The first of forty elephants have been herded into the giant 7,5-million acre reserve, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, which spans South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

West African forest conservation won support today from the President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, the Ivory Coast.

There may be no environmental network on U.S. television, but there is a network of environmentalists making extraordinary television, video, and film. This kind of media isn't trying to sell you anything other than a voice in the debate about the future of the planet. It is produced for the express purpose of getting you off the sofa and into the political process by clamoring for a cleaner planet. And it is working.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that intensive land cultivation methods using tractors and ploughs are a major cause of severe soil loss and land degradation in many developing countries.

Serious floods are likely to occur between October and November this year in southern Somalia.

Countries could get more fish from the oceans if they allow overfished stocks to recuperate, reduce wastage and manage fisheries resources better, said FAO Director-General, Dr. Jacques Diouf, in Reykjavik (Iceland) today.

Friends of the Earth International today criticised the Governments of Europe and North America for putting trade priorities above people and the planet in their plans for next year's Earth Summit.

Two people have died and 2,350 others have been affected by floods in Mali that have destroyed 1,817 houses and washed away 870 ha of farmland, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Tuesday.

Most former British colonies are characterised by glaring land inequalities. Such sad status was part of the agenda during the recent UN conference against racism and related intolerances.

Support for an international effort to save the Earth's remaining great apes was pledged Tuesday by the government of the United Kingdom in a move welcomed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Governments of Europe and North America meeting yesterday to plan the agenda
for next year's United Nations Earth Summit in Johannesburg agreed they will
not go beyond pledges made at the last Earth Summit in 1992.

Environment and Tourism Permanent Secretary Tangeni Erkana has resigned from his post in unclear circumstances.

Two areas in the Kunene region at Puros and Ehirovipuka have been earmarked by the government for conservation. Five percent of the country's land now falls under government conservation efforts.

Namibia will introduce a land tax on commercial farmland to augment government's efforts in developing the neglected communal areas as well as to acquire more commercial land for resettlement purposes.

Mining Watch Canada and the NGO Working Group on the Export Development Corporation join with environmental and human rights groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Tanzania to call for an independent investigation into allegations of mass killings and forced relocation of small scale miners at the Bulyanhulu gold mine in Tanzania in 1996.

Talks between white farmers and the Zimbabwean government over land seizures and lawlessness on farms collapsed in deadlock last week.

It is the forces of poverty, environmental degradation and hatred that give birth to the intolerance that can lead to fundamentalism and terrorist acts, Klaus Toepfer said today.

As pressure mounts on Zimbabwe to restore the rule of law on white farms, the government is seeking a Supreme Court ruling to endorse the controversial land reform programme.

Heavy rains in Guinea have left at least five people dead and 30,000 homeless in the worst floods for many years.