LOS MAASAI Y EL AREA DE CONSERVACIÓN DEL NGORONGORO (I)

Stop the Land grabbing in ngorongoro , we are no longer to keep quiet on this harassment with showing by the government of Tanzania about the Masai community in ngorongoro.@UNESCO @UNEP @Avaaz @VOAAfrica @THRDCOALITION to stop the eviction and Royal tour in ngorongoro. pic.twitter.com/xKIdbZBCZf

— Lazaro (@LazaroRotiken) April 6, 2022

 

 

 

• On January 11, 2022 the Tanzanian government renewed efforts to seize 1,500 km² of legally registered village land in the Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District from Maasai pastoralists, who have sustainably stewarded the area for generations.

• The government plans would displace over 70,000 Maasai pastoralists from their ancestral land to create a wildlife corridor that would be used for trophy hunting and tourism by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Otterlo Business Company (OBC).

• Large groups of Maasai have held protests and local leaders have issued a statement to stop any demarcation process from moving forward.

• At the same time, resettlement plans for Maasai living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) have been advanced, with the government aiming to begin removing residents by the end of February 2022.

   

   https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/maasai-loliondo-tanzania-face-renewed-eviction-threat