Tanzania: Bamboo Farming Can Offset Carbon Emission
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-05-11 23:38:12 -0700 | green-news
THE idea to cultivate bamboo may sound strange and ridiculous in this country but the fact that deforestation is taking place at an alarming rate with unparalleled tree planting efforts; time has come for Tanzania to learn from other countries...
Floods destroy major highway
Source: Daily Nation
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-05-09 13:00:17 -0700 | green-news
Hundreds of travellers between Kenya and Tanzania were stranded at Ramisi in Kwale County on Thursday when the highway was cut off by floods. The road was damaged by raging floods from a seasonal river following two days of heavy...
Poaching in Mara surges as 14 elephants killed
Source: Daily Nation
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-05-03 13:23:11 -0700 | green-news
Fourteen elephants have been killed and their tusks pulled out in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in the last six months as poaching escalates. Kenya Wildlife Service rangers are investigating, two elephants that were found dead after being shot with...
Elephants, grizzlies and mobs: U. of Utah prof named National Geographic ‘Risk taker'
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-05-01 07:44:46 -0700 | green-news
University of Utah assistant professor Cagan Sekercioglu at the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania in November 2009...Courtesy Tanya Williams Elephants, grizzlies and mobs: U. of Utah prof named National Geographic Risk taker' Bird research » Dodging danger comes with the...
Maasai fight for ancestral lands
Source: CNN
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-05-01 06:03:42 -0700 | green-news
The Loliondo region in northern Tanzania lies along the famed southern migratory route, where herds of wildebeest and zebra graze at roadsides and antelope dart around the trees. In colonial times it was a hunting ground for European royalty. Today,...
Africa: Women Are 'Key Drivers' in Climate Change Adaptation
Source: All Africa
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-04-25 07:38:00 -0700 | green-news
Plans to protect ecosystems and help people adapt to climate change also known as ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) must involve vulnerable groups, including women and communities greatly hit by global warming if they are to succeed, according to scientists who met...
Tanzania: Best Technology in Gas, Oil Crucial
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-04-21 02:57:24 -0700 | green-news
Dodoma THE government has vowed to ensure ongoing oil and gas exploration activities in the country adhere to strict environmental guidelines. The Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office (Union Affairs), Samia Hassan Suluhu, told the National Assembly here on...
Tanzania: State Sticks to Its Guns On Maasai Land
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-04-10 01:02:36 -0700 | green-news
THE government has reaffirmed its stand over its decision to legally allocate 2,500sq km of land out of 4,000sq km game controlled area to Maasai communities. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ambassador Khamis Kagasheki, on Tuesday told more...
Tanzania: Dar to Establish Carbon Monitoring Centre
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-04-09 23:11:18 -0700 | green-news
National Carbon Monitoring Centre through funding from the government of Norway, the National Assembly was told on Tuesday. Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Mr Lazaro Nyalandu, said here that a proposal for the centre is ready and that...
Tribesmen 'Evicted For Wealthy Lion Hunters'
Source: Sky News
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-04-05 12:14:58 -0700 | green-news
Tanzania is preparing to kick Masai tribesmen off their land to allow rich tourists the freedom to shoot animals like lions and leopards, activists say...One part of the park has been allocated to the tribesmen but the other will be...
Costly farm inputs could lead to food shortage, say experts
Source: Daily Nation
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-04-01 10:52:33 -0700 | green-news
Experts are warning of looming food shortages in Kenya even as lack of subsidised government fertiliser and increased fuel prices hit this planting season. The farmers are faced with challenges of planting this season's maize crop at a time when...
Tanzania: Govt Fund Seeks to Protect Eastern Mountain Forests
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-03-31 23:45:38 -0700 | green-news
Muheza Khadija Mtungakoa, a 38-year-old mother of three, wears a broad smile as she prepares food on her energy-saving stove. She explains joyfully how it has helped reduce her reliance on the firewood she gathers from the nearby Amani Nature...
Tanzania: Land Grab Could Spell 'The End of the Maasai and the Serengeti'
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-03-29 03:48:43 -0700 | green-news
The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more The Tanzanian government this week announced a new 'conservation' area on Maasai lands, which community leader Samwel Nangiria says will spell 'the end of...
Deadly floods hit Tanzanian city
Source: BBC
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2012-02-22 12:53:14 -0800 | travel-news
Heavy rains inundate Dar es Salaam The heavy rains in Tanzania are set to continue At least 13 people have died in floods after unusually heavy rains hit Tanzania's main city of Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)...
Tanzania: US Offers 7bn/- for Wildlife Management
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2012-01-04 08:59:18 -0800 | business-news
in communities bordering conservation areas is a milestone in fighting poverty and sustainable development.
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