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News Mozambique » Niassa » Culture: Mozambique Protects Lake Niassa’s Wealth of Species

News channel or source: https://ens-newswire.com/mozambique-protects-lake-niassas-wealth-of-species/

Published on: Sunday 12 June 2011

GLAND, Switzerland, June 12, 2011 (ENS) – The Mozambique government Friday declared Lake Niassa to be a reserve, safeguarding the species and natural habitats of one of the world’s largest and the ...

News Mozambique » Niassa » Culture: Niassa was a conservation paradise. Then ISIS attacked.

News channel or source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/niassa-reserve-mozambique-terror-attack-islamic-state

Published on: Tuesday 03 June 2025

Niassa was established as a hunting reserve in 1954 when Mozambique was still under Portuguese colonial control. It was transformed into a protected area in 1999, after years of civil war. More remote ...

News Mozambique » Niassa » Culture: Top African wildlife preserve celebrates full year with no elephant poaching

News channel or source: https://abc7.com/post/top-wildlife-preserve-celebrates-full-year-with-no-elephant-poaching/5348163/

Published on: Friday 14 June 2019

JOHANNESBURG -- One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than ...

News Mozambique » Niassa » Culture: After terror attacks, Mozambique nature reserve faces ‘new reality’

News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/after-terror-attacks-mozambique-nature-reserve-faces-new-reality/

Published on: Sunday 01 June 2025

On April 29, ISIS-affiliated insurgent fighters attacked a conservation outpost inside Niassa Special Reserve in northern Mozambique. The attack claimed the lives of two rangers working with the ...

News Mozambique » Niassa » Culture: Lake Niassa, Mozambique

News channel or source: https://www.travelweekly.com/Hotels/Lake-Niassa-Mozambique?v=D

Published on: Sunday 13 June 2021

Running for more than 347 mi/560 km along the Rift Valley Floor approximately 800 mi/1,300 km north of Maputo, Lake Niassa (also known as Lake Malawi) forms part of the border between Mozambique ...

News Mozambique » Niassa » Culture: Elephant Defenders: Rangers in Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique

News channel or source: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2018/07/31/elephant-defenders-rangers-in-niassa-national-reserve-mozambique

Published on: Tuesday 31 July 2018

Poachers have decimated the elephant population in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve, but Niassa rangers are determined to prevent the elephants from extinction. In the last few years these rangers ...

News Mozambique » Niassa » Culture: Mozambican reserve harbors largest documented breeding population of rare falcon

News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/mozambican-reserve-harbors-largest-documented-breeding-population-of-rare-falcon/

Published on: Wednesday 17 September 2025

A new study estimates Niassa Special Reserve in Mozambique hosts 68–76 breeding pairs of Taita falcons, likely the world’s biggest population of the rare raptor. Niassa’s granite inselbergs provide ...

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