In Senegal, seawater seeping into underground fresh water aquifers is slowly increasing soil salinity causing havoc for farming communities living near wetlands rich in biodiversity. Senegal's Siné ...

To mark World Wetlands Day 2014, Senegal has designated as a Ramsar site the Réserve Naturelle Communautaire de Tocc Tocc, covering 273 hectares. This permanent coastal freshwater lake provides a ...

Senegal's Siné Saloum Delta is a biodiversity hotspot. But drought, climate change and the uncontrolled logging of mangrove forests, has meant the ground's salinity has shot up – threatening the ...

Today, millions of people around the world will be taking part in activities to mark World Wetlands Day Since 1997 World Wetlands Day has been used to raise public awareness to the values and benefits ...

FAO and the French Facility for Global Environment will work together in a new partnership to improve the state of natural resources in the wetlands of Africa’s Sahel region, in particular the ...

Twenty-fourth ordinary session of the Bureau – paragraph IV.38 New information: At its last session (Cairns, November-December 2000), the Committee approved a sum of US$ 130,475 for a project on the ...

Dakar — The manatee, or sea cow, is a torpedo-shaped marine mammal that moves languidly through the tepid waters of the Caribbean, South America and along the coast, rivers and wetlands from Senegal ...

ORISTANO, Italy/DJOUDJ, Senegal, Sept 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - L iving on the edge of wetlands on the Italian island of Sardinia, Anna Rita Cocco is mourning the loss of her elderly father ...

Since this site was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1988, IUCN, in co-operation with the Direction des Parcs Nationaux du Senegal (DPN) and the Netherlands Research Institute of ...