Mozambique News » Niassa News Mozambique » Niassa » Social: 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 » Social: 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 » Social: 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 » Social: 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 » Social: One of Africa's largest wildernesses is thriving—because locals have a stake in its success
Joana Liconde stands on a sandbar at the Chemambo sacred pools, her emerald dress drenched and raining water droplets at her feet. She faces the altar, a young baobab tree whose hallowed girth is ...
News Mozambique » Niassa » Social: 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 » Social: 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 » Social: Elephant Defenders: Rangers in Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique
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 » Social: A honey badger feeding on honeycomb in Niassa Special Reserve, Mozambique (IMAGE)
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