Conservation and environmental news & publications: Tanzania

The Yangtze River - the Chinese Eden of biodiversity.

21 Aug 2008
Flow plan for less talk and more action as climate change hits rivers
Managers and stakeholders in freshwater systems need to stop talking about adaptation to climate change and start doing it, WWF told the World Water Week symposium in Stockholm today.
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13 Jun 2008
VACANCY: MARA RIVER BASIN PROGRAMME M&E OFFICER
The WWF-EARPO Freshwater Programme has 4 major programmes (with several sub-projects) in priority geographic areas in East Africa. One of these is the Mara River Basin. » Read more

13 Jun 2008
VACANCY: POLICY PROGRAMME OFFICER
The WWF-EARPO Freshwater Programme has 4 major programmes (with several subprojects) in priority geographic areas in East Africa. These are the Mara River Basin, Ruaha River Basin, the Eastern Rift Valley and the Albertine Rift. » Read more

Rhino translocation is a highly skilled procedure.

14 Mar 2008
More of Africa urged to boost rhino numbers

After bringing Africa’s black rhinos spectacularly back from the brink of extinction one of the world’s most successful conservation programmes is to celebrate its first decade by seeking to extend its operations to more of Africa.

“What we know from looking back at the last ten years is that sustained conservation can and does work,” says George Kampamba, WWF International’s African Rhino Programme Coordinator.

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Leatherback turtle caught up in a French Tuna purse-seine fishery in the Atlantic ocean.

12 Feb 2008
New guide to reducing bycatch goes online
As a service to the long-term sustainability of both fish stocks and fishing communities, WWF has established an online resource providing up-to-date information on bycatch (the capture of non-target creatures in fishing gear) and how to reduce it.

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Wild meat hunter with dogs near Lugufu refugee camp, Tanzania

22 Jan 2008
Search for "night time spinach" threatens wildlife, local livelihoods

Meat hungry refugees are sustaining a thriving wildlife poaching trade in Tanzania, according to a report by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.

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Two little leatherback turtles are heading to the sea. Rising sea levels will threaten their beach habitat

10 Sep 2007
Sea turtles threatened by rising seas
Sea turtles lay their eggs into the beach sand. Many return to the exact beaches that they were hatched to lay the eggs for the next generation of turtles. But sea level rise due to climate change threatens beach habitat. A new study predicts that turtle reproduction will be hard hit. » Read more

The TRAFFIC report documents alarming levels of illegal logging and exports of forest products from Tanzania. Sawmill, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania.

25 May 2007
Tanzania's disappearing timber revenue
Millions of dollars worth of timber revenue is being lost each year in Tanzania because of poor governance and rampant corruption in the forestry sector, according to a report by TRAFFIC International. » Read more

A herd of elephants on the move in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. The female in the
middle of the herd has exceptionally long tusks.

13 Apr 2007
Factsheet: African Elephant
A powerful symbol of nature, the world's largest land animal is still under threat. » Read more

Treefrogs are among the 1000 endemic species found in the Eastern Arc Mountains.

17 Jan 2007
New studies find high species concentration in east African mountains
Studies published this month in a scientific journal document an amazingly high concentration of species unique to the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya. » Read more

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