Mysterious dolphin deaths in Zanzibar

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Gem slaves Tanzanite's child labour

Mystery behind the cracks on African bush elephants’ skin decoded

Researchers explain that the animals regulate their body heat through their skin, which helps in absorbing maximum water

How corruption encourages illegal fishing on Lake Victoria

By encouraging illegal fishing to continue, corruption is undermining the comanagement system implemented to encourage more sustainable practices

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Tanzania’s gas boom that never was — when local hopes are dashed by global realities

Perceptions of what gas could bring in the future changed; the industry shattered dreams and left environmental effects such as pollution …

Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why

Poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and where local levels of human development are relatively high

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Human rights and poverty eradication: A Talisman for the Commonwealth

Kpunji represents a new genus

Recent find climbs up the taxonomic ladder from a new species to a new genus

Ancient DNA helps reveal social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago that shaped the human story

Around 20,000 years ago, foragers in some African regions were almost exclusively finding their partners locally

Arab hunting

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From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth’s great animal migrations

For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are …

As Tanzania’s Lake Rukwa continues to dry up, NGOs focus on sensitising locals

Shared Resources Joint Solutions (SRJS) initiative has been launched to build institutional capacity of civil society organisations

The imperatives of governing world’s forests

For the past eight years, leaders of public forest agencies from the world’s most forested countries have been taking part in a series of …

Zanzibar passes new regulation developed by CSE on solid waste management

The first of its kind in East Africa, the regulation will help Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago to tackle its burgeoning waste problem

Tanzania bans plastic bags

All plastic carry bags are prohibited from being imported, exported, manufactured, sold, stored, supplied and used in the African country

Does Africa's future lie in solar revolution?

Six hundred million people in Africa do not have access to electricity. But things are poised to change in the coming decades with a steady rise …

New AIDS vaccine shows encouraging results