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The year is going to an end, and YETs 2011 will finalize their work and be ready for engagement in CSOs and other areas. This small survey is the follow up we talked about in my class and is meant for YETs 2011 only. It will give us the first impression of how you have experienced the program. We will use the information for further development and changes to the better. In order for you to be

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Last Thursday I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of the magnificent Living Beehive at the Durban Botanic Gardens. Durban’s mayor, James Nxumalo, attended the event and promised to nurture the structure as a lasting legacy of COP 17.The Living Beehive was the brainchild of the South African National Biodiversity Institute’s Kristal Maze, along with the cutting-edge design work of

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Farmers, African Farmers, Resilient Farmers. On this Farmers Day, we had the African Farmers 'Kamunkunji' or Parliament if you like. Farmers from Lesotho, Swaziland, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia among others attended and actively participated in the event.What wowed me was the active participation that farmers had this evening. It is enough that they had activities all day and then

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Global warming, global warming, global warmingWhat global warming to talk aboutWhat good is in global warming?What beauty is in global warming?Nothing but destructionThe protective ozone layer have been destroyedThe sun’s rays falls directly on usClimatic conditions have been affectedWhat beauty is in global warming?Nothing but determinationGlobal warming who created you?You have opened the

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The idea of urban tourism was introduced in the year 2004-2005 by Arusha Municipal Council and Kimandolu Hill was selected to be among one of Tourism attractions. The project aimed at creating income generating activities to the council by introducing attractions of different kinds on the hill so as to be good destination place for tourist before they go to other tour places.It was proposed that

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Tanzania like many other countries across the globe realizes the effects of environmental degradation. The effects of environmental degradation are well documented. Thanks to many efforts at regional and local levels, Tanzania established the environmental management Act, 2004(EMA) to regulate matters affecting the environment.The authority is a step in the right direction but complementary

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The importance of fisheries resource in the Lake Victoria basin cannot be over emphasized as it provides direct employment to about 300000 Tanzanians and other indirect employment to about three million people. Its contribution to export volume dotes to Tshs. 194 billion. This is according to various reports released in conferences. In spite of this crucial importance, fisheries resources are

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Robanda village is threatening to withdraw from Ikona Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that is made up of five villages of Serengeti District in Mara Region, describing it as helpless.The village average annual income has decreased from 350m/- to 10m/- after joining the WMA bordering the world famous Serengeti National Park and game reserves of Ikorongo and Grumeti. Other villages forming the WMA

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My name is mother Earth. The mother and father of all mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, failures and heroes.I am here to register both my annoyances and grievances caused by my spouse called Humanity!!!!Hey you Mr. Man! Don’t you know that you depend on my loving and that without me you are nothing? But i don’t feel our love is any more mutual, because it seems to you i am no longer

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Jukumu la kulinda Mali asili za nchi ni la kila mmoja wetu. Kila Mtanzania ana jukumu la kuhakikisha kwamba mali asili za nchi zinalindwa na kusimamiwa vizuri ili hata vizazi vijavyo viweze kunufaika na mali asili zilizopo nchini. Mbali na jukumu la ulinzi wa mali asili kuwa ni la kila Mtanzania, kuna watu wengine ambao kimsingi wamepewa dhamana ya usimamizi na ulinzi wa mali asili hizi, ambao

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Agricultural land is getting scarce as the population grows and the high pressure on land for agricultural production sometimes leads to cleaning of natural vegetation and cultivation on steep slopes.Soil erosion in these areas is very high. Many farmers also grow crops or keep livestock in a way that deplets the soil nutrients and/or make it prone to erosion.Practices like removing or burning

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Women in Loovikuny village encounter hardship situation because of climate change to the area which caused by drought. In earlier time 1970’s there was no such problem but due to the population in the area the situation was changed and cause many problem to women and children who are the working group in Maasai culture.I got an opportunity to have a field visit with the Mazingira Network Tanzania

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We can look at this from a few different angles. Suppose that we were to take a bucket and scoop up some water, including a bit of muddy sediment, from a lake. The water is a bit murky because the sediment has been mixed with the water and is in motion. If someone was to ask what is inside of the water, would we be able to tell them? We might be able to make some good guesses. Maybe there's a

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There has been misconception about NGO’s and donors. Many people failed to understand to whom these NGOs are accountable. I have been touched by this subject and fix on to disclose the hidden mysterious to Donors, NGO’s members and those who wish to have NGOs in the near future since having this piece of information, I believe, will enforce the stakeholders to change their attitude positively and

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Few months ago we had witnessed four Lories from Hyundai company been given to Temeke Municipal council for caring wastes to the dumps. The main objective was to make the city clean, attractive, and conducive for human beings to live and enjoy the environment as in other developed city’s in the world, “Congratulation”.The Temeke municipal Director said “the lories could help to solve the problem

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High percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Rural communities generally rely on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and livestock for their livelihoods. Many rural workers remain poor because they receive low earnings and live and work in precarious conditions, are vulnerable to health and other shocks and have little access to risk-coping mechanisms such as insurance or social

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Unlike other wards of Meru district which COMECA is implementing the project on the 1998 forest policy training, Songoro does not have that much forest degradation as compared to her neighbors, Nkwarisambu and Sing'isi. The hills of this periphery ward looks well conserved, the trees and other vegetation looking younger in most parts. When you are here, u can hardly feel that scorching sun which

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A recent training on Community Based Forest Management at Seela village of Singisi ward in the new Meru district has brought into attention that sometimes our environment could be well conserved if we could equip and train our local leaders with conservation skills. Seela which makes up one of the two villages in Sing'isi ward, boarders Mount Meru Forest Reserve, and has experienced serious

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The Mkupuka Village Natural Resource Committee found near Ikwiriri in Rufiji district has proven the fact that it is possible for communities to protect their own forest resources. It was 3rd September of this year (2011) when we caught timber harvested illegally in our forest (Ngumburuni Forest) said Mkupuka village chairperson Mr Issa Moyogani. I have reported to the village council and we

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Pugu and Kazimzumbwi forest reserve is a big resource which is available at Ilala district in Dar es Salaam and Kisarawe in coastal region. Different environmental expert claims that, those reserves have resources including different animals and plants. These forests reserves are a source of Kizinga river which are the one of river which preserves water downwards in Dar es Salaam regionPugu and

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Mbeya city has wards environmental committees which were formed in 2007 but they don’t have full mandate in operation as their cry. The committees comprise of members from each street within the ward. They were formed in order to supervise the environmental conservation and protection.I visited Ruanda and Ilomba wards environmental committees where I met with its members from streets. The

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Agro forestry includes practices that involve a close association of crops and trees, animal and pasture and this helps in environmental conservation because small area can be used to accommodate farming activities that one has planned to conduct such as growing pasture and grazing animals in the same area, this reduce the movement of animals from one area to another hence decrease the rate of

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‘Processing a hectare of tobacco may consume woodfuel equivalent to one hectare of savannah woodland’’It is very true that tobacco is essentially a smallholder enterprise in Tanzania. There are so far more than 56,500families, with more than 339,000 people, engaged in tobacco growing. The production involves the use of indigenous species which are Brachystegia, Jubernadia, Erythophreum africanum,

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Natural forest that are found in different places in our country has been destroyed while they are the main source of important services that we depend much in our well being such as the source of water, fresh air, rainfall and climate regulation in general.Chimala village is one of the villages that is adjacent to Chimala natural forest reserve that has been destroyed due to livestock keepers

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This was discovered during the Young Environmentalists Trainees (YET’s) visit to Simanjiro community radio station and the Maasai community surrounding the radio station. The production manager Wilbert Kiwale informed YET’s that there were several programs of environment education by the radio to the Maasai community though from his statement and the observation we made during the visit to the

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Several times from different actors including KIMWAM, community in Mtwara cost zone had been provided with marine resources conservation knowledge that contributed to minimise the rate of marine degradation particularly through white corals harvesting for lime production, uses of ‘Kokoro’, bombing, uses of poisons and many more.However, degradation now is on other form. Community has moved their

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Among many other activities which ensure forest maintenance and protection, boundary clearance is the best method that ensures the security of the forest by restricting and minimizing wild fires for the sustainableUtilization of the forest.Currently Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST) in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism under the Forestry and

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Vultures are large birds of prey famously known as the best death twisters back into life as they consume dead animals to earn their living. Each year the first Saturday of September it is an International Vulture’s Awareness Day (IVAD) with the aim of raising awareness on vulture’s conservation. Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST) as ambassadors of birds conservation, are expecting

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There is some local saying which states that, if we conserve our environment properly, it will conserve us as well, but nobody cares. Instead we are putting our life at risks for not conserving our environment. We experience problems such as diseases like cholera, unpleasant smell, excessive hotness, drought, bush fires and sometimes death.It seems that human being are the one who destruct the

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Most people do not know the role played by journalist in promoting environment conservation. Many community members have negative attitude toward them as they think that they are liars, but in real sense, Journalists are the ones providing us with information about different environment issues. Journalists not only create awareness to community members but also advocate and expose various evil

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Agroforestry is a land use system that integrates trees (wwody perenials), crops and/or animals in a system on the same piece of land in order to get higher productivity, greater economic returns and more social benefits on a sustainable basis. This can be done by planting trees and crops together in the same field at the same time, or they can be planted in a rotational system.Agroforestry

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Since independent 1961 Tanzania have formulated very good environmental laws, policies and strategies such as Forest act no 14 (2002), environmental management act no 20, 2004, fisheries act no 22 of 2003, wildlife conservation act no 12 of 1974 and policies includes environmental policy of 1997, foresty policy of 1998, wildlife of 1998 and tourism policy of 1999. Not only that but also

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The whole world is captured with the highest stage of Development. This stage is Globalization. Globalization can be defined as rapidly increasing complex interactions between societies, cultures, economies, technologies, governance, institutions and individual world wide. Globalization is approaching to its climax of development, the environment is completely destroyed. The situation of

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Agro forestry is becoming increasingly important throughout the world. Data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations confirms that while the number of trees in forests is still declining every year, the number of trees on farms is steadily increasing. Agroforestry is not a new practice. It has been used by subsistence farmers throughout most of the world for many

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Forest is important in our lives. it provides medicine, firewood, timber, charcoal making, as well as it also absorb carbon dioxide which has adverse impact in our health, attracts rainfalls which helps our crops to grow well as result contribute in national economy. On the other hand forest is home of many living things such as wild animals, birds, plants, natural vegetation and other non

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WHY IS IT SO HARD TO PRESERVE OUR ENVIRONMENT? This question was answered by the Director of Environment Division at the Vice Presidents Office during a discussion with LHRC officials including the current and former YET. The LHRC members were majorly concerned by the increasing destruction of the environment by the investors. According to director it’s known that most investors are not doing

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VNRC is the group of people who has been selected by the village members of the community to be responsible in managing of natural resources available in the village on behalf of the entire village. The Forest Act of 2002 reinforces the role of the Village Councils through the formation of Village Forest Committees (which are generally now known as either Village Environmental Committees (VECs),

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The problems associated with climate change affects people’s livelihood in almost aspects of life i.e. socially, economically, and culturally. Climate change brought changes in temperature, floods drought and rise of the sea level. In Tanzania there are some evidence which shows the climate change is there and continuing taking place particularly in our surrounding areas.Basing on temperature,

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In Mtwara and other part of our country, community has been affected by allowance acquisitions as factor for training and meeting attending. That is even in activities that benefit an individual person such as training or a small meeting if you will not provide them with allowances very few will attend you meeting. This was an issue when we visited BMU at Namgogoli Village on 23rd August 2011

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Hivi karibuni kuliibuka sakata la kutoroshwa kwa wanyama hai nchini kwa kutumia ndege ya jeshi la Qatar uliofanyika katika uwanja wa ndege wa kimataifa wa Kilimanjaro( KIA).Kwa habari zilizosikika miongoni mwa vyombo vya habari wanyama hai waliotoroshwa kwa njama ni zaidi ya 120 na thamani yao ni takriban sh. Milioni 6.9 ambao ni ndege hai na jumla ya fedha za wanyama wote hai hao ikiwa ni

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BMUs plays a great role in sense of marine conservation and community development and this is only if they are well formulated and given full mandate to control their resources. BMUs has very big roles to play, such as undertaking monitoring activities, licence inspections, inspection to illegal fishing, protecting resources from all forms of pollution, resources data collection, environmental

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Every time I get the opportunity to speak with communities in Meru district, particularly the rural communities over issues of community participation for effective management of forest resources, I note a great confusion that lies within the minds of these key stakeholders.The confusion is solely raised by their lack of understanding of whether local communities’ participation in management of

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This question was answered by the Director of Environment Division at the Vice Presidents Office during a discussion with LHRC officials including the current and former YET. The LHRC members were majorly concerned by the increasing destruction of the environment by the investors. According to director it’s known that most investors are not doing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as per the

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On august, 2011 I had a field visit to Muleba District aiming at training different community groups on matters pertaining to conservation of natural resources. A total of fifty (50) participants from five different groups were trained on Fisheries policy/Act, Environmental rights and their responsibilities as defined by different Laws/Acts safeguarding the environment/natural resources. On

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The process of seeking support from UNESCO to recognize parts of eastern arc mountain to be among word heritage sites started mid 1990s, but now it seems as if the dream of environmental stakeholders to achieve their goals has stunned by government. The Daily News of Thursday, March 31, 2011, reported the president’s visit to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, he ordered the

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If there are still those who hold the mentality that the local communities know nothing and therefore do not care about the environment, the the villagers in Nkwarisambu village have proved them wrong. At a time when the environment dominates the global agenda the community in Nkwarisambu have taken a further step to fire the village government over the mismanagement of Nkwarisambu Hill Forest.

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ORS FM is the community radio at Simanjiro district. The founder of this station is Mr. Martin Karungi, the Maasai elite from orkonerei village in the particular district. The Radio started to air its programs in 22nd June 2002 with the mission of promoting local artists and rise cases concerning the Maasai society. Mr. Baraka the radio Manager said, “ORS radio has helped to educate the Maasai

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A total of 50 participants from different community groups dealing with various issues in Muleba District were trained on Fisheries policy of 1997, Fisheries Act No.22 of 2003, Environmental Management Act No.20 of 2004 and other Laws/Acts safeguarding the environment . The 5-day training which takes place from August 1 to August 5, 2011 included environmental rights and responsibilities of

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In the recent past whenever a person talks about Ngorongoro, the perception of majority will think of Loliondo not because it is the headquarters of the province but because of “babu” (the retired pastor Ambilikile Mwaisapila who is said to be curing chronic patients in Samunge village in Loliondo). Ngorongoro is a province blessed not only with “babu” but also with abundant natural resources

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It was on 5th June 2011 I was attending the ward meeting in Kimandolu. The Ward Councilor Mr, Malla was talking to his people on the promises he made during campaigns. The meeting was held near the ward offices at Tindigani ground. This, was the first meeting since he was elected, many people gathered for the meeting with happy faces as they anxiously awaited to listen to Mr.Malla in order to

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The environmental laws are being violated without any measures. It was on 2nd June 2011 when I was invited by City Environmental Management Officer in Mbeya City to attend cleanliness of the Ilomba ward so as to celebrate the environmental day as a call by the United Nations but the environmental laws were not implemented. Many people in Ilomba ward responded positively and join their hands to

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The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Mr Ezekiel Maige, has warned the tribal leaders that unless a way is found to conserve the forests then he will have no choice but to order the eviction of people from a number of Maasai villages. Their leaders reject the claims and highlight the fact that Maasai community lands are among the most diverse for wildlife in Africa. This is not the

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Corrals are animals in the phylum Cnidarians. Corrals found in marine environment are shallow water that reserve enough light. Maximum 60 to 90m they live at the place where no too much sed. Corrals grow in different shapes such as mushroom shape, cabbage shape, brain shape and treelike shape. Corrals are photosynthetic by help of the symbiotic mutuality micro-algae dinoglagelate namely

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Kazimzumbwi forest reserves is located in Pwani region at Kisarawe district, the forest has 4887 ha (35.5 km2) area. It was established in 1936 and declared to be the forest reserve, since then the forest provides number of ecological services such as high biodiversity (flora and fauna) and water for the communities living adjacent the forest.In addition to that the service provided by the forest

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Tanzania has lost thousands of hectares of forests through deforestation and degradation arising mainly from anthropogenic factors such as unsustainable harvesting of forest products, agriculture expansion and wild fires and mining.The Pugu and Kazimzumbwi National Forest Reserves covering a total area of 7272 hectares have experienced very high rates of deforestation and degradation as compared

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As we are celebrating the international year of forest, there are still problems on the way our forests are being protected. The forest officials have been accused of not following the laws and harassing the villagers near forest reserves making them not only to see the benefit of the existence of the forest but also start hating and making efforts to destroy instead of protecting our forests. In

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The researchers described the Serengeti as "a rare and iconic example of an ecosystem driven by a large mammal migration". That annual north-to-south trek involves about 1.5 million animals, including wildebeest and zebra.As the animals travel, they dump vast quantities of urine and dung across the land, fertilizing plant growth, while the trampling of hooves also prevents bush from over-growing

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Controversial plans to build a tarmac road across the Serengeti National Park have been scrapped after warnings that it could devastate wildlife.The Tanzanian government planned a two-lane highway across the park to connect Lake Victoria with coastal ports. But studies showed it could seriously affect animals such as wildebeest and zebra, whose migration is regarded as among the wonders of the

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The United Nations (UN) marked the world Environmental Day (WED) on Sunday, 5th June 2001 by calling on the international community to invest an additional 40 billion U.S dollars annually in the forestry sector to halve deforestation rates by 2030.The UN Environmental Program (UNEP) said such massive investments, equivalent of two-thirds more than what is spent on the sector today, will increase

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We urgently need to launch a movement to stop cruelty against old men. From April this year I have weeping seeing, those heartless protectors bounding old men in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya out of office, in total disregard of their contribution over the decades to creating strong governments, controlling bad elements in society, building strong economic etc. this cruelty against veteran rules

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Kimandolu (Enigma endolu) is a Maasai word meaning fire axe. In 1980’s the area at Kimandolu was covered by thick forest, one could hear reflection sound like someone chopping firewood from the forest, hence the origin of the name “Kimandolu”. The mountain is located 4km South of Arusha town. Before Arusha was established as a city, the mountain was within Kimandolu ward surrounded by four

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The escalating cost of living that is consigning many Tanzanians to object poverty is directly linked to the fact that for five decades since independence in 1961 we have failed to develop our country. Tanzania has grown poorer and weaker with each divisive policy and programmes’, our self-seeking leaders have designed to fight each other, instead of collaborating to overcome poverty, our main

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Not many people know the seriousness and extent of the problem of dynamite fishing but it suffices to say that it extends along the coastal area and some extent in the inland water. Dynamite fishing is among illegal fishing which has a great impacts to our natural resources as well as environment, this is because once it is practised it brings effects not only to the fish but also to other

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They pass the commodity upwards as they hum traditional repertoires, oblivious of the danger posed by wild animals searching for the same water. About 200 pupils at Park Nyigoti division, Serengeti district, risk dropping out of school due to the prevailing harsh drought conditions.Before 2.00 am, young female voices ring out loudly punctuated by banging of plastic jerry cans to alert each

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Just imagine you wake up one day and no single wildlife specie is anywhere to be seen. All national parks have become bare lands with no single wildlife. No tourist is therefore coming to this country. All tourists’ hotels, lodges, tour safari companies, have all stopped down. No such employments anymore. Everything in the tourism industry has gone. No wildlife. No national parks. The percentage

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Species in Lake Burunge are in danger because of the farming activities that are taking place along the shores of the lake. Lake Burunge is found at Babati district in Manyara region; This Lake has an area of about 40sqkm and its depth ranges from 7M to 8M. There has been farming activities taking place near the banks of the lake which makes some of the chemicals like pesticide and artificial

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We urgently need to launch a movement to stop cruelty against old men. From April this year I have weeping seeing, those heartless protectors bounding old men in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya out of office, in total disregard of their contribution over the decades to creating strong governments, controlling bad elements in society, building strong economic etc. this cruelty against veteran rules

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The polluted world: Nyakalabe village!Destruction of the environment is destruction of life. This was confirmed when the team from Corporate and Environment Unit under the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) visited Nyakalabe village in Geita near the Geita Gold Mine (GGM). On our arrival in the village we first met with a teacher who was eager to inform us on the environmental pollutions

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Communities living along river Ihanga that flows its water between the city are miserable. They have been dumping the garbage’s and other remains of the materials like rusted irons, remains from carpentry, plastic bags and rugs in the river. As per the observation I made along the river from Isyesye village to Iyunga, there are garbages that are taken by water and deposited in other places along

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The forest is a wide area of land covered by trees and inhabited animals in their natural habitats. Usually the benefits derived from the forest do not go to only its inhabitants but also to a large extent all humans. Some of these benefits include the provision of food, formation of cloud resulting in rainfall, creation of employment and medicinal herbs.Others are the provision of foreign

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The ongoing debate on the construction of the Serengeti highway may result our country into great risk of loosing one of its important world heritage sites. There is a great need for the Government of Tanzania to put extra efforts to rescue the Serengeti from losing her unique biodiversity. This can be achieved through taking alternative plans and initiate views from different stakeholders on

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Out of curiosity I recently ran into a publication by Sikika and Policy forum, titled unnecessary expenditure. This is a normal issue to a Tanzania government. Unnecessary expenditure focuses the way to spend money.The idea is very simple; the government of poor people should also moderately spend money on what matters most. In other words, the booklet aims at examining how much fund was being

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The aquatic species in Lake Burunge found Manyara region are under the threat of being decreasing and disappearing. This is due to the human activities such as agricultural fishing and livestock keeping which are taking place on the shores.The agricultural activities are associated with the use of fertilizers and agrochemicals; when rains comes it washes away those chemicals downstream the lake

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The "brown Lake" as some people refer to Lake Burunge is facing imminent extinction! The reason it is referred to as the brown lake is because its main habitants are the catfish known to stir mud and hence the brown colour. This lake is located in Babati district and it’s among two other lakes in the district which are Lake Manyara and Babati. Young Environmentalists Trainees (YETs) during their

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In April this month an investor burned to death a Tanzanian he suspected to be a thief at south beach hotel in Kigamboni. The incident raised many questions, among others being the legality of construction of hotels in the beaches and their effect to the fishery sector. This was a question raised by many and especially human rights and environmental activists.Tanzania’s laws though not strictly

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There is several studies which have been conducted to identify various solution if natural resources are managed sustainable and equitably. One of the approaches which has been adopted in different areas and proved success is participatory natural resource management. This is quite different to the community living around Lake Burunge in Babati. Babati district council decided to close down the

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On the way to Singida through Bahi road, there is a huge damp. The area is being polluted with plastic bags and plastic bottles.Scarps and other dirty materials are damped everyday. Always a heavy smoke is being seen from this damp towards people’s residence areas if these rubbishes are burnt.Dodoma municipal has other official established damps for damping rubbishes for example Mlezi damp and

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Statistics have it that in many developing countries more than 80% of the total energy consumed by people derives from forestry. In Tanzania alone, annual charcoal consumption is about one million tones. Half of that charcoal goes to Dar es Salaam where 73% of households use it as their first choice.Very unfortunately, almost all charcoal is produced in the rural areas by harvesting the natural

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The whole world celebrates environmental day each year. On 5th June, 2011 it will be celebrated at global level. Truly the situation of environment in Tanzania is terrible. Destructive activities increase day after a day. Deforestation, overgrazing, bush fire and forest fires, charcoal burning and environmental pollution has become dominant activities in most of Tanzania societies. Will

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2011 is the International Year of Forests (IYF) and celebrations were officially launched on 2nd February, 2011 during the 9th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests in New York. Forests issues are essential links to livelihoods, addressing climate change and other environmental challenges. But they are also cornerstones of our economies, whose real value has all too often been invisible

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Buswelu village is in beautiful mountain scenery, has good and fertile soils, good people, a lot of water springs and catchment which makes it a good place and one of the precious places in Ilemela District, Mwanza Region. Despite the above attractions, the inhabitants of Buswelu village still rely on unsafe drinking water sources however there are many piped wells in the area. Most of the water

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Burunge Lake is among of the three lakes in Manyara region. The lake has 40 square kilometer and it has average depth of 8 miters. In spite of having other species such as tilapia, rockets, and catfish is the dominant specie in this lake. Catfish can be identified by their whisker-like barbells round the mouth which they use to locate food in dark water, and they vary from small, peaceful species

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“The rate at which fish is being consumed is posing a threat to the existence of fish in Lake Burunge”. This has been observed at Lake Burunge in Bahati District where by some fish species which are found in this lake such as cut fish, aprochromus, Oreochromis, tilapia and rocket have all been threatened by human activities around the lake. Several species of these have been greatly overfished

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After the collapse of socialism policy in the word, Tanzania had no other option than to accept the free market policy from the western countries in 1980s, the policy which has dominated the universe.With that policy the politicians have been encouraging investors from various parts of the world to invest in different sectors such as mining, Tourism, Agriculture, Transport, and Communication.

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It was during my field at Babati district in Manyara region. The objective of the trip was to study and learn about environmental conservation in the region. I visited three villages; Halla, Ayasanda and Haraa. When I was in Halla village I met an old man known as Mr. Joachim John, who was born in 1937 in southern part of Tanzania. Mr. Joachim started to preserve the environment in 1985 in Halla

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Oooh Halla! Solution to Galapo, Kashi, Jundahida and Jadamari. Availability of water through out the year. The great Halla every one should bow to you, you bring back happiness to us, ooh Halla the great!!. Presence of trees attracts water table to be near to the earth surface which leads to the formation of spring in the forest.The catchments area develop where by the volume of water increase

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Declining of environmental conservation in Tanzania has been partly due to poverty as one of the factors, this is because many people at local level cut down trees for charcoal, firewood and for house building without replanting other trees. It is also believed that the rate of planting trees is very low due to low income of the people and awareness on the importance of environmental conservation

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It was in my field visit at Babati district in Manyara region when I got a golden opportunity to visit about three villages that is Ayasanda, Halla and Harra as well. In the villages I witnessed an old man and some other community members putting their extra efforts on conserving their forests.Mr. Joachim Tambo aged (74) was an old man I met in Halla, he put much efforts on planting different

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An estimated 90 percent of Tanzania’s energy consumption is coming from wood fuels. Charcoal is the single largest source of household energy in urban areas as it considered as cheap and easy to transport, distribute and store. Between 2001-2007, the proportion of households in Dar es Salaam using charcoal raised from 47 percent to 71 percent. Approximately half of Tanzanian annual consumption of

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Community Based Forest Management takes place on village land or private land, and the trees are owned and managed by either a village council [through a village natural resources committee] a group or an individual. All the costs and benefits relating to management and utilization are carried by the owner. The role of the central government is minimal and the district has a role only in

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Participatory Forest Management (PFM) refers to processes and mechanism that enable those people who have a direct stake in forest resources to be part of decision making in all aspects of forest management, from managing resources to formulating and implementing institutional framework.Deforestation occurs for many reasons, trees or derived charcoal are used as or sold for fuel or as timber

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The world's environment is at great risk today compared to some years ago. Human beings are witness of drying rivers, the raising of the sea level, increasing of heat and frequent occurrence of natural hazards; all these are caused by various Human activities. However, many people are still conducting their activities without environmental conscious, few individuals and groups of people haven

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For the societies along Mtwara coast belts oysters are famous fish type for their daily consumption. However, these fish category are very unique and important for wealth generation, this is due to availability and reproduction of peals within them that used for ornamental purpose.These fish are naturally found in the sea but nowadays fishermen/women in Collaboration with KIMWAM “Mtwara People’s

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On the way to Arusha through Kondoa road in Bahi district, there is a large natural forest known as Mtungutu. It is one of the largest forests in Dodoma region. It consists of various species of trees that endures semi arid climatic condition. It covers three villages; Zanka, Mundemu and Babayu. It also consist a variable species of wild animals like antelopes, hare, hyena, monkeys, squeals and

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Mkwaju is a large tree to 30 meters in diameter with an extensive dense crown. The short bole can be one meter in rough, grey; flaking and leaves is compound in hairy stalks to 15 cm, 10 to 18 pairs leaflets, dull green to 3 cm round the tips and base and veins raised.Flowers; buds reds, petals gold with red veins inn small bunches. Its fruits are pale brown sausage like, hairy pods about 10 cm,

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Tanzanian President nullifies application to grant Eastern Mountains as World Heritage SiteTanzania's President has rejected an application to place some mountains in the Eastern Arc under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage Site.The President, Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, nullified an application that was submitted to UNESCO by Tanzania's

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In recognition of the power of millions of individual actions, Earth Day 2011 organizes around a Billion Acts of Green; Personal, organizational and corporate pledges to live and act sustainably. “A Billion Acts of Green”, is the theme chosen for Earth Day on 22 April, 2011 to inspire and reward both simple individual acts, organizational and governmental initiatives that further the goal of

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More than 30 kinds of birds and their cry!!More than 30 species of birds within Mbeya city but it keeps decreasing yearly. The species include Sunbirds, Pied crow, Hammerkop, Black Kite, Olive Pigeon, African Mourning Dove, Common bulbul, White Browned Robin Chat, Variable Sunbird, Black and White Mannin,Yellow White-Eye, Amethyst Sunbird, Eastern Double Collared Sunbird, Tawny-Flanked Prinnia

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Ranges of mount Mporoto are located in Mbeya City-Tanzania. The mountain is covered by natural forest which is managed by the Government. In this forest there are different wild animals and one of them endemic specie known as KIPUNJE by its local name, and also at the top of this mountain there is a natural lake called lake IGOSI.The mountain started to lose its cover because of encroachments as

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THE LONG-BILLED TAILORBIRD Artisornis moreauiThe East Usambara Mountains are home to the critically endangered Long-billed Tailorbird Artisornis moreaui, one of the rarest birds in Tanzania. The specie has a global population restricted to the East Usambara Mountains in Tanzania and the Njesi plateau in northern Mozambique. It was discovered in the Amani Nature Reserve in 1930, though it is

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