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- Japan and Tanzania teams up to boost Kilimanjaro Coffee consumption in Tokyo
- Guinness World Records Unaware of Tanzania’s Landrover Parade Claims
- Tanzania prepares to break Germany’s Record for staging the longest parade of Land-Rover trucks in the world next October
- Bus Company hatches route between Dar-es-salaam and Nairobi via Tarakea and Oloitokitok
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Five villages in Mbarali allowed to thrive on seceded part of Ruaha National Park
Through ‘Government Notice 754 of 2023’ Tanzania has annexed a total of 405 square kilometers from Ruaha National Park, giving the land to local villages for farming and grazing activities.
Tanzania Voted Best Safari Country for Wildlife Viewing in 2024
A comprehensive survey of almost 3,600 reviews from experts and safari-goers has ranked the country as number one in the wildlife-viewing category.
Ruaha National Park is conducting the first ever dedicated research on snakes
Many people are scared of snakes and most will go any length to avoid them, but this hasn’t deterred the management of Ruaha National Park to embark on special research on the slithering reptiles.
Lake Natron in Danger: Killer shrubs advancing from Kenya threaten this important wetland in Tanzania
It is being describes as a weed but the deadly Prosopis Mrashia is essentially a shrub, in fact a tree. A poisonous one at that.
Manyara Region designates a million hectares of forested Village land for international carbon trading
Though Manyara is endorsing 1 million hectares for forest conservation with carbon trading in mind, the region has already designated 2.3 million hectares for grazing and livestock production.
Kenya and Tanzania may soon get warmer as rains continue to pound Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti
The report indicates that forecasted wetter-than-normal conditions for June to September 2024 echo the patterns of 1998 and 2010, highlighting the level of impact especially for South Sudan and Sudan, which may experience impacts of floods.
Tanzania needs special laws to protect ancestral lands
Advocate Cosatta explained that securing their ancestral precincts was the best way to safeguard the rights of marginalized communities in addition to protecting the country’s remaining customs and traditions.
Villages in Tanzania now earn more from Carbon Trading than through Tourism and Hunting Activities
Five villages of Irkiushoibor, Makame, Katikati, Ndedo and Ngabolo in Kiteto District of Manyara Region profess to earn 2.6 billion/- from carbon trading through their Wildlife Management Area
Lake Nyasa water level rises to a record high, threatening lives
As it happens, over 50 percent of the water feeding Nyasa originates from Tanzania where the main catchment for the world’s most beautiful lake is found.
Titanic on Mount Kilimanjaro: In search of the plane which crashed on the Mawenzi Peak Iceberg
The Wreckage of Flight EC104 plane was discovered on Mount Kilimanjaro on May 22, 1955. Since then it is not clear what happened to the salvaged fuselage.