Thread by @CaroRackete

150.000 Maasai in Tanzania face violent eviction from their lands in February.

In Loliondo bc of hunting reserve @OBC_Tanzania for UAE royal family, while Ngorongoro case involves @UNESCO and @IUCN.🧵

Don't allow land grabs of communities pastures & livelihoods @SuluhuSamia

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Loliondo were shaped as ecosystems by centuries of pastoralist use by the very Maasai communities who are now threatened with eviction. Without Maasai land use no such ecosystems. 2/x

The Maasai have organised within their communities for years against land grabs and also successfully stopped them. Women have been very influential in this. Watch here 3/x

Being displaced from their lands Maasai communities would loose access to grazing pastures for their animals, this would lead to more food insecurity, hunger and poverty. 4/x

The eviction in Loliondo threatens 70,000 people, to create a trophy hunting game reserve via @OBC_Tanzania that serves mainly the United Arab Emirate royal family. Read details by @oak_institute 5/x
oaklandinstitute.org/maasai-loliond…

The eviction in Ngorongoro Conservation Area threatenes 80,000 people. Here international bodies like @UNESCO play a role in supporting the claim the Maasai would destroy the place they stewarded for centuries. In the end, this is about revenues from international tourism. 6/x

There is a false idea that "wilderness" is an empty landscape without humans while we have always shaped the landscapes and ecosystems we see today. Indigenous people have a right to free, prior and informed consent which is violated here. Read specifics rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1242…