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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
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Description: Water scarcity is a major problem in Darfur. IDPs have to lineup and wait for upto six hours to fill a 4 litter jerry can with water.

Keywords: civil war, desertification, nature conservation, drinking water, rural water supply, general water issues, water resources, water supply, general health issues
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
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Description: Water pumps are the only source for clean drinking water in the camps. With the large number of IDPs and a few number of pumps that are operational the IDPs have to line for hours to get water. This high demand of water has resulted in the drying of water pump in the camp.

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, nature conservation, drinking water, rural water supply, general water issues, water resources, water supply
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
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Description: Calves in a Zeriba (Kraal) in Darfur.

Keywords: biodiversity, ecosystems, internally displaced people, nature conservation
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
 Source: UNEP

Description: Some of the trees that are still standing in Darfur.

Keywords: land tenure, agricultural resources, biodiversity, ecosystems, forests, land use, agriculture, nature conservation, rangeland management
 
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Date created: 13 Feb 2006
 Owner: UNEP
 Source: UNEP

Description: Environment directorate staff members.

Keywords: forests, land use, nature conservation, general water issues, general health issues, human rights, livelihoods
 
Title: Tiang, Bokor reedbuck and white-eared kob near the main road, Jonglei state
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: Wildlife in Southern Sudan are found as much outside as inside protected areas

Keywords: fauna, national parks and reserves, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Jonglei state
 
Title: The flooded grasslands of Southern Sudan support very large bird populations, including black-crowned cranes (Balearica pavonina
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Keywords: ecology, fauna, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Jonglei state, Padak
 
Title: Flooded grasslands in Southern Sudan support very large bird populations, including pink-backed pelicans (Pelecanus rufescens)
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Keywords: fauna, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Jonglei state, Padak
 
Title: The flooded grasslands of Southern Sudan support very large bird populations, including cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis)
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Keywords: fauna, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Jonglei state, Padak
 
Title: Flooded grasslands in Southern Sudan support large bird populations, incl. saddle-billed storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis)
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Keywords: ecology, fauna, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Jonglei state, Padak
 
Title: A baboon in Dinder National Park, Sennar state
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: The level of actual protection is highly variable but generally weak throughout Sudan. Poaching in a problem in all major parks

Keywords: fauna, national parks and reserves, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Dinder National Park, Sennar state
 
Title: Juvenile ostriches taken from the wild as chicks and raised in an aid compound in Padak
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: Innovative and sustainable solutions are needed to stem the decline of wildlife in Southern Sudan. These juvenile ostriches will grow too big, powerful and dangerous to be kept as pets. The long-term fate of these individuals is sealed, but the species can be preserved in the region.

Keywords: environmental management, fauna, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Jonglei state, Padak
 
Title: Hundreds of thousands of white-eared kob migrate in a seasonal search for dry ground, new pasture and water.
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
 Owner: Phil Snyder
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Description: The migration of white-eared kob across the flood plains of Southern Sudan is on the least known but most spectacular wildlife wonders of the world. Kob are perfectly adapted to the flood plain environment of Southern Sudan and have been hunted by local people for centuries

Keywords: fauna, migratory species, nature conservation, wildlife conservation
 
Title: Kob are perfectly adapted to the flood plain environment of Southern Sudan and have been hunted by local people for centuries
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
 Owner: Phil Snyder
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Keywords: fauna, migratory species, nature conservation, wildlife conservation
 
Title: The infrastructure and staff capacity of Dinder National Park were greatly improved thanks to a GEF grant
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: Sufficient and sustainable government funding is urgently needed now that GEF support has come to an end

Keywords: environmental management, national parks and reserves, nature conservation, Dinder National Park, Sennar state
 
Title: The core of Dinder National Park is comprised of wetlands that are critical sources of water in the dry season
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Keywords: fauna, inland waters, national parks and reserves, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Dinder National Park, Sennar state
 
Title: Warthogs are very common in Dinder National Park's wetlands
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: Although many have been poached, the park still supports a significant population of larger mammals

Keywords: fauna, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, Dinder National Park, Sennar state
 
Title: This young chimpanzee named Thomas was confiscated from a trader in Yei, Central Equatoria, in April 2006
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: Thomas is shown here with his current keeper, the Undersecretary to the Government of Southern Sudan, Ministry of Environment, Wildlife Conservation and Tourism. His fate is uncertain as chimpanzees are completely unsuitable as pets and there are no rehabilitation or holding facilities in Sudan.

Keywords: fauna, nature conservation, wildlife conservation, endangered species
 
Title: The South Sudan National Environment Association was founded in Boma in 2006
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
 Owner: Thomas Catterson - USAID STEP Program
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Description: The SSNEA is the first environmental NGO to be established in Southern Sudan

Keywords: environmental education, environmental information, environmental management, environmental protection, nature conservation, NGO, community development, education