Tag archives for Tanzania
Kilimanjaro: Summit on the Summit
Posted by Ford Cochran on January 9, 2010 National Geographic Emerging Explorers Alexandra Cousteau and Jimmy Chin are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Lupe Fiasco, Isabel Lucas, and other celebrities to raise public awareness of the shortage of clean water across much of the planet. Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson predicts that Kilimanjaro’s legendary crown of ice could…
Posted by By James G. Robertson Andrew Marshall was surveying monkeys in the Magombera Forest in Tanzania as a conservation researcher when he disturbed a snake along his path. The snake was snacking on a chameleon at the time, and hastily left its lunch sitting in front of him. Photo: Andrew Marshall/African Journal of Herpetology Marshall took…
A shy tree-dwelling monkey with a black face and long brown fur, the kipunji, was unknown to science until 2003, when it was discovered in a farmer’s trap in a remote region of southern Tanzania. Now scientists think it may have had an intriguing sexual past. Credit: Photo courtesy of Tim Davenport. “The most extensive…
Not much has been known about the distribution and range of some of Africa’s most secretive predators, including leopards and other big cats that hunt at night and sleep during the day. Where do they prowl after dark? Do they steal across farms when everyone is asleep? By using a network of more than 400…
Engaging Local Communities in Conservation
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 15, 2009 More highlights from the 2009 National Geographic Explorers Symposium: Filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert spoke of a partnership with the Maasai in southeastern Kenya, where fewer than 200 lions survive, that has reduced lion deaths from 40 a year to one in the last 18 months, of the shooting of Botswana‘s…
Aardvark: A large burrowing nocturnal mammal of sub-Saharan Africa that has a long snout, extensible tongue, powerful claws, large ears, and heavy tail and feeds especially on termites and ants. –Merrian-Webster Online Dictionary Julie Larsen Maher © WCS Most of us know aardvark as the first word in the dictionary. It’s also a really cool…
Video by Mpingo Conservation Project Two communities in Tanzania have obtained the first Forest Stewardship Council certification for community-managed natural forest in Africa. Certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international, not-for-profit, membership-based organization that promotes responsible management of the world’s forests, entitles the faremers to use a logo and product label (see details…
Posted by News from Africa for the 5th World Water Forum: Tanzania Brewer Drafted into Water Efficiency Effort To brew just one 250 ml glass of beer it takes 75 liters of water, according to the Water Footprint Network. Water is primarily used for growing barley, but the brewing process itself also uses the resource. Despite re-occurring drought…
NGS/Michael Nichols Elephants that survived the trauma of the poaching of their relatives may struggle for decades to build new social relationships, new research suggests. Some may still be living alone twenty years after losing their families. “An African elephant never forgets – especially when it comes to the loss of its kin,” according to researchers at the…
Photo by E Bowen-Jones/Courtesy FFI By many reckonings we live in scary times. It’s sometimes difficult to find the good news to share. So it’s particularly welcome to report on Halloween that one species of bat in Africa is doing a lot better than it was only a few years ago. “The Pemba flying fox…
