Archiv: Tanzania


29.10.2020 - 00:49 [ France24 ]

Tanzania’s Magufuli seeks second presidential term as polls open amid fairness concerns

East Africa‘s third-largest economy has recorded average growth of close to 7% over the last four years, according to official figures, as the government invested billions of dollars in infrastructure including a new railway, a hydropower dam and planes for the national airline.

29.05.2018 - 23:02 [ WWF ]

WWF Expresses Deep Concern at Plans for Large-scale Logging in Selous Game Reserve

The Tanzania Forest Service has closed a tender for the sale of over 2.6 million trees that would result in the large-scale logging inside Selous Game Reserve, one of Africa’s most important wildernesses areas and home to globally important populations of elephants, black rhinos, African wild dogs and hippos.

This logging is designed to harvest the trees in the area that would be flooded if the proposed Stiegler’s Gorge hydropower project goes ahead. It would remove trees in a 1,436km2 area in the heart of the Selous Game Reserve – a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1982.

The tender is in clear breach of Tanzanian law, as an Environmental Impact Assessment has not been completed, and encompasses an area described by UNESCO and IUCN as containing “the most important ecological elements of the reserve”.

29.05.2018 - 22:58 [ allAfrica ]

Controversial Dam Contruction Threatens Tanzanian Game Reserve

Over 2.6 million trees may be cut off in Selous Game Reserve when the Stiegler‘s Gorge hydroelectricity project takes off in July 2018. To meet the country‘s energy needs, the government is planning to build a huge hydropower dam in the heart of Selous Game Reserve.