#Tanzania: What’s happening?
The Maasai, one of East Africa’s long-standing Indigenous People, are facing eviction to make more space for Ecotourism and trophy hunting.
The Maasai, one of East Africa’s long-standing Indigenous People, are facing eviction to make more space for Ecotourism and trophy hunting.
In April 2021, the Tanzanian government announced plans to relocate over 80,000 residents – most of them Indigenous Maasai – from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in Tanzania, a breathtaking landscape rich in wildlife bordering Serengeti National Park.
The NCA was declared a World Heritage Site by @UNESCO thanks to its largely intact nature, but despite centuries of Maasai stewardship, they are now facing having their livelihoods destroyed under the guise of conservation.
This is happening as part of the government’s new Multiple Land Use Management (MLUM) and resettlement plan. The MLUM was designed in consultation with UNESCO World Heritage Center, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
.., and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), after they urged the Tanzanian government to control population growth in the NCA – which was framed as directly responsible for the area’s environmental degradation.
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