African Wildlife Research Agency Forms

Libreville The environment ministers of Africa, Friday, setting up an international research body in order to take your lessons and protect wildlife in the continent, with the aim of changing the loss of biodiversity there.Africa is famous for lions, elephants, rhinos and leopards which attract millions of tourists every year, but margasatwanya threatened by population pressure, poaching and desertification.

African elephants are larger in size than Asian elephants, including the biggest in the world, weighing 6,000 pounds.A declaration issued late Friday, at the end of a two-week conference on biodiversity in Gabon's capital Libreville, said the proposed body will attract scientists from all over Africa.

Institutions would "gather knowledge about biodiversity and the protection of research ... an important migration routes of wildlife species and their habitats and regions most vulnerable to climate change ... (and establish) a regional center of biological diversity".

They also pledged to increase cross-border cooperation.United Nations Environmental Programme states of Africa have 1229 species of mammals, a quarter of all mammals on Earth, and as many as 2000 species of birds, one-fifth of the total flying animals in the world.

One of them is a bird-snake of Little African (Anhinga rufa) - birds in sub-Saharan Africa. Species that nest in the tree and set up three to six eggs incubating. Birds have a very long neck, and can swim with the neck above the water surface.Congo Basin is the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon.

Since taking office in Gabon after his father died last year, President Ali Ben Bongo has made himself a strong supporter of the environment, and prohibits the export of raw timber, expand protection areas and creating 13 new national parks.(Reuters)