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Planned Tanzanian soda ash plant threatens flamingoes

Salmon-coloured clouds of flamingoes sweeping overhead is a common sight at east Africa's Rift Valley lakes, but the mounds of mud where they lay their eggs are found only here.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Kihansi spray toads make historic return to Tanzania

In a bold effort to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, one hundred Kihansi spray toads have been flown home to Tanzania after being painstakingly reared at the Bronx Zoo and The Toledo ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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The full moon indicates impending danger from lion attack

Be sure to check the sky if you ever set out for a nighttime stroll in southeastern Tanzania. If the moon is full, continue. But if the sky is dark, turn back – or you may be a lion's dinner.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists calculate the true cost of saving rainforest, improving food security

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that international plans to pay developing countries to reduce tropical forest destruction may increase rural poverty because critical income streams to rural people have ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tanzanian forests in near crisis due to bushmeat hunting, habitat degradation

The populations of several animal species in southern Tanzania are suffering alarming declines due to bushmeat hunting and habitat degradation, and urgent action is needed to prevent the collapse of local ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Road may disrupt migration, ruin Serengeti, study finds

Building a highway through Serengeti National Park may devastate one of the world's last large-scale herd migrations and the region's ecosystem, according to new research by an international team of ecologists, including ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Zoological Society: Commercial road would disrupt world's greatest migration

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are requesting that the Government of Tanzania reconsider the proposed construction of a commercial road through the world's best known wildlife ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Homecoming for Tanzania rhino species kept alive in S.Africa

A group of Tanzanian rhinos, now extinct in their natural habitat, was airlifted home Friday more than two decades after some of the species were brought to South Africa, officials said.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan big winner at UN conservation meeting

(AP) -- The Japanese seemed to be everywhere at the U.N. wildlife trade meeting.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists use cell phone records to predict spread of malaria

University of Florida researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New studies find amazing concentration of species unique to east African mountains

New studies published this month in the scientific journal Biological Conservation document an amazing concentration of over 1000 species unique--or endemic-- to an area slightly larger than Rhode Island in ...

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created Jan 16, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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