Poaching forces Unesco to flag Selous as endangered

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UNESCO Lists Tanzanian Reserve among Endangered Heritage Sites
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U.N. cultural body UNESCO on Wednesday put the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania on the list of endangered World Heritage sites because of widespread poaching. The animal population at the 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles) park had ...
Poaching puts Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve on List of World Heritage in ...UNESCO.org (press release)

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>Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Lazaro Nyalandu has announced success in fighting poaching as the country has recorded zero elephant killing in the Selous Game Reserve in the past three months.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has pledged to work closely with the government and the UN cultural body UNESCO, in minimising ecological threats facing the Selous Game Reserve.

The Wildlife Conservation Foundation of Tanzania (WCFT) yesterday donated three Land Cruisers worth Sh354,019,602 to the Wildlife Department for anti-poaching activities and wildlife conservation in the Selous Game Reserve.

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The endangered incisors of the elephant
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This Dental formula in an adult person is CI1, LI 1, C1, PM2, and M3. This implies that in each half of the upper and lower jaws there are two incisors - one central and one lateral, one canine, two premolars and three molars. For a child with only milk teeth ...

>It always astounds me when I hear politicians using the same worn-out tactics to address an almost perennial situation. I am talking of the problem of over-fishing, use of dynamites, poison and nets with very small ‘eyes’.

David Shukman goes inside the Madagascan breeding and conservation programme for the endangered ploughshare tortoise.

Turtles emerge from a small crater in the sand, pausing briefly to sense their surroundings before dashing to the ocean in a fight for survival.

Zoo keepers from around the world are due to meet next month to discuss ways to save the endangered northern white rhino.