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PORTO-NOVO, July 25 — A west African nature reserve spanning Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger on Friday escaped a Unesco listing as under threat despite the jihadist conflict harrowing the Sahel region. South Africa convinced the UN body’s World Heritage Committee to back an amendment — also...

PORTO-NOVO, July 25 — A west African nature reserve spanning Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger on Friday escaped a Unesco listing as under threat despite the jihadist conflict harrowing the Sahel region.

Backers argued that the countries had set up sufficient measures to guard against attacks, including stepping up patrols. It also said that Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger should compile a report on the conservation status of the WAP complex by 2022. It hosts 85 per cent of west Africa’s savannah elephants and “the only viable population of lions in the region”.

 

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