Mozambique News » Niassa News Mozambique » Niassa » Government: Mozambique Protects Lake Niassa’s Wealth of Species
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 » Government: Niassa was a conservation paradise. Then ISIS attacked.
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 » Government: Mozambique reserve found to host rare Taita falcon’s largest refuge
The world’s largest-known population of Taita falcons has been recorded in Mozambique’s Niassa Special Reserve, where researchers estimate up to 76 breeding pairs live among its isolated island of ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Government: Niassa Reserve Co-Management
The end of the first phase evaluation concluded that the good progress made in the project since mid 2004 warrants the continuation of the project into a second phase. The second phase of WWF's ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Government: Establishment of Lake Niassa Reserve
The project seeks to establish a new protected area in and around Lake Niassa that will contribute to the conservation of the diversity, abundance, and ecological integrity of the lake’s physical and ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Government: Mozambican reserve harbors largest documented breeding population of rare falcon
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 ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Government: Honey hunters in Mozambique use honeyguide birds to locate 75% of their harvest, study finds
A team of ornithologists from the University of Cape Town, in South Africa, and wildlife managers with the Niassa Carnivore Project, in Mozambique, has found that honey hunters in northern parts of ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Government: A Houston Zoo conservation partner was the target of a terrorist attack in Mozambique
A longtime conservation partner of the Houston Zoo was the target of a terrorist attack last month, the zoo announced. Niassa Carnivore Project, an organization aimed at protecting lions and other ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Government: Top African wildlife preserve celebrates full year with no elephant poaching
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 » Government: A honey badger feeding on honeycomb in Niassa Special Reserve, Mozambique (IMAGE)
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