The 20th Tanzania Economic Update (TEU) shows that accelerating a fertility decline has the potential to enable the country to reap the benefits of a demographic dividend, which refers to how improved health and reduced fertility can drive economic growth. When a country experiences better health outcomes and fewer births, …
Human-wildlife conflict is an issue of pressing conservation concern, particularly when it involves threatened species, and accurately identifying the causes of such conflict is fundamental to developing effective resolution strategies. This report investigated attitudes of Maasai and Barabaig pastoralists towards wildlife in central Tanzania, with particular emphasis on five focal …
• An acute water crisis has sparked fears about the survival of thousands of hippos in Tanzania's Katavi National Park. The shortage is being blamed on farmers upstream of the Katuma river diverting water for irrigation purposes. The hippo essentially requires water deep enough to submerge a large part of …
tanzania has become the first African country to start producing a new type of long-lasting bednet that could help significantly reduce deaths from malaria. The bednet is made from specially designed polyester that incorporates insecticide into the material's molecular structure. Unlike a conventional bednet, which needs to be sprayed with …
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (fao) has promised "substantial financial support' to help Tanzania dispose of about 1,000 tonnes of pesticides stored in the country's warehouses. These chemicals had come from developed nations, mostly through foreign aid programmes. The government's announcement about the fao assistance followed allegations of "excessive negligence' …
The detrimental effects of dynamite fishing, use of seine nets and coral mining are telling on Tanzania's coastal reefs. To reduce the damage, the Tanzanian government has commissioned environmental experts to evaluate the destruction and propose resurrection measures. The government's National Integrated Coastal Management Policy got underway in April 2003 …
THIS much-awaited report highlights the plight of the poor in these countries. The disparity between haves and have-nots have been documented in detail. The statistics are well highlighted. Take for example the painful fact that approximately 40 per cent of the population in India, Lesotho, Gambia, Tanzania, and several countries …
God's Garden For the first time in tropical Africa, a government is planning to create a 52 square mile park to safeguard the region's floral beauty. This park on the remote Kitulo Plateau, to be added to the country's 12 existing national parks, will house rare orchids, wild flowers, unique …
The Tanzanian authorities seized more than a thousand elephant tusks stolen by poachers at the Dar es Salaam port recently. According to the police, two Tanzanians had been arrested following the haul of 1,255 tusks in two suburban homes. However, it is not clear where the tusks had originated. Poaching …
Following the call given by Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (leat) for an independent investigation into alleged killings in 1996 of artisanal miners at Bulyanhulu gold mine in Kahama, the Tanzanian police recently raided the offices of leat in Dar es Salaam and searched the homes of two leat attorneys, seizing …
The United Nations Development Programme (undp) is launching a new initiative for conserving Mount Kilimanjaro by involving communities who live around the mountain. "Under the aegis of the project, we will work closely with these communities to ensure that the mountain resources are used in a sustainable manner,' said undp …
Wild orchids of Tanzania are about to vanish because of their large-scale commercial exploitation, states the Wildlife Conservation Society (wcs). According to wcs , popularity of orchids in Zambia has led to their overexploitation. "Millions of orchids are being virtually strip-mined from Tanzania's southern highlands and at current rates many …
One third of Mount Kilimanjaro's ice fields have completely melted in the last two decades and the rest of the mountain's ice could disappear by 2015, says Lonnie Thompson, a professor at the us -based Ohio State University, who made an aerial survey of the mountain's peak. He attributed the …
The sarcoptic mange (an itching disease that afflicts hairy and wooly animals) epidemic that killed several infant chimpanzees a few years ago in Tanzania's Gombe National Park is "most likely over", according to the director of chimpanzee research there. Shadrack Kamenya of the Jane Goodall Institute told the African Wildlife …
The wildebeest population at Serengeti National Park, has not recovered from a drought that killed 25 per cent of the herd five years ago. Scientists, monitoring the population dynamics of the migratory wildebeest in Serengeti, northern Tanzania, say recent data confirm that the population of the animals, had stabilised at …
