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(June 17, 2019) Before 2015, reserve had lost thousands of elephants due to rampant organized poaching; From 2015-2017 poaching numbers declined with an average of 100 elephants killed each year; Success is due to multiple factors:Partnership with the Government of Mozambique and concession operators on the ground in Niassa;Deployment of a special police rapid intervention unit;Increased aviation program providing surveillance and the deployment of a helicopter and Cessna aircraft;Tougher sentencing of poachers...

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(June 07, 2019) For many years, WCS’s Global Marine Program has worked in the Mozambican Channel and the wider Western Indian Ocean (WIO). These areas help comprise a regional program that includes Madagascar and the coastal areas of Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, where communities depend on the health and productivity of reefs, mangrove, and seagrass ecosystems for fishing, agriculture, and tourism.  The region is a global hotspot of marine biodiversity. It has been identified as the largest collec...

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(May 29, 2019) The announcement on Monday of events celebrating Mozambique’s National Administration of Conservation Areas’ eighth birthday on Saturday, June 1, formed the backdrop for the revelation that Niassa Special Reserve, the country’s largest, is also celebrating a milestone – a year without a single elephant dying at the hand of poachers. The ANAC noted in the statement a “significant reduction in elephant poaching in the country, especially in the Niassa National Reserve...

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(May 02, 2019) The Niassa National Reserve (NNR) celebrated World Workers' Day yesterday at a parade ceremony held at the headquarters of the District of Mecula in Niassa Province.NNR participated with 75 employees among rangers, administrative staff and senior managers.The the slogan for this year was "Our Commitment is to Promote Sustainable and Integrated Management of Natural Resources".Thus, NNR workers reiterate their commitment with civil society to continue working together to improve the conservation ...

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(May 02, 2019) Dr Ebenezer Kwasi Agbley presenting the main points from his initial report on elaborating a tourism development strategy for conservation areas in Mozambique. Mr. James Bampton, WCS Mozambique participated, seen here sitting beside Mr. Cornelio Miguel, previous Warden of Niassa Reserve and currently ANAC's focal point for Transfrontier Conservation Areas, of which Niassa Reserve is one with Selous Game reserve in Tanzania.

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(April 29, 2019) The Niassa National Reserve in northern Mozambique is one of Africa’s largest (442,300 km2) wildest, and most spectacular landscapes, comprising 28% of Mozambique’s protected land. A globally important site for African biodiversity, Niassa contains the largest extant blocks of miombo woodland - dotted by enormous inselbergs soaring hundreds of metres high - within a single protected area. The Reserve harbors some of Mozambique’s most significant populations of wildlife, includi...

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(April 26, 2019) Niassa National Reserve comprises 8 districts in northern of Mozambique, 6 in Niassa Province and 2 in Cabo Delgado Province (Montepuez and Mueda). In the face of the natural disaster that is already being felt with intensity in the Cabo Delgado Province, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), co-manager of the Niassa National Reserve Administration, in partnership with the National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC), has a contingency plan to use of its Cessna 206 aircraft to survey...

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(May 05, 2017)   -   Mozambique's National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) is investigating the disappearance of 763 kilogrammes of ivory confiscated from poachers in the northern region of the country.

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(April 11, 2017)   -   66 wildlife traffickers were arrested in 8 countries – a record breaking for the EAGLE Network in its entire history.

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(April 10, 2017)   -   Malaysian authorities have seized about $3.1 million worth of rhinoceros horns flown in from Mozambique via Qatar, the latest seizure in Asia of products from endangered species to feed demand for traditional remedies, officials said on Monday.

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