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(April 09, 2021) WCS Mozambique was recently awarded a SOFAR Trident ROV. The plan is to use this modern tool to support our fieldwork, primarily on coral reefs. The ROV is useful to save time while performing visual assessment of both known reefs (monitoring) or new reefs (exploration), as well as help us define new areas of interest for MPAs. Exploring deep reefs where diving is more complicated is made easy by the ROV, which can go up to 50m depth. So far, we have tested the ROV in the Primeiras e Segund...

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(April 01, 2021) A mozambican citizen, André Mariano Baridi, 31, from Mueda District, was sentenced yesterday by the Judicial Court of Cabo Delgado Province to 16 years, accused of crimes against wildlife committed in the Niassa Special Reserve (NSR), in 2020.André Baridi (in the middle)The trial held on 25th March this year was based on the indictment of the crime of poaching in the form of attempted trapping. The citizen was captured carrying hunting implements and mechanical traps for large anim...

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(March 08, 2021) The National Institute for Fisheries Research (IIP) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) are promoting a training session for Mozambican focal points of the international biodiversity conventions and initiatives ratified by the country and for several key government partners. This takes place online, from 4 to 10 March, and is being attended by 30 Mozambican technicians, with the aim of providing them with information relevant to the functions they perform related to multilateral environm...

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(February 12, 2021) A team of marine scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in partnership with the Mozambique National Institute for Fisheries Research (IIP) has confirmed that the Critically Endangered shorttail nurse shark (Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum; formerly Ginglymostoma brevicaudatum) has been found to occur in Mozambique – extending their home range more than 1,367 miles (2,200 kilometers).Known as southern Africa’s most threatened endemic shark, it is one of the s...

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(February 02, 2021) According to the prestigious Africa Freak website Niassa Special Reserve is one of the Mozambique's best conservation area, ranked 68 out of 105 conservation areas in Africa.The recent publication characterises NSR in the following terms: "The largest protected wildlife area in Mozambique, Niassa Game Reserve is 42 000 km² of a diverse and ever-changing landscape. With a massive population of wild dogs, it is one of Africa’s top nature reserves to witness...

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(November 20, 2020) The Niassa Special Reserve Administration (NSR), through its Community Department, delivered 100 masks, liquid soap and water buckets with taps to the children of the Primary School of Lishenguwe, in the Mecula District (inside of the Reserve), in Niassa Province.It should be noted that this education unit was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and recently reactivated its activities for 7th Grade students.In the picture, the Director of the Primary School of Lishenguwe (left) receiving the mat...

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(November 20, 2020) The Head of Cooperation of the European Union Delegation to Mozambique, Isabel Faria de Almeida, and the Program Director of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Nilton Cuna, signed a 4.4 M EUR (EU financing 83 percent) project aiming at disrupting illicit supply chains of wildlife in Niassa Special Reserve, the largest conservation area in Mozambique. This event took place in the city of Lichinga on the 19th November. Photo: Nilton Cuna (left) and Isabel Faria de Almeida posed for the phot...

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(November 05, 2020) WCS Mozambique said goodbye on November 4 to Mr. James Bampton, who has been the Director of WCS Mozambique for the past 4 years.James Bampton ends his work mission at WCS Mozambique in a period that is essentially marked by the non-registration of elephant poaching in the last 30 months in the Niassa Special Reserve.In their farewell message, employees praised Mr. James Bampton's excellent professionalism and for being responsible for the growth of WCS programs in Mozambique. For his part, Jame...

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(September 28, 2020) The President of Mozambique, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, awarded this Friday, September 25th, Dr. Carlos Manuel Cipriano Lopes Pereira, with the “Environment Merit Medal”, in recognition of the role that he plays in rehabilitation and development conservation areas, namely, in studies and processes for reintroducing animals in National Parks and Reserves, mitigating the conflict between human and wildlife, as well as combating poaching and trafficking in wildlife products.  At the age...

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(September 08, 2020) Fire can be necessary and natural to an ecosystem, but when there is too much natural fuel in a forest, the risk of large uncontrollable fires increases, putting both the ecosystem and neighboring communities in danger. Cold burns, also referred to as controlled or prescribed burns, are a method used to reduce undergrowth and natural fuels in forests, thus reducing the risk of larger fires starting and damaging an ecosystem and communities. In July, Administração Nacional...

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