The latest environmental news from Africa, brought to you by UNEP/GRID-Arendal.http://www.earthwire.org/africa The first vaccine for a fatal cattle disease is starting field trials in East Africa — and is given via the nose, not by bloodstream injection. http://www.scidev.net/en/sub-suharan-africa/cattle-fever-dealt-a-blow-on-the-nose.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_subsuharanafrica http://www.scidev.net/en/sub-suharan-africa/cattle-fever-dealt-a-blow-on-the-nose.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_subsuharanafrica 2010-03-15T00:00:00-00:00 SCIDEV.NET Mining companies must be blocked from extracting minerals from Ghana's few remaining forest preserves, said the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson. AB http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23143 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23143 2010-03-13T00:00:00-00:00 AfricaFiles In theory, burning or 'flaring? the waste gas produced when oil is pumped from a well was supposed to stop in Nigeria in 1984, but oil companies have been granted exemptions year after year, allowing them to continue the practice. The Un now has a proposal to use this gas. The project will process hitherto flared gas to generate electricity and the carbon credits earned by cutting greenhouse gas emissions will be sold abroad. AB http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23144 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23144 2010-03-13T00:00:00-00:00 AfricaFiles Climate change is not a new phenomenon. For hundreds of millions of years, the earth's climate has been changing regularly, sometimes getting colder and sometimes warmer. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003120403.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003120403.html 2010-03-12T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Climate change and inputs shortages require innovative interventions such as conservation farming, Midlands Governor Jaison Machaya has said. The objective is to achieve food security at household level. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003120185.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003120185.html 2010-03-12T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Members of the Mozambican government visiting the Zambezi valley have urged people still living in flood prone areas to leave them, and return to the resettlement areas that were set up after the Zambezi floods of 2007 and 2008. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003121069.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003121069.html 2010-03-12T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com A weed that multiplies fast has invaded Pader district and is suspected to be in other parts of northern Uganda. The weed known as parthenium hysterophorus is fast multiplying in areas with internally displaced people's camps. It is said to cause bronchitis and asthma. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003120123.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003120123.html 2010-03-12T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The president and CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council, Jean Claude Baumgarten, explains for eTurboNews how his organization is involved in the fight against global warming and sustainable development. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003111099.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003111099.html 2010-03-11T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com MOST South African companies do not feel that efforts by the government are effective in encouraging them to significantly change their environmental behaviour, according to a report issued recently by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). http://allafrica.com/stories/201003110607.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003110607.html 2010-03-11T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, (NESREA) has taken its environmental awareness campaign to various primary and secondary schools within the Federal Capital Territory. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003110527.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003110527.html 2010-03-11T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com THE speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji has stressed the need for a sustainable clean and healthy environment as a crucial vehicle in attaining economic development. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003110476.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003110476.html 2010-03-11T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com "Empty" increasingly describes the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, are emptying. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100890.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100890.html 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com At least 10,000 people in Kenya have been displaced by flooding, mainly in the north, which has prompted fears of an outbreak of waterborne diseases. Hundreds of heads of livestock have drowned or gone missing and dozens of houses and business stalls are submerged. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100888.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100888.html 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don't have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100562.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100562.html 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Worsening floods in central Mozambique led the Mozambican government to declare a red alert on Tuesday in the basins of the Zambezi, Pungue, Buzi, and Licungo livers. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100931.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100931.html 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The Minister of Water and Environmental affairs says proposed fishing permit fee increases will not increase illegal fishing nor affect competition and employment in sectors within the fishing industry. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100904.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003100904.html 2010-03-10T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com HOW ironic. For years, the World Bank wants to lend SA money for development but SA keeps saying no. When it finally turns around and says yes, a couple of rich countries jump in to try and prevent the loan on the grounds, essentially, that SA isn't "first world" enough when it comes to clean air standards. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090467.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090467.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com President Museveni last week described the landslide in Bududa as a great tragedy that should make the country rethink the practices that interfere with God's natural engineering. "seek better ways for a healthy co-existence between man and nature". http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090657.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090657.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com A technical committee comprising of members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, ministry of Environment and Ecological Fund Office was yesterday set up to find ways of tackling the immense environmental challenges facing the country. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090705.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090705.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The Delta Government has restated its resolve to get major oil companies operating in the state to stop gas flaring in 15 months time. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090702.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090702.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com