Mozambique News » Niassa News Mozambique » Niassa » Life: 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 » Life: Life teams in Mozambique
Equipas de vida—“life teams,” in Portuguese—are multiplying across the rugged highlands of northern Mozambique. Seven years ago the teams were merely a beautiful gleam in the mind of Rebecca Vander ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Life: 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 » Life: 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 » Life: After terror attacks, Mozambique nature reserve faces ‘new reality’
If you liked this story, share it with other people. On April 29, ISIS-affiliated insurgent fighters attacked a conservation outpost inside Niassa Special Reserve in northern Mozambique. The attack ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Life: 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 » Life: 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 ...