London based oil exploration company SOCO International have released details for their exploration of Block V in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Block V takes in parts of the important Virunga National Park, home of the mountain gorillas and location of Lake Edward and its hippo population. The company have released details about an aero-survey that they will be conducting […]
Mahikeng – An elephant calf lifted his little trunk in an apparent gesture of trust and pressed it against each of the three rangers who saved him from drowning on Saturday. Yolandi Sutherland, 25, a game ranger at Madikwe Game Reserve in the North West, described on Monday how maternal instinct drove her to jump into the river to save […]
Gorilla Trekking is an amazing safari experience where tourists encounter with the mountain gorillas in Uganda. This activtity is conducted every morning within the tropical rain forest. This time the gorillas surprisingly visited an ecolodge and caught up with a tourist who was looking to track the gorillas the next day. In the video, a troop of wild mountain gorillas […]
Today is Earth Day 2011, and while we celebrated last year by providing 100% of our revenues to a local charity, this year we are unable to participate so because our website is under construction (but stayed tuned, you are going to love it when it is ready). So, looking elsewhere for some great green travel deals or events on […]
Last week a two-day conference in Kigali, Rwanda, saw a range of groups from the ten African countries that are home to gorilla populations come together to discuss ways of protecting this endangered great ape. The conference attracted a wide range of groups involved with the gorillas from government departments through to law enforcement agencies, NGO’s and international experts. Gorillas […]
Week 1: Knysna Forest Our first week with EDGE of AFRICA started with a day exploring the wilds of the Knysna forests. We were introduced to the local forest and wildlife expert called Hynie Tredoux (a merge of Crocodile Dundee and David Attenborough). We had previously watched a documentary on the Knysna Forest elephants and hoped to be lucky in […]
Green Social NetworkWelectricity, a free web application for tracking and reducing household electricity consumption, has been launched by startup Welectricity Inc on April 22nd 2010, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Founder Herbert A (Haz) Samuel, a Caribbean energy consultant, notes that households typically consume a large proportion of total electricity in any country: “So, if we can find a […]
About 90% of domestic residences in Israel make use of solar water heating systems, and Israel’s National Infrastructure Ministry estimates that it has the highest intensity of solar panels for water heating, which satisfies some 4% of the country’s total energy demand. This translates into about 3 000 MW of installed solar water heating capacity. Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructures […]
G.E. and Arizona’s biggest electric utility are working together to answer a crucial but sometimes overlooked question concerning the future of solar power, even renewable energy in general – how the power grid can be prepared for more and more electric capacity that is not produced from fossil fuels. In a pioneering effort, G.E.’s researchers and the Arizona Public Service […]
Indonesia will rewrite rules on how developers of forest preservation projects that earn valuable carbon credits must share their profits with the government and local communities, a finance ministry official said on Thursday. Under a U.N.-backed scheme called reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), developing countries can be paid not to chop down trees, which absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide […]