Tanzania
Tanzania is 1.7 times the size of France. From this websites point of view it is a country well worth visiting. With some of the best known savannah ecosystems including the Serengeti and its incredible migration of 2 million wildebeest (along with many other species), it is on a lot of peoples bucket list.
Less well known reserves, but arguably with higher conservation value, include what was the Selous reserve (Nyerere national park) which contains 5000 of the continents remaining lions, as well as the Udzungwa national park, Gombe Stream, a small reserve with a group of Chimpanzees and Mahale, which still hosts about 1000 but is far more remote and harder to get to.
Supporting between 1/3 and 1/4 of the worlds remaining lions, as well a a vast array of wilderness, but also hosting some of the worst hit reserves in terms of poaching in recent years, Tanzania is essential to conservation. Thankfully, as tourism makes up a large part of their economy there is also a great need to be effective in conservation for the well-being of the people of the country.
We have both visited this country, but also have a range of links for your future travel.
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Tanzania reimposes a rule banning export of animals, one day after they rescinded the ban put in place 2016
- Tim
- June 9, 2022
USA has given a hunter permission to bring back body parts of a lion from Tanzania
- Tim
- September 15, 2019
Lion (Tanzania)
- Tim
- February 17, 2018
Review of Udzungwa National Park, Tanzania
- Tim
- January 12, 2018
Review of Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
- Tim
- January 9, 2018
African forest elephants are now considered critically endangered, and African savannah elephants endangered, are the Asiatic elephants safe? And are we killing one of the few hopes humanity has? A guide to what remains
- Tim
- May 29, 2023
Chevron has created a large set of carbon offsets and they appear worthless, says research
- Tim
- May 27, 2023
Might a raise in the minimum age for lion trophy hunting help?
- Tim
- March 11, 2023
News in brief – roundup of politics in the way of action, fossil fuel problems and positive moves
- Tim
- November 24, 2022
Guard dogs to save Namibian Cheetah?
- Tim
- September 29, 2022
African wild dogs live at low densities naturally, what happens if climate change makes survival harder?
- Tim
- July 13, 2022
I am disgusted to be British after the latest move in parliament – hunting trophy import ban to be axed, but if we are ending the ban the British government must take responsibility
- Tim
- March 15, 2022
Lockdown has shown the perils of overreliance on tourism: what to do
- Tim
- January 12, 2022
It would seem that human mothers are not the only ones to take a keen interest in their offspring’s partners
- Tim
- January 10, 2022
The website was hacked! nothing lost, and wildlife tourism to Africa can return
- Tim
- October 7, 2021
Did I miss the start of the end of the canned lion hunt?
- Tim
- September 14, 2021
A reduction of African great apes of 80% by 2050?
- Tim
- June 25, 2021
Rooting out corruption is necessary to halt the illegal wildlife trade
- Tim
- April 7, 2021
Lion population expected to half in the wild during the next 15-20 years
- Tim
- March 20, 2021
It seems that the mara river is threatened as well as the ecosystem
- Tim
- March 19, 2021