How Maasai people were reunited with precious heirlooms
This calm was important to counterbalance the emotional intensity of the morning's primary activity: reuniting Maasai ...
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Why Poison Is a Growing Threat to Africa’s Wildlife
The Maasai herdsmen in Kenya ... “Wildlife management is people management,” says Richard Bonham, co-founder of Big Life and its Africa director of operations, referring to the problem ...
National Catholic Reporter14d
In Africa's Congo Basin, Indigenous peoples lose homes to conservation efforts
As nations meet in Colombia for the COP16 summit under the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, African bishops and other ...
BBC7y
Maasai displaced after huts burned in Tanzania
It is part of a longstanding border dispute between local Maasai people and authorities who operate ... It's the latest example in East Africa of the growing tensions between wildlife conservation ...
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Can cattle and wildlife co-exist in the Maasai Mara? A controversial study says yes
By Ashoka Mukpo Cattle and conservation don’t typically mix. For centuries, East African pastoralists like the Maasai trudged across the region’s savannas with their herds, passing by elephants and ...
Nigerian Tribune1d
Cultural essence of African traditional arts, craft
The beauty of African art flows with every African cultural group, each having its unique artwork such as the Maasai beadwork ...
Christian Science Monitor14d
Ahead of Tanzania’s election, Maasai fight to stay put
A deeper view that unites instead of divides, connecting why the story matters to you. Behind the news are values that drive people and nations. Explore them here. You don’t need this reminder, but ...
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Living With Lions
Africa alone, during this long ebb ... and terrifying wildness of a lion is no dream. One set of such people are the Maasai who inhabit group ranches bordering Amboseli National Park, on the ...
Africa's famous Serengeti and Maasai Mara are being hit by climate change—a major threat to wildlife and tourism
The Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which includes Kenya's Maasai Mara and Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, is one of the most ...
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African beading traditions reflect shared human experiences and connect generations
these enduring heritages are reflected in other parts of Africa, stretching to the Kenyan and Tanzanian Masai people in East Africa, and from the ancient Egyptian dynasties of North Africa to the ...
Toronto Sun22d
Masai Ujiri's Giants of Africa unveil two basketball courts in Toronto
Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri’s nonprofit organization Giants of Africa unveiled a pair of basketball courts in Toronto earlier this week. The courts opened on Tuesday at Firgrove Park ...
Environmental finance3y
Impact initiative of the year - Africa; Asset manager of the year - small: Conservation International
Home to 25% of Kenya's wildlife and the greatest annual migration of animals on Earth, the Greater Mara ecosystem is one of the most important conservation areas in Africa, according to CI. The land ...