Tag: Tanzania
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Killing lions to protect them? Does it make sense?
In today's New York Times, Alexander N. Songorwa, the director of wildlife for the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, makes a plea for the African lion not to be declared an endangered species
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$4.7 Million to Advance Solar in Tanzania
Over 100 schools, health centers and businesses in rural Tanzania will be sporting solar panels in the very near future.
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Another Shady Land Deal in Africa, This One Assisted By the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania
The think tank that revealed the connection between Ivy League universities and land grabs in Africa is now concerned about the support the U.S. ambassador to Tanzania is lending to a land deal in that country that would displace more than 160,000 people.
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Solar Power Brings Computing to Rural Africa
Rural villagers, many of them women, are learning computing for the first time. And it's being done without fossil fuels.
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Controversial Serengeti Road Is Being Built After All
It seems some news we thought we learned about ten days ago, about the controversial road through Serengeti National Park in Tanzania being called off, wasn't entirely correct. The Tanzanian Natural Resources and
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World Bank May Save Serengeti From Bisecting Road
A quick update on the status of a proposed road that would bisect Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and potentially destroy the world renowned annual wildebeest migration. According to Mongabay, the World Bank has offered to fund an alternative route
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Road Through Serengeti National Park Will Kill Annual Wildebeest Migration: Richard Leakey
Plans by the Tanzanian government to run a road through the northern part of the Serengeti National Park have been drawing criticism from a whole host of conservationists. Even though the part of the proposed
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Rare Black Rhinos Return Home After 46 Years
After decades of poaching in the latter part of the 20th century, the fate of Eastern Black Rhinos in the Serengeti seemed bleak; By the 1990s, nearly all the region's rhinos had been wiped out as only two females remained in
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Celebs on the Mountain: Watch MTV's Summit on the Summit
We've been closely watching the star-studded climb that brought Emile Hirsch, Jessica Biel, Isabel Lucas and others on a grueling trek to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The climb, replete with gut-wrenching altitude sickness, A-list drama, and a healthy
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Climbing Kilimanjaro to Awaken the World to Water
How do you draw the world's attention to a deadly global scourge? Call up your friends and climb a mountain (it could help if your friends are mega-celebrities and MTV wants to make a film about it.) This is how Kenna set out to illuminate the global
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Climate Change To Take 68% Bite Out of Tanzania's Economy
Continuing its string of climate change warnings this week, the International Institute for Environment and Development has commented on just how badly the poor in Africa are going to be hit by warming temperatures and
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Kona Donates AfricaBikes to Africa
Kona not only sells good bikes, sponsors riders to jump off things taller than our heads, and promotes recreational and functional biking, but it also is putting those bikes to work all over Africa. Their AfricaBikes program
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"Economic Colonialism" Rears Its Ugly Head in African Biofuel Market
This is one for those people who don't believe labor and social justice issues are intimately
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Microbes in Dirt Provide Electricity for African Villagers
Providing electricity to people in countries where either the grid is not reliable, or nonexistent and unlikely ever to be built, can make a huge difference in
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Green Living Project Documents Sustainability in Africa
Want a dream job? How about one where you travel to far off places, documenting all of the successful, sustainable projects that different community groups are not only trying but also excelling in? One where you meet people around the world, see
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Ah, Kipunji, We Hardly Knew You: Newly Discovered Monkey Already Threatened With Extinction
Unknown to science until three years ago, the Kipunji—a three-foot tall, grayish brown monkey with a long tail and a black face which lives in the Southern Highlands and Udzungwa Mountains of
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Butterfly Explosion In Montréal
Image: Dave BergeronIt's that time of year again in Montréal when even the deepest and coldest snow drifts yield to the warm, melting power of the sun: the cyclists are out in full force, outdoor cafés make a comeback and people start smiling at each
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Wonder Welders: Cool Recycled Metal Art by Tanzanians with Polio
That polio is still disabling people in this day and age is an unfortunate reality, but a group of victims in Tanzania has not let it stop them from becoming pioneering eco-artists. In 2004, they joined together to form a welding workshop in Dar es
