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  • 调查显示全球43个城市中,内罗毕建筑成本最低

    肯尼亚, 2017/06/29 6月20日,我向肯尼亚援助的大米通过蒙巴萨-内罗毕标准轨铁路货运列车从蒙巴萨港运送至内罗毕内陆集装箱港。这是蒙内铁路通车以来首次承担货运任务,共运送90个集装箱,共2250吨大米。 蒙内铁路于6月1日正式客运通车后,按计划将于8月1日开启货运。此次运输应肯尼亚政府抗旱赈灾的要求而安排。中交建的运营团队克服诸多困难,仅用20余个小时,就完成了编组、吊车和运输等工作。以中国运营的蒙内铁路首次货运即运送中国援肯大米,受到肯方高度赞赏。  
  • Anti-poaching drones yielding fruits in Malawi

    MALAWI, 2017/06/20 An anti-poaching drone at Malawi’s Liwonde National Park currently being run by African Parks to combat poaching of elephants and rhinocerous is bearing fruits, the drone team operators Antoinette Dudley and Stephan De Necker have confirmed. Dudley, operator of the Air Shepherd drones, said the drones had been a potentially effective tool to protect elephants and other species that are a pillar of Malawi’s faltering tourism industry.
  • Africa: The World Has Finally Noticed That the Ocean Is a Finite Resource

    AFRICA, 2017/06/09 The United Nations Ocean Conference marks the initial time that oceans have been put at the forefront of world affairs. It straddles the United Nations Oceans Day on 8 June, giving nations and their non-government partners a stage to present their perspectives on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus will be on Goal 14 - oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
  • Etihad Cargo and Intradco Global Help bring endangered Rhinos home

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 2017/05/29 The critically endangered black rhino has returned to the wilds of Rwanda with the help of Etihad Cargo and animal transport specialist Intradco World. On behalf of African Parks, a conservation non-profit organization that manages national parks and protected areas on behalf of governments across the continent, Intradco chartered two Etihad Boeing 777 freighters to transport the 19 black rhinos from Johannesburg to the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Upon touching down at Kigali International Airport (KGL), the rhinos were carefully transferred to trucks to continue the final leg of their journey by road, under police escort.
  • Sri Lanka seeks international assistance as monsoon death toll reaches 113

    SRI LANKA, 2017/05/29 Death toll from recent landslides and floods, triggered by monsoon, in Sri Lanka has reached 113, as the island country has sought international assistance. The national-run disaster management center, while updating the death toll from an before figure of 91, said on Saturday that nearly 100 people were still missing next the worst torrential downpours since 2003 drenched the tropical Indian Ocean island country.
  • Dealing with the ‘loss and damage’ caused by climate change

    WORLD, 2017/05/14 Scaling down our emissions and building resilience against climate change can only take us so far. Some negative impacts and damages are now unavoidable. The inevitable consequences of human-caused climate change have collectively come to be known as “loss and damage”. First emerging decades ago as a relatively obscure plea by small island states, loss and damage has now gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation. But turning the concept of loss and damage into something more tangible for countries bearing the brunt of extreme weather or rising seas has proved more fractious.
  • Israel faces a number of challenges that require clear and robust energy and climate policies

    ISRAEL, 2017/05/14 Israel is a non-annex-I signatory to the Kyoto protocol, having ratified the protocol in 2004. At COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009, President Shimon Peres declared that Israel would do its utmost to reduce the all of GHG emissions by 20% by 2020, compared to a business-as-usual scenario – a reduction of about 21 MT CO2. The commitment led to the formulation of a National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation Plan in 2010.
  • Rio carnival stars environmental disaster

    BRAZIL, 2017/04/30 In 2015, the collapse of a dam at a mine in the Brazilian national of Minas Gerais caused environmental damage that was unprecedented in the country. Tonnes of mud with heavy metals — its volume originally estimated at some 25,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools — stretched over 800 kilometres and reached the Doce River ( “Doce” means “sweet” in Portuguese), one of the majority significant of Brazil’s major rivers. The disaster, which had irreversible negative effects on human health and the environment and marked the country's history, was revived this year in one of the majority significant spaces in Brazilian popular culture: the carnival of Rio de Janeiro.
  • To save famous park’s rhino, dehorning being considered

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2017/04/26  IT WOULD have been unthinkable just a few years ago that rhinos would be dehorned for their own protection in a park as large and famous as the HluhluweiMfolozi Park in KwaZuluNatal. The 96 000ha park is the province’s flagship Large Five reserve and is often referred to as the “cradle” of African rhino conservation. This is the park where a tiny remnant people of Africa’s southern white rhino species was rescued from world extinction just over a century ago. From a people of just 50 or so survivors in the 1890s, these animals were guarded carefully by the former Natal Parks Board and multiplied slowly to reach just over 20 000 a decade ago. POACHERS RESORT TO ANYTHING: Rhino horns hidden in the engine compartment of a car by poachers, poaching dropped in the Kruger National Park by almost 20% last year while the killing rate in KZN shot up by 38% in 2016.
  • We must act immediately to save the Great Barrier Reef

    AUSTRALIA, 2017/04/15 And so it begins: the end of days. The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching for the second year in a row and presently, according to the results of helicopter surveys released on Monday, it is the middle part (all 300 miles-plus of it) that is suffering the awful reef stress that comes courtesy of a warming ocean. Coral bleaching is incredibly critical. In particularly warm summers, the complex balance between the symbiotic algae and the coral becomes disrupted. To save themselves, the coral expels the algae in the hope of better times ahead. In this national, the coral becomes whitened. That’s what bleaching is.