Selous Reserve gets new status

Flocks of cattle on rampage in Selous reserve
IPPmedia
Against the backdrop of perennial conflicts between farmers and pastoralists, a new scenario has emerged whereby herders with large numbers of cattle have reportedly invaded the Selous Game Reserve (SGR), threatening to eliminate native vegetation.

>It’s bout 8.00 am  and more  than 100 students line up at the  Tazara Railway station ready for a big trip. The lucky students from Barabara ya Mwinyi Secondary School, Dar es Salaam Independent School and Genesis International School are about to take a train ride to the Selous Game Reserve.

>A 15-year-old Maasai cattle herder has been killed after being attacked by predators while herding cattle near Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, police said on Monday.

WWF-Tanzania has donated a new boat engine YAMAHA40 HP to Selous Game Reserve and will be used at Mtemere Wildlife Camp. The ceremony took place at WWF Tanzania Country office in Dar es Salaam on Friday May 30, 2014.
The engine, handed over by WWF Tanzania’s Conservation Manager, Mr. Gerald Kamwenda on behalf of the Country Director was received by Mr. Gregory Andrea Kalokole, Senior Game Warden from Selous Game Reserve on behalf of the Project Manager. Witnessing the event were Mr. Georgy...

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>A new population census will be conducted in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) in Ngororongoro District, Arusha Region, according to the authority’s Board of Trustees chair Mwanaidi Maajar.

The status of Zanzibar
The Economist
IN APRIL Tanzanians celebrated the 50th anniversary of the union between mainland Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar. In honour of the occasion, the East African nation came together to rewrite its 1977 constitution. But instead of strengthening the ...

Seismic tests in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest wildlife reserve which is famed for its mountain gorillas, have confirmed the presence of oil, the Congolese government said Friday.

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Tanzania records zero poaching in largest game reserve
Business Standard
After years of incessant elephant poaching, Tanzanian authorities said that there had been no poaching in the Selous Game Reserve for the past three months. Poaching of elephants in the 50,000 square km reserve, one of the largest protected areas in ...
Tanzania Records Zero Poaching In Game Reserve In Last Three MonthsBernama
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