conservationists from Planting Trees

10/15/98--Chad Says no Plan to Reroute Oil Pipeline to Libya

10/7/98--Environmentalists ask World Bank to Stop African Oil Pipeline

10/5/98--Struggle to Save Karura Forest in Kenya has been Stiff

10/5/98--Mauritania Conserves Forests to Prevent Desert Encroachment

10/1/98--East and Southern African's Medicinal Animals and Plants Threatened

9/20/98--Mountain Gorillas in Uganda Thrive Despite Perils

9/18/98--Two Rare Mountain Gorillas Killed in Congo

9/17/98--World Bank Plans Talks on Chad Oil Pipeline

9/15/98--Help Stop World Bank's Loan to Exxon

9/1/98--Rainforest Action Network Launches Campaign to Monitor African Rainforests

8/21/98--New Robin Species Found in Africa in the Central African Republic

8/19/98--Africa's Rhinos Slowly Growing in Numbers

8/19/98--Africa's Black and White Rhinos Making a Comeback after Decline

8/1/98--Park Officials Say Kenya Game Park Fires Extinguished

7/18/98--Ghana-Forests Rawlings Launches National Forestry Week

7/8/98--Elephant Poaching in Kenya Increasing

7/8/98--Consumers Urged to Buy 'Good Wood' Carvings from Kenya

6/25/98--South Africa Lures Tourists on Ivory Trade Route

6/18/98--Desertification Still A Problem in Africa

6/4/98--Arrest In Connection with Chad/Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project

6/4/98--Namibian Government Bans Commercial Wildlife Exports

6/2/98--Cameroon's Wildlife Victims of Bush Meat Trade

5/17/98--Ethiopian Plant Might Be a Key for Surviving Famine

5/10/98--Rhino Numbers Up but There are Still Too Few

5/7/98--Preventable Diseases Still Rampant Due to Poor Environment

4/8/98--Asian Economic Crisis Upsets African Timber Trade

4/24/98--Mozambique Plans Rebirth of Wildlife Reserve

4/13/98--South Africa Is Trying to Protect its Endangered Cycads

4/2/98--Conservation in Central Africa, Bushmeat Crisis

3/31/98--After Safari, Clinton Vows Environment Push

3/24/98--UN Moves To Combat Encroachment by the Desert

3/23/98--Land Claim in Kruger National Park Settled

3/16/98--Pygmy Peoples in Congo-Kinshasa in Peril

3/13/98--Prostate Medical Demand Strips Curative Trees

2/26/98--European Logging Firms Fuel Trade in Ape Meat

2/22/98--Kabila's Congo Battles Poachers of White Rhino

2/20/98--Kabila to Save Environment in Congo

2/17/98--Kabila Pledges to Save Environment in The Democratic Republic of Congo

2/14/98--Bonobos Use Symbols to Mark Jungle Trails

2/11/98--Ivorian Timber Firms Fret over Tax and Asia

2/5/98--Taxpayer Dollars Underwrite Deforestation in Africa

2/2/98--Destructive Activities Threaten Gabon's Mangrove Swamps

1/30/98--Tanzanian Government Urged to Protect Old Forest

1/12/98--Chimps Threatened by Illegal Hunting

12/15/97--Logging Opens New Threats to Chimpanzees

12/14/97--Conservationists Urge World to Help Protect Gorillas

12/14/97--The United Arab Emirates Releases 169 Gazelles into the Wild

12/13/97--Renowned Primate Researcher Jane Goodall in Her Prime

12/13/97--U.S. Businessman to Carve out Huge Game Park in Mozambique

12/11/97--Apes, Chimpanzees Being Hunted for Meat in West Africa

12/9/97--Kinshasa Zoo, Once Pride of Africa, Could Disappear

12/8/97--Uganda has a New Census for Mountain Gorillas

12/7/97--Last Knysna Elephant Trumpets the Alarm in South Africa

12/4/97--Cash Crisis Threatens Kenyan Wildlife

12/1/97--New Census for Mountain Gorillas in Uganda's Impenetrable Forest

12/1/97--Lemurs Go back to the Wild

11/28/97--Forest Council Takes Action on Gabon's Forests

11/26/97--Data Base to Put Gabon's Forest in Cyberspace

11/21/97--Chimpanzees, Gorillas, and Orangutans Fighting for Survival

11/14/97--Mozambique's Timber Attracts South Africans

11/4/97--Ecotourism Taking Root in Kenya

10/24/97--Chad/Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project

10/15/97--Madagascar's Forest is protected for Humans and Unique Wildlife

10/13/97--Gabon Update: FSC Withdraws Certification of Large African Old-Growth

10/10/97--The Merits of Certified Forestry: Good Intentions Betray Gabon, African Rainforest

10/2/97--War-torn Congo Gorilla Park Re-opens

10/2/97--Fears of Ivory Poaching Climb after 5 Elephants Killed

9/18/97--Sustainable Forest Management Project: Mozambique

9/5/97--Ipassa Mingouli Project

8/3/97--Cameroon: Loggers Force Pygmies off Land

8/2/97--Urgent Action Needed to Save Congo's Ecosystem

7/25/97--New Congo In Great Need Of Help To Save Endangered Species

7/23/97--Cocoa/Coffee Farmers Evicted from Ivorian Forests

7/21/97--Animal Group Says Nigeria Centre of Illegal Trade

7/21/97--South Africa 1st for Community Conservation

7/20/97--New Health Scourge Emerges from African Rainforest

6/19/97--Global Ban in Ivory Trade Eased for African States

6/19/97--Conservationist Says Trade in Ivory Dangerous

6/19/97--World Forum Votes for African Ivory Trade

6/19/97--Ivory Trade Made Legal - for Some

6/18/97--``Experimental'' Trade in African Ivory Recommended

6/16/97--Zimbabwe says it may defy world ivory trade ban

6/11/97--Zimbabwe Hits Out Against Environment Campaigners

6/10/97--Rare Mountain Gorillas Die in New Congo Fighting

6/4/97--South Africa Backs Ivory Trade

6/1/97--Sign-on Letter to Help Influence International Policy on the Ivory Trade

5/27/97--One Man's Lonely Battle to Save the Mangrove

5/11/97--Ivory Coast Laments Lost Forest

4/28/97--Billionaire Getty Takes Aim at Wealthy Ecotourists in Big-Game Hunt

4/23/97--Last Flutter for S.Africa's Rare Brenton Blue

4/20/97--Man and Elephant in Battle Over Habitat

4/21/97--Elephants Doomed if Ivory Trade Restarts

4/10/97--Great Apes Face Growing Threat of Extinction

4/8/97--Eco-warrior battling to keep Gabon rain forest safe

4/1/97--Baby Gorilla Sales Point to Larger Conservation Issue

3/31/97--Advisory Group Inspects War Zone Rainforest

3/31/97--Logging Threatens Biodiversity in Liberia's Transition Period

3/30/97--Onshore Oil Drilling in Nigeria Makes Shell Target

3/28/97--Policies to Favor Cattle Ranching Will Result in catastrophe in Botswana

3/26/97--French Timber Company Seeks Ecological Niche in Africa

3/21/97--Southern Africa Fights Ban on Ivory Trade

3/20/97--"Alarm Bell" for African Forests

3/18/97--Elephants Survive on the Kindness of Strangers

3/18/97--High Demand for Bark Puts Bite on African 'Medicine Tree"

3/17/97--The World Bank and Chad and Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project

3/8/97--Ivory Coast Bans Trade in Ivory Tusks

3/6/97--Dubai-Based Dolphin Scales Down S.Africa Parks Deal

2/25/97--Conserving Cameroon's Natural Resources

2/21/97--Gorillas are Endangered Prey in Central African Forests

2/15/97--Gore Praises South African Wildlife Partnerships

1/27/97--Nature Body Says Zaire Wildlife Threatened by War

1/21/97--World Bank, Big Oil and the Niger Delta

1/20/97--Debating the Future of Central Africa's Rainforest

1/18/97--Lost Forests Leave West Africa Dry

1/9/97--Ogoni: The Struggle Continues

1/6/97--Nigeria's Military Regime: Oppression & Environmental Devastation

1/1/97--International Women Organize Against Agribusiness and Environmental Degradation

12/26/96--Global Pact Against Deserts Goes Into Force

12/21/96--Preserving Biodiversity, Generating Jobs, in Southern Africa

12/3/96--Why I Was Banned from a Congo Rain Forest

12/1/96--Elephants on Collision Course with People

11/4/96--Conservationists Propose Horn Trade to Cut Rhino Poaching

10/24/96--Reduction in West Africa's Rainforests

10/3/96--Realization That South Africa's Bush Fire Good for Nature

9/24/96--Death Warrant for Nigeria's Lowland Rainforests

9/14/96--Ivory Coast Pledges to Save Dwindling Rain Forest

9/12/96--Zaire Says Refugees Threaten Ecological Crisis

9/10/96--Transnational Loggers Threaten Africa's Forests

9/3/96--Concern about World Bank Policy in Central African Rainforest

8/30/96--Ivory Coast Acts to Curb Illegal Timber Felling

8/13/96--Forest Plunder Shifts to Central Africa

7/10/96--Nigerian Greens Fight Hong Kong Loggers

5/22/96--Skepticism of Shell Plan for Ogoni

5/1/96--Conflict Between Man and Elephant in Cameroon

4/15/96--Former Foes Unite to Restore Mozambique Park

4/8/96--Greens Seek to Resurrect Angolan Game Reserve

4/4/96--Africa's Last Intact Belt of Rainforest Threatened

3/15/96--Poachers Kill Rare White Rhino in Zairean Park

2/14/96--Sudan's War Threatens Zaire Wildlife with Extinction

2/12/96--Shell Admits Arming Nigerian Police

1/29/96--Mozambique and Madagascar Development Plans

1/26/96--Nigeria Boycott Urged

1/5/96--Rwanda National Parks Dying

1/1/96--Nigerian Papers Name Saro-Wiwa Man of the Year

1/96--South Africa Studies Wildlife Destruction Charges

1/96--Metro Toronto Council Says No to Nigerian Oil

1/96--South African Apartheid Army Smuggled Ivory, Rhino Horn

1/96--Aliya/Stories of The E1ephants of Sri Lanka

1/96--Trees vs Tourists in Fight to Develop Mozambique

1/96--Bay Watch Protects South Africa's Turtles

12/95--Greenpeace Urges Nigerian Oil Embargo

11/95--Greenpeace Calls for End to Nigerian Oil Imports

11/95--Shell Goes Ahead With Nigerian Gas Project

11/95--Calls for Ken Saro-Wiwa's Release & World Bank Loan Cancellation

11/95--Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 Ogoni People Executed

11/95--Call for Boycott Of Nigerian Oil; Shell Must Pull Out

11/95--World Bank May Finance Shell in Nigeria

11/95--Call on Shell to Condemn Nigerian Sentences

11/95--Remember Saro-Wiwa: Embargo Nigeria's Oil and Boycott Shell

10/95--Zimbabwe Wildlife Program in Disarray

9/95--German Company Destroys Congolese Forests

7/95--Timber Certification & Species Extinction

6/95--Another Species Extinct? Slender-Billed Curlew Needs Help

6/95--Pivotal Agreement on Conserving Migratory Waterbirds Adopted

4/95--Kaplan/Cockburn on the Coming Anarchy

4/95--Endangered Gorillas in Africa

10/94--Saving Gorillas

9/94--African Wildlife Accord Signed

3/94--UNEP African Wildlife Meeting for Wildlife Task Force

3/94--Negotiations to Fight International Wildlife Crime

3/93-- Greenbelt Movement Founder in Hiding

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