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Zimbabwe Plans To Save Wetlands — Just Not Its Own

Children playing near rubbles from a half-demolished shop that was illegally built on crucial wetlands in Harare. Although environmental protection laws exist in Zimbabwe, enforcement is weak. Credit: Xinhua via ZUMA

As Zimbabwe prepares to host a global wetlands summit, its own wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate.

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Is The World’s Rarest Bird About To Go The Way Of The Dodo?

Is The World's Rarest Bird About To Go The Way Of The Dodo?

The Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest bird, is at a serious risk of extinction. The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), which led a study on the species, estimates that only 25 individual birds now remain in the wild. Human activity has driven the birds to just one remaining wetland in northeast Madagascar, but even that […]

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