Tag: Ramsar
Ramsar site on Katonga River under serious threat by Chinese investors
Tony Ofungi - eTN Uganda- October 2, 2019 02:40A Ramsar site on the Katonga River in Uganda is under serious threat by investors who are reclaiming this stretch of wetland for the construction of a factory to be ... Read More
Uganda tour operators warn of mass protests over proposed Murchison Falls dam
Tony Ofungi - eTN Uganda- June 12, 2019 18:54In an advertisement in “The New Vision” daily by the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) on June 7, a notice of intended application for a license from Bonang Power and Energy ... Read More
Boat sinks, many dead at Lake Mai-Ndombe in Inongo, Congo
Juergen T Steinmetz- May 26, 2019 19:57Tourists are not expected to be among the 30 dead in Western Congo, where 200 more are missing after a boat sank at Lake Mai-Ndombe in Inongo, Congo Lake Mai-Ndombe ... Read More
Kenya’s Tana River Delta becomes world’s latest Ramsar site
editor- November 5, 2012 04:46(eTN) - Those with greedy eyes on this prized area, wanting to turn it into agricultural wastelands through unsustainable farming methods, will have to think twice now that the Tana ... Read More
Wetland tourism: a great experience
editor- February 3, 2012 05:11From the Great Barrier Reef to the Okavango Delta, the Danube Delta and many other thousands of wetlands, the human love for watery places has sustained tourism and recreation in ... Read More
Aldabra Atoll adds Ramsar to their World Heritage Site status
editor- April 20, 2010 03:39It was confirmed recently to this correspondent that the UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Read More