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Niger's huge biodiversity reserve is under threat

This is one of Africa's largest nature reserves and one of the last bastions of Saharan wildlife, but it may lose almost half of its area to oil development...

08/14/2019 6:22 AMupdated: 08/16/2019 2:53 PM

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15 comments

  • Emu E.
    05/25/2021 15:38

    Seems the Chinese company signed the agreement 4 years before the reserve was created in 2012...I don't know how the law is applied in Niger but the reserve encroaches the Chinese oil blocks...

  • Wiguna A.
    05/02/2021 01:12

    Pemerintahan yang serakah.

  • Alessandra P.
    04/20/2021 14:00

    Bene. Mi fa piacere. Prima si distrugge, prima si sparisce. E ci siamo vicinissimi

  • Alestair B.
    04/13/2021 17:10

    probably the Nigerien government suffers political pressure from the Chinese government and maybe that's the reason why they give the several regions of the reserved area to Chinese businesses

  • Alden G.
    04/01/2021 06:38

    Nature abuse

  • Tony D.
    03/26/2021 20:37

    As human race one day we will regret whatever we done to nature but till than its going to be very late.

  • Bruno B.
    03/19/2021 06:48

    Does anyone know where to access this petition?

  • Maria P.
    03/19/2021 02:16

    Where we can sign?

  • Brigitte S.
    03/18/2021 09:10

    The sun's blazing temperatures in this desert region is scorching. Yet they drill for oil in Okavango Delta - the only water source that supports the last remaining wild animals. It seems the SWAPO government will not invest in solar energy, but drain it of all it's water and wildlife resources - for that instant 'paycheck/bribe', to satisfy the temporary emotional need, to flash about in fast cars, feathers and finery, while the people have little or nothing, and indigenous wildlife and nature is the cost

  • Carol H.
    03/17/2021 21:13

    I thought we were cutting back on our use of oil ?

  • Jonathan G.
    03/17/2021 19:16

    Always the same story!! Big companies don’t give a fuck and the weak and corrupted leaders that rotate in and out every election give in for the fucking money!!

  • Ronald M.
    03/17/2021 17:10

    The Chinese are environment destroyer tsk tsk tsk!

  • Ignacio C.
    03/17/2021 15:16

    Another Brutal damage.....so sad.....only because moneyyyy...so sad

  • Kevin K.
    03/17/2021 14:43

    Lol european companies destroying their nature people know nothing really

  • Abbasov R.
    03/17/2021 13:37

    The entire Earth will turn to China one day.