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Tanzania’s ‘Corridor of Destruction’ expands to the Selous

GIANT DAM IN THE SELOUS GAME RESERVE SET TO FLOOD MOST OF THE PRESENT CORE TOURISM AREAS (Posted 02nd August 2019) By Jane Dalton, The Independent The president of Tanzania has inaugurated a huge controversial hydroelectric dam project in a wildlife reserve at the centre of warnings over rhino and elephant populations. Conservation groups have […]

Will Tanzania’s ‘Corridor of Destruction’ turn into a corridor of conservation again?

PROFESSOR MAGHEMBE SETS NEW DIRECTION WITH PLEDGES TOWARDS ANTIPOACHING, ILLEGAL LOGGING AND TO BOOST TOURISM PROMOTION (Posted 30th December 2015) Unlike the former holder of the Natural Resources and Tourism portfolio, one Lazaro Nyalandu, who during his time in office diddled and fiddled, clearly afraid of the powers that be in Tanzania, has Prof. Jumanne […]

Tanzania’s ‘Corridor of Destruction’ set to extend into Uganda too

TANZANIAS CORRIDOR OF DESTRUCTION SET TO EXTEND TO UGANDA TOO The environmental assaults on many fronts in Tanzania, often written about here and described as The Corridor of Destruction in previous feature articles, now seems to come home to roost to Uganda too, according to regular green sources in Kampala. Disquieting reports are emerging from […]

Tanzania conservation news – Corridor of Destruction reloaded

TANGA MUSOMA RAILWAY SEEKS INVESTORS The new railway line between Tanga, one of the lesser Indian Ocean ports of Tanzania, and Musoma on Lake Victoria, where a new port is due to be build at a cost of approximately 80 million US Dollars at current prices, will have a branch line to Lake Natron to […]

Is Tanzania’s Coelacanth Marine National Park at Mwambani damned for destruction?

CHINA READY TO FINANCE NEW MWAMBANI PORT INSIDE COELACANTH MARINE PARK Emerging information that China has reportedly stepped up to finance the construction of a new port at Mwambani, instead of rehabilitating and enlarging the existing and grossly underutilized Tanga port, have shaken Tanzanias conservation fraternity afresh. This has happened only days after learning that […]

Whom to believe about road plans through the Serengeti

TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT AGENCY DENIES PLANS FOR A TARMAC HIGHWAY THROUGH THE SERENGETI (Posted 16th November 2016) When a few weeks ago plans by the Tanzanian Road Authority became public, through tender documents floated for bids, that the ill fated route for a highway across the Serengeti was being revived, did alarm bells shrill across the […]

No let up as Magufuli now targets poaching for soiling Tanzania’s reputation abroad

PRESIDENT MAGUFULI ISSUES STARK WARNING TO POACHERS AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES (Posted 25th November 2015) Civil servants as well as politicians in Tanzania are starting to come to terms that their newly elected President Dr. John Pombe Magufuli does mean business, as the various shock waves sent out by him already bear witness to. Turning money […]

TAWA launch speeches – taken with many grains of salt

TAWA INAUGURATION – TOO LATE FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ELEPHANT (Posted 18th October 2015) The formal launch over the weekend by outgoing President Kikwete of the Tanzania Wildlife Authority has evoked more criticism than praise from conservationists it seems. While the principle to have a strong authority dealing with a range of conservation and […]

Tanzania’s presidential front runner faces hard questions on his conservation record and policies

CONSERVATIONISTS ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT TANZANIA’S CCM CANDIDATES’ ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION CREDENTIALS (Posted 13th July 2015) Tanzania’s ruling party, the CCM, aka Chama Cha Mapinduzi, yesterday announced their candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in October this year. Mr. John Magufuli, Minister of Works in outgoing President Kikwete’s government, was chosen by the party hierarchy over […]

Tanzania’s Southern Safari Circuit – back in the spotlight

IN A FLURRY OF PRE-ELECTION ACTIVISM DOES TANZANIA’S GOVERNMENT SUDDENLY REMEMBER THE SOUTHERN SAFARI CIRCUIT (Posted 07th July 2015) After years of neglect, besides allowing the Southern circuit parks and game reserves (Selous, Ruaha, Mikumi) to be turned into elephant killing fields, has Tanzania suddenly re-discovered this part of the country, conveniently in time for […]

Hare brained projects 1 – Environment Nil

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE SERENGETI HIGHWAY AS DAR BOOTS EAC ENVIRONMENT PROTOCOL (Posted 07th June 2015) There is some speculation that during the just concluded Summit of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects, commonly referred to as the Coalition of the Willing, the issue of Tanzania’s stubborn refusal to accept and ratify the 2006 Environmental […]

Are East Africa’s flamingos doomed for extinction?

TANZANIA UNDER RENEWED FIRE OVER LAKE NATRON SODA ASH PLANT (Posted 26th August 2014) Recent comments attributed to a senior official of the National Development Corporation have almost immediately raised the spectrum of further decampaigning of Tanzania in international tourism markets, as one of the country’s key resources, the Lake Natron flats where the entire […]

Mwambani port plans would spell the end of the Coelacanth habitat

CONSERVATIONISTS RESPOND WITH ANGER AND DERISION TO KIKWETE STATEMENT ON MWAMBANI PORT (Posted 30th March 2014) ‘He is just another wolf in sheepskin and our environment and conservation of natural, wildlife and marine resources is his prey’ blasted a regular conservation source from Arusha, understandably on condition of strictest anonymity, following news that Tanzania’s President […]

New study says ‘hands off Lake Natron’

GOVERNMENT INITIATED STUDY SAYS ‘HANDS OFF LAKE NATRON’ (Posted 02nd December 2013) When details emerged last week of an exhaustive scientific study, conducted on behalf of Tanzania’s National Development Corporation, in other words the government itself, that the implementation of President Kikwete’s directive to move ahead with the controversial soda ash extraction plant at Lake […]

Tanzanian officials react angrily over renewed conservation criticism

IN YOUR FACE STATE HOUSE DAR ES SALAAM TELLS CONSERVATION CRITICS (Posted 06th October 2013) Critics of a recent conservation award given in the US to President Kikwete, which some described as making the goat the gardener in reference to his time in State House presiding over an unprecedented slaughter of elephants in Tanzania going […]

Serengeti Highway in the news again as Leakey proposes ‘elevated highway’

SERENGETI HIGHWAY SUGGESTIONS BY RICHARD LEAKEY CALLED LUNATIC EXPRESS 2.0 Hitherto respected conservationist Dr. Richard Leakey earned himself howls of laughter, mockery and acid comments from around the world, when – beware the power of the internet – his suggestions to build an elevated highway across the Serengeti became more widely known and went viral […]

Mwambani evictions denounced by residents and human rights groups

THE ADVANCE OF THE CORRIDOR OF DESTRUCTION DISPLACES MWAMBANI RESIDENTS ‘These evictions are illegal but legalities have never stopped this government from doing something. Land acquisition procedures under the current law, the Land Act of 1999, have been ignored because no ESIA has been conducted. It is also illegal because the value government has put […]

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The Managing Editor of ATCNews is Mrs. Esther C. Goossens.

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