August 2021 Archives

State of protected areas in Central Africa: 2020

Report provides key recommendations for improving Central African protected areas

Themes: Conservation, Parks, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, Poverty

Dozens of experts explain the current state of the critical biodiversity hot spot, from management to mining

Ndumbaro Makes a Criminally Clueless and Dangerous Statement Urging Hunting Investors to Commit More Crime Against Rural People

On 5th August, the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Damas Ndumbaro, made a most inflammatory statement totally ignoring rule of law, human rights, land rights and common sense.

Themes: Conservation, Hunting, Human rights, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, Parks, Pastoralists, Poverty

The Failure of the Manongi Regime of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority.

And the Maasai as Natural Conservationists

Themes: Conservation, Human rights, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, Pastoralists, Parks, Poverty

By Tubulu Lerug Sokoine Nebasi (Diwani Nje ya Halmashauri/Councillor outside the District Council). (Tubulu is the first guest blogger here at View from the Termite Mound, but any serious voice for Ngorongoro land rights – not least including Loliondo, if anyone would be brave enough - is more than welcome. Susanna)