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Capitalizing on Chaos: Thomson Safaris Tightens its Stranglehold Over Indigenous Lands in Tanzania

Boston-based Thomson Safaris is exploiting the Tanzanian government’s brutal repression of land defenders to legitimize control over Maasai land in the Loliondo Division of the Ngorongoro District. In June 2022, the government carried out land demarcation to create a Game Reserve in Loliondo, which saw security forces fire live ammunition on the Maasai, severely wounding dozens and displacing thousands. In the immediate aftermath of these events...

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Pulling Back the Curtain: How the US Drives Tanzania’s War on the Indigenous

This brief reveals how Tanzania’s largest bilateral donor has been instrumental in designing the country’s aggressive strategy to expand the tourism industry at the expense of Indigenous communities. It details how the US is behind a number of policy changes and measures that have led to the expansion of so-called protected areas and favored private operators, including fiscal measures to their benefit. USAID has for instance prepared...

Losing the Serengeti report cover

Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever

Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving them into smaller and smaller areas and creating a stifling map of confinement. The...

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Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele

Blog

Maasai villagers, their faces are hidden for their protection. Credit: Oakland Institute

Tanzania's Withdrawal from the African Court on Human and People's Rights

Monday, December 9, 2019 Anuradha Mittal

A Wrong Move for the Country and for the Continent Maasai villagers, their faces are hidden for their protection. Credit: Oakland Institute When domestic mechanisms fail and there is no rule of law, independent regional and international mechanisms are essential to ensure accountability and human rights for all. This December 10th, recognized internationally as Human Rights Day, it is necessary to challenge Tanzanian President John Magufuli...

Entrance to a new boma built by the displaced Maasai. Credit: The Oakland Institute

This Human Rights Day, Stand Up for the Rights of the Maasai in Tanzania

Monday, December 10, 2018 Elizabeth Fraser

Basic rights – to life, security, food and housing, freedom from arbitrary arrest, and more – are also being systematically denied to the indigenous Maasai pastoralists in the Loliondo and Ngorongoro regions of northern Tanzania, and the situation is critical.

Press Releases and Public Statements

US Luxury Safari Operator Tightens Stranglehold Over Maasai Land in Tanzania

UNESCO and Tanzanian Government's Plan Threatens the Continued Survival of the Maasai

Maasai Villagers Win a Major Victory in the East African Court of Justice in Case Against Tanzanian Government

Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele

Repression Intensifies against Maasai Villagers in Tanzania as They Seek Justice Against Decades of Human Rights Abuses at the East African Court of Justice

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Media

Land-grabbing luxury safari tourism is displacing Maasai communities in Tanzania

The Canary

UNESCO World Heritage Day is a celebration of violent colonial conservation against Indigenous people

The Canary

A Brief History of the Bourgeois Safari

Current Affairs

En Tanzanie, la nature reste reine

GEO

Displacement and Dispossession in Tanzania: How "Conservation" is Destroying the Maasai

World Rainforest Movement

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Documentation and Contracts

Documentation: Capitalizing on Chaos

UNESCO Ngorongoro Conservation Area Report, Related Documents

Tanzania Government Documents

Tanzania Legal Discovery Documents

Tanzania Lawsuit - Legal Documents

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