Weak governance escalating deforestation in Tanzania: FAO report

Of the total land area (88.3 mn hectares) in the African country, 55% is under forest cover. According to 2017 estimates, deforestation occurred …

Angling spat

Glaciers in the tropics are threatened

फायदे की बजाय नुकसान पहुंचा रही हैं जलवायु अनुकूलन के लिए बनाई परियोजनाएं

जलवायु परिवर्तन और उससे उपजे संकट से निपटने के लिए शुरु की गई परियोजनाएं हाशिए पर रहे लोगों की मुसीबतों को और बढ़ा रही ...

Lion hunting only makes sense if it's part of a package of interventions

New research from Zambia's Luangwa Valley identifies reforms needed for lion trophy hunting

Why Nairobi must spread the right food message in an unhealthy environment

Residents in Nairobi's urban slums are opting for fast food rather than healthy alternatives, which is increasing their risk of …

Ashden awards for sustainable development

Tourism-dependent nations value elephants

TANZANIA

Chikungunya virus assumes epidemic proportions

How the disease became an epidemic

Tanzania to establish fund to conserve Lake Victoria basin

Fund will be used to help develop fishing as a sustainable source of income for more than a million people who depend on the lake’s resources

Bednet gain

Africa can now combat malaria

Tanzania defends Tata's soda ash plant

Africa’s Tanzania loses 60 per cent elephants to poaching

Neighbour Mozambique had recently revealed that it lost nearly half of its elephant population in five years

Focus on sewerage system won’t clean up cities and rivers, says expert

Two-thirds people in cities are not even connected to sewerage and use onsite sanitation systems or defecate in the open

New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks

Tanzania

Update

Africa gets substandard malaria drugs

Tuskers going tusk-less in Tanzania

The rising number of tusk-less elephants in Tanzania could be due to genetic reasons, not poaching, says the government

EAST AFRICA

Should ivory trade be legalised?

International ban on ivory trade has neither reduced elephant poaching nor the volume of the illegal trade. Is it time the trade is legalised? …

Mozambique, Tanzania fail to curb poaching

Poachers refuse to pay fine, hunting firm violates wildlife rules

Barriers under pestle

There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use

Alternatives to endosulfan

FAO to give suggestions on the pesticide to committee on persistent organic pollutants