Environment & Climate Change
HumAngle’s Climate Desk researches, evaluates information about climate change, its characteristics, causes and impacts, and ways to mitigate it.
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80% Of Farmers In The North Can’t Go To Farms, Nigeria Risks Famine – Lawmaker
Rep. Gudaji Kazaure, a member of the House of Representative from Jigawa State has accused the security services of not…
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Desertification: Borno State To Begin First Phase of ‘10 Million Trees’ Project
The Borno State Government intends to raise and plant 10 million seedlings in two years to address desertification and deforestation…
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GREENPEACE Calls On Cameroon To Reject Appeal For Tax Reduction By Timber Exploiters
The international environmental defense non-govermental organisation, Greenpeace, has called on the Cameroonian government not to accept appeals by the country’s…
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FG Prepares To Check Possible Locust Invasion In Northern Nigeria
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned of locust invasion in West Africa from East Africa starting from…
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Forestry Exploiters Demand Suspension Of 2nd And 3rd Quarter Royalty Payment Over COVID-19
The current COVID-19 pandemic has hit at the heart of the forestry exploitation establishment in Cameroon leading to the sacking…
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Cameroon and DR Congo Mull Legalising Artisanal Lumbering To Curb Deforestation
The artisanal sawing and treatment of timber in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo would be formalised, modernised and…
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As Government Defaults On Farmers’ Compensation, Elephants In Cameroon’s Park Are Threatened
In January, 2012, reports emerged in the international media and by wildlife protection organisations that 400 elephants were slaughtered in…
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Lake Chad: 3 Endangered Savannah Elephants Killed In Nigeria – Cameroon Border Community
At least three elephants belonging to a herd of 300 savannah elephants were killed on May 16, 2020, in Kala…
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How Sierra Leonean Sand Miners Are Challenging the Sea to a Duel
Among the Pidgin English speaking urban communities of West African there is a saying that serves as a warning against…
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Outrage As Gabon Ships Biggest Ever Timber To China
At a time when conservationists have been shouting against the indiscriminate destruction of African forests, especially by Chinese timber exploitation…
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