Kenya Wants Most-Protected Status for Lions
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Even the King of Beasts needs a hand staying alive in his own domain.
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"All our clients are all right and holidays are carrying on as normal but we thought it best to cancel some local excursions. This does not affect the main safari trips which are operating OK."  Britons in Kenya have spoken of fears for their safety as the death toll in the post-election riots escalated. via Ananova
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Wagari Maathai, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, has long fought&#151;and sometimes suffered&#151;to protect the environment and human rights in Africa. A journalist recalls an encounter with the Kenyan 13 years ago.
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A UN meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity&#39;s closest living relatives, the orang-utan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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The government tightened security around Kenya's parliament Tuesday for its first session since a disputed presidential election
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African leaders agreed bold plans at the weekend to preserve the world's second biggest rainforest area but Kenya's Nobel prize-winning environmentalist told them they would need to root out corruption to succeed.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- UN Security Council diplomats appealed to Rwanda for restraint yesterday after President Paul Kagame threatened to renew central Africa's deadliest conflict, saying his country was coming under attack from militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Africa cannot thrive unless Kenya does, so Africans must make solving its crisis a priority, the head of the African Union told the continent's leaders Â among them the Kenyan president Â at Thursday's opening of a three-day summit.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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By ARTHUR MAX  THE HAGUE, Netherlands - If you think the problem of endangered species is all about tigers, elephants and orangutans, ask a violinist where he gets his bow.
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5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.
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Some of the world's most prominent diplomats are in Kenya trying to prevent an all-out ethnic war from plunging east Africa's most important economy into chaos
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Great white sharks are among many endangered species to gain better international protection at a meeting of 166 countries in Thailand. Restrictions on black rhinos were eased.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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The State Department issued a reminder Monday that ongoing terrorist threats in Kenya present a safety and security risk for American citizens in the area.
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South Africa's government announced restrictions Tuesday on the hunting of lions born and raised in captivity, overriding protests by breeders who warn they could face financial ruin and be forced to euthanize their animals.
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By LES NEUHAUS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion - so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them inside a fenced garden.