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Kuipoteza Serengeti
Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele
Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele, is a Kiswahili translation of the report Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever. Based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws, the report reveals how Tanzania’s Maasai are facing appalling levels of human rights abuses in the name of conservation and the promotion of safari tourism in the Ngorongoro and Loliondo regions.
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Losing the Serengeti
The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever
Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving them into smaller and smaller areas and creating a stifling map of confinement.

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Mongabay
L’UNESCO accusée de soutenir des violations des droits humains dans les parcs africains
Depuis des siècles, les Massaïs vivant dans la zone de conservation de Ngorongoro se déplaçent en grande partie librement sur les vastes étendues de savane à la recherche d’eau et de pâturages, sans aucune restriction. Mais, en 1979, quand l’UNESCO est entrée en scène, beaucoup de choses ont changé. Notamment, la mise en place de…
The Canary
UNESCO World Heritage Day is a celebration of violent colonial conservation against Indigenous people
Thursday 18 of April marks the annual United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Day. This year however, an Indigenous rights non-profit is exposing UNESCO for the racist colonial institution that it is. Significantly, the group is calling out the colonial conservation model that sits at the heart of the UNESCO designated World Heritage Sites. On top of this, the Canary has dug up more evidence revealing the systemic violence, displacement, and abuse of Indigenous and local communities living at a number of these sites.
The Canary
Tanzanian Maasai Visit Europe to Urge Action over Their Eviction from Their Lands
Tracy KeelingA delegation of Maasai representatives from Tanzania are travelling around Europe in May. They’re seeking international support to stop ongoing evictions and abuses against their people. The Tanzanian government has been evicting Maasai from their ancestral lands, in an area called Loliondo, since 2022. It has apparently done so in order to lease their land to a UAE-based trophy hunting company called Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC), which has operated in the country for decades.
Le Monde diplomatique
Tanzania Forces the Maasai From Their Land To Make Way for Trophy Hunters and Tourists
The Maasai have suffered over a century of forced evictions from their ancestral lands in Tanzania in the name of both game hunting and conservation. Has recognition that global biodiversity goals depend on indigenous peoples come too late?