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Serengeti highway decision set for 15th march ^Featured

The East African Court of Justice has ruled that a decision will be handed down on the 15th of March, if the Tanzanian government will be permanently restrained to build a highway across the Serengeti, as was and is declared intent inspite of a misleading letter to the contrary sent early last year to UNESCO.
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Kenya’s march towards renewable energy sources continues ^Featured

Kenya’s policy decision to have half of the electricity produced by 2018 come from geothermal sources has been boosted when ground was broken yesterday to begin construction of another 280 MW geothermal power plant to be known as Olkaria III, neighbouring the existing plants of Olkaria I and Olkaria II.
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Save Lamu sues Kenya government over port and railway plans ^Featured

No sooner had Kenya and Southern Sudan put pen to paper during the week, signing a deal to construct a pipeline from the oil fields in Southern Sudan to the planned new port in Lamu, did a civic group ‘Save Lamu’ emerge and file legal action against the government seeking to prevent any construction from going ahead.
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Tagging Expedition- 2012 Information Sheet ^Featured

Thank you for your interest in our tagging expedition from Feb 15 to March 15. This year we will be putting out identification tags. These will tell us very quickly whether our whale shark population is resident and for what periods of the year they are around.
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Kenyan film "Papa Shillingi" wins top award at Germany’s biggest underwater film festival ^Featured

The film Papa Shillingi (meaning whale shark in Swahili) is a documentary film about the biggest fish in the ocean, the whale shark.
It was filmed entirely in Diani Beach, 40 km South of Mombasa and produced by Volker Bassen and Katrin Ender.
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Rwandan appointed the head Gorilla research organization

The Karisoke Gorilla Research Centre has just announced that they have appointed the first ever Rwandan national, Mr. Felix Ndagijimana, as its new director. Felix will take over from Katie Fawcett, who has been holding the position for some time.
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It is a Rhino fest at Ziwa

Within a week after reporting that Bella had a baby girl on the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Uganda, did news just break that Kori, the third adult female, has also given birth last night in a surprise development not expected so soon.
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