The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is world famous for the Ngorongoro Crater, an enormous unfilled caldera (a crater created by the eruption and collapse of a volcano). This part of East Africa’s ...

Plans to remove the Maasai from Ngorongoro highlight the clash between conservation goals ...

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with ...

Tanzania’s policies on conservation and its ongoing impacts on Maasai people in Ngorongoro district highlight how communities historically marginalized by oppression still wrestle with colonial ...

In 2022, the government of Tanzania began relocating Indigenous Maasai pastoralists from their ancestral home inside and near Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Locals say they’ve been forcibly evicted ...

“We are tired of moving.” This is what several Maasai men and women residing in the Endulen village in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) told us last July when we asked them about the ...

Tanzania has a long and troubling history of evicting communities from their lands. This has happened under the guise of expanding protected conservation areas, which make up over 40% of its territory ...

Conservation experts in Tanzania are seeking sustainable solutions to balance wildlife protection and rising human activity in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Rapid population growth, livestock ...