New railway plans becoming reality …
TANZANIA SIGNS RAILWAY CONTRACTS WORTH OVER 9 BILLION US DOLLARS (Posted 03rd June 2015) Tanzania’s Minister for Transport Samuel Sitta last weekend confirmed that the Tanzanian government had put pen to paper with two Chinese companies for the construction of two new rail lines. One of them, to be built in Standard Gauge, will eventually […]
Ngamba gets the thumbs up from Rotary
Ngamba Island recognized with Vocational Service Award The Rotary Club of Entebbe has awarded Chimpanzee Trust with the ‘Vocational Service Award 2014- 2015’, as the best vocational service for its extraordinary projects in providing services to communities neighbouring Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. This was during Rotary Club of Entebbe’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Since the establishment […]
No 409 Wildlife Trade News: 15th May
Gorillas behind bars to show them off instead of more Chinese coming to Uganda or Rwanda to track them? Bad news just continued to roll in … in the spotlight today …………………… Welcome to Shanghai Zoo’s indoor gorilla ‘exhibit’. If this looks bad to you (and if it doesn’t, we suggest you check your pulse), […]
No 408 Wildlife Trade News: 14th May
The daily dose of bad news from around the world … Poaching, Wildlife and Environmental Crimes galore … in the spotlight today …………………… DOES THIS CHIMPANZEE LOOKED BORED OUT OF ITS MIND TO YOU? THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS. WELL YOU’D BE WOULDN’T YOU IF YOU WERE LOCKED IN A CONCRETE AND WIRE CAGE, SUCH AS […]
Burundi in turmoil as President goes rogue
QUO VADIS BURUNDI? (Posted 07th May 2015) Much has already been said here in recent months about Burundi, a member state of the East African Community increasingly falling into isolation over President Nkurunziza’s attempt to seek a third term which the constitution however does not permit. Events in recent days saw the Deputy Chief Justice […]
This blog is all about aviation but also about a lot more than that …
If you are like me you can’t wait to read what is coming up next.Aviation is in my blood and I simple can never get enough information about the latest news from airlines, manufacturers and service providers … Here is the May news update from Brussels Airlines … Online version Dear guest, Our May newsletter […]
40 kilometres in four months but 431 kilometres remain. Read on to find out more!
NEW STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY MAKES ADVANCES (Posted 04th May 2015) Information coming in from Kenya indicates that about 40 kilometres of the new Standard Gauge Railway, in short SGR, is already complete after work started in earnest some four months ago. A further 431 kilometres however need to be finished if the new Chinese financed […]
No 393 Wildlife Trade News: 27th April
The daily dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes from around the world ….. in the spotlight today …………………… Second seizure: Customs finds 161 turtles at mumbai airport. EXTRACT: Days after two suitcases crammed with 183 turtles were seized by the customs department at the city airport, another 161 turtles were recovered […]
No 382 Wildlife Trade News: 13th April
Another week and another dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … in the spotlight today …………………… Mumbai Crime: Duo nabbed at T2 trying to smuggle 183 live turtles – to MALAYSIA (NA comment: Yet again we see MALAYSIA implicated in the illegal wildlife trade. WHY? because the CITES Standing Committee and […]
No 373 Wildlife Trade News: 2nd April
The daily dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … CHINA and the CITES SECRETARIAT in the spotlight yet again. A media report which, if the past is anything to go by, will never appear on the CITES secretariat’s web site.http://www.cites.org/ If the media can easily find and photograph such illegalities in […]
It is the passengers who suffer when the regulators fight
KENYA AIRWAYS RELEASES STATEMENT ABOUT REDUCTION OF FLIGHTS TO TANZANIA (Posted 21st March 2015) Kenya Airways, together with other private airlines operating scheduled flights from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and Mwanza, were on Tuesday taken by surprise when the Tanzania CAA cut flights between the two countries by a staggering 60 percent […]
No 359 Wildlife Trade News 17th March 2015
Another dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and conservation crimes … in the spotlight today …………………… EU complicit in illegal deforestation claims report http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/buying-and-supplying/sourcing/eu-complicit-in-illegal-deforestation-claims-report/515466.article No 359 Wildlife Trade News 17th March 2015 Rhino Squad in Training for Botswana as Country Battles Poachershttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-16/rhino-squad-in-training-for-botswana-as-country-battles-poachers Conservationists: Seven elephants killed in Tsavo last week. (NA comment: Case for […]
No 356 Wildlife Trade News 14th March 2015
The daily dose of bad news … about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … in the spotlight today …………………… PM+: EU must take action to close ivory trade loopholes. extract: In 2011 Belgium issued just eight certificates for raw ivory. The following year that increased to 18. 2013 saw a huge jump to 97 and […]
Beware of the power of the social media!
SOCIAL MEDIA COMPLAINTS ABOUT POOR SERVICES TRIGGER INSTANT RDB RESPONSE (Posted 27th February 2015) Frustrated with service levels, treated poorly by waiters, left standing at the reception as if you don’t belong? In Rwanda, already one of the best connected countries in Eastern Africa, such treatment, when reported on the social media, has instant consequences […]
No 319 Wildlife Trade News 29th January 2015
Nature alert continues to provide updates on poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes and with their permission I share this daily dose of bad news with my readers … in the spotlight today …………………… Kasukuwere petitioned over sale of baby elephants. The Zimbabwe Conservation Taskforce (ZCTF) today submitted a petition against the sale of baby elephants […]
Gulf Airlines – growing fleets, more destinations, more career opportunities
GULF AIRLINES BEGIN NEW RECRUITMENT DRIVES (Posted 27th January 2015) All three leading Gulf carriers, Qatar Airways, Emirates and Etihad, will begin fresh recruitment drives over the next couple of weeks, focusing on India, Sri Lanka, Australia, South America, parts of Europe and of course Africa. Announcements on the respective company websites – found by […]
President Michel announces changes to his cabinet but leaves the tourism portfolio untouched
SEYCHELLES GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE SEES CLIMATE CHANGE COME TO CABINET (Posted 26th January 2015) ‘Seychelles – Another World’ earlier today gained an added meaning when President James Alix Michel, as he announced a reshuffle of his government, added Climate Change to the portfolio of Environment and Energy, with the Ministerial post held by Didier Dogley. The […]
Elephant News
This is a reproduction of an article just received from Melissa Groo of Elephant News (www.savetheelephants.org) which highlights the economic losses for Tanzania in the medium and long terms as a result of the industrial scale poaching over the past few years in the Selous Game Reserve. The article is reproduced here unedited, i.e. spelling […]
More controversy erupts over plans to ‘harvest sand’ off the South coast beaches
INNOCENT OMISSION OR ILL INTENT – DIANI RESIDENTS ASK SEARCHING QUESTIONS (Posted 24th January 2015) Members of the South Coast Residents Association, a civic platform where both businesses and individual residents of the on- and off beach locations south of Mombasa meet, are furious about the tactics employed by the Kenya Maritime Authority to keep […]
More trouble for Air Tanzania as pilots fail to report to work
AIR TANZANIA PILOTS FAIL TO REPORT ON DUTY STRANDING HUNDREDS (Posted 01st January 2015) Reports from Dar es Salaam claim that a number of pilots of Air Tanzania, the ailing national airline, have failed over the past few days to turn up for duty, leaving aircraft on the ground and several hundred passengers stranded. The […]
Kenya’s air traffic controllers are at it again
KENYA’S AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL GOES SLOW AGAIN TO PRESS FOR HIGHER PAY (Posted 16th December 2014) Going by past experience with air traffic controllers in Nairobi may the go slow yesterday morning, which saw several planes held on the taxiway for extended periods of time, of course burning unnecessary fuel and delaying passengers’ arrival at […]
No 285 Wildlife Trade News 5th December 2014
Your daily dose of bad news from around the world about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … in the spotlight today …………………… ALERT: Zimbabwe’s government admits capturing baby elephants to send to UAE SHAME ON ZIMBABWE AND THE UAE photo for illustrative purposes only. courtesy Nat Geo. Baby elephants. Deprived of their mothers, captured, and […]
No 263 Wildlife Trade News 12th November 2014
The daily dose of bad news about the ongoing global poaching crisis, about wildlife and environmental crimes from around the world under the spotlight today …………………… China flouts efforts to protect world’s wildlife extract: For two decades at least, Chinese consumer demand has been directly linked to the precipitous decline of wildlife populations around the […]
No 261 Wildlife Trade News 10th November 2014
Your daily dose of bad news from around the world with details about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … this publication tells it as it is … under the spotlight today …………………… Tell The Truth: Conservationists tell Tanzania Government Mouthpieces : extract: That government has lost its credibility and as far as conservation is concerned […]
Campi ya Kanzi November News
Many of my readers are keen to learn more about the less talked about places in Kenya and here is another chance to see why Kenya still got what it takes … Are you having trouble viewing this email? Click here. Campi ya Kanzi News November 2014 Greetings from Campi ya Kanzi! October was a […]
No 251 Wildlife Trade News 30th October 2014
The daily dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes and more from around the world in the spotlight today …………………… Seized 50,000 Colombian Wildlife Specimens Image: Birds recovered by Colombian National Police as part of INTERPOL’s 2012 Operation Cage (c) INTERPOL http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3216551&Itemid=1 (NA comment: Time and again we can see results coming […]
Health Me Up!, African Rental Housing Conference, Oktoberfest 2014 & Horse Racing: The Spanish Cup & The Jim Kidman Bowl
Kenya is buzzing again with activities and places to gowhere things happen … find out all about East Africa’s most vibrant city, Nairobi, and what you as a visitor, or as a local can do over the next week, courtesy as always of KenyaBuzz e-Weekly Having trouble viewing this email? Click here October 10th – […]
Uganda’s aviation sector – as dead as a Dodo
IT IS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO AIR UGANDA (Posted 01st October 2014) The airline massacre unleashed by the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority’s action of 17th of June this year, when in an act of unparalleled magnitude all international flights by Ugandan registered airlines were grounded to avoid being cited, named and shamed by ICAO […]
Oktoberfest, Earthdance Nairobi, Magical Kenya Expo & Gertrude’s Charity Walk
The weekly update from KenyaBuzz e-Weeklyof where to go and what to do while in Kenya this week. Having trouble viewing this email? Click here October 3rd – 9th Top seven tips on how to maximize your adventure in East Africa. Read more A great, fun-filled weekend is on the cards. It all begins with […]
Xplore Travel Fair, Concours d’Elegance, Rift Valley Odyssey & Oktoberfest
Going to Kenya or staying in Kenya?Here is the latest update what is going one vis a vis cultural, music, shows, culinary and sporting events, brought to you by the KenyaBuzz e-Weekly Having trouble viewing this email? Click here September 26th – October 2nd Click here for more Two Hours of Sunset images Zonk out […]
