#AuricAir publishes new Flight Schedule for Ruaha and Selous

  (Posted 15th February 2024)     Auric Air would like to keep you informed about some upcoming changes to their flight schedule for Ruaha and Selous (Nyerere N.P.) flights.   Starting from June 01st, 2024, they are introducing a new flight schedule to enhance the travel experience and address the inconvenience faced by passengers, […]

The Downside of ‘Development’ – Tanzania’s (former) Selous Game Reserve

CONSERVATION VERSUS SO CALLED DEVELOPMENT – THE CHALLENGE OF OUR TIMES (BESIDES COVID19) (Posted 31st March 2020) Conservation Vs “Development”? The Political Ecology of the Stiegler’s Gorge Dam and the Selous Game Reserve (Tanzania) Boyce Sarokin, The Elephant March 30, 2020 Wildlife tourism is one of Tanzania’s main foreign exchange earners and an important source […]

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 […]

#SerenaHotels – Updates on their two luxury properties in the #Selous #Tanzania

SERENA HOTELS ONCE AGAIN GIVE THEIR SELOUS PROPERTIES A THOROUGH WORKOVER (Posted 06th April 2019) Selous Serena Camp and Serena Mivumo River Lodge located inside Selous Game Reserve- the vast, pristine and largely undiscovered Game Reserve in Africa are currently undergoing soft refurbishments that are expected to enhance the guest experience and improve the aesthetics […]

#Selous’ Stieglers Gorge Dam claims its first tourism victim

AZURA SELOUS HAS TO HALT OPERATIONS AS LOGGERS SWARM THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD (Posted 14th March 2019) Ignored by the regime mouthpiece media in Tanzania, browbeaten into submission through coercion and constant threats, has the ill conceived plans to build a hydro power plant at Stieglers Gorge in the Selous claimed its first tourism victim. With local […]

#Selous Safari Company – how they replaced plastic straws

The final straw? Our homemade, eco-friendly alternative to plastic straws. First published by SIMON EEMAN / FEBRUARY 26, 2018 IN RAS KUTANI Rebroadcast with permission of the Selous Safari Company One of the core values and main objectives of Selous Safari Company is to ensure the lodges are run with minimal impact on the environment. […]

#CoastalAviation to suspend Ruaha and Selous flights during the rainy season

Dear ATCNews Readers, as usual, during the long rains, Coastal will temporarily suspend flights to Selous and Ruaha. Kindly cross check your bookings and send them the amendments as necessary. From DAR or ZNZ to Selous and Ruaha, and vice versa: Last Flight for the Current Season will be on 15th March. First Flight for […]

#SerengetiWatch repeats warnings over Selous destruction

Dear Serengeti Supporter Against strong objections from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and conservation organizations, the government of Tanzania is going ahead with a hydroelectric dam in the iconic Selous, a World Heritage Site and Africa’soldest and largest uninhabited nature reserve. It was once home to a hundred thousand elephants. We’ve sent alerts on this […]

Flooding the Selous / The big challenge for the Serengeti

SERENGETI WATCH’S CONCERNS FOR THE SELOUS (Posted 02nd September 2017) While sycophants within the Tanzanian establishment find it apparently normal now to sing from one hymnsheet, regardless of the obvious consequences of the impact suggested for various developments planned in UNESCO World Heritage Sites and protected areas, Serengeti Watch did not deposit their brains at […]

Asilia aims to open two luxury properties in the Selous and Ruaha this year

LUXURY PURE AS ASILIA PUTS FINISHING TOUCHES TO TWO NEW PROPERTIES IN TANZANIA (Posted 09th May 2017) (A artist impression of the interior of one of the tents at Roho Ya Selous) Come August will Asilia’s new Selous camp, named Roho Ya Selous, open its doors for guests before in September a sister camp will […]

Serena give their luxurious Selous properties a rainy season makeover

THE SELOUS – WHERE NOT ONE BUT TWO OF SERENA’S LUXURIOUS CAMPS AWAIT YOU (Posted 28th April 2017) After every rainy season, a new sense of life, beauty and peace is restored back into the Selous. The dust and the winds have died down and in their place has a green and lush landscape taken […]

Selous flights close gap in Auric Air’s safari circuit

AURIC AIR ANNOUNCES THE SELOUS GAME RESERVE AS THEIR NEXT SAFARI DESTINATION (Posted 04th February 2016) When Auric Air will add the Selous Game Reserve to its safari and beach destinations will one of the last gaps in their route network finally be closed. Effective 01st of June will this private Tanzanian airline with the […]

The Selous Game Reserve – to be or not to be?

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR STIEGLERS GORGE? (Posted 12th July 2015) Information is trickling in from Tanzania that the Rufiji Basin Development Authority may be pulling out of the hugely controversial hydro-electric power plant project at Stiegler’s Gorge, which has, alongside many other environmental infringements and follies perpetrated in Tanzania, incensed the global conservation […]

Big, bigger, Selous … the world’s largest game reserve

BIG GAME – BIG WILDERNESS – BIG RIVER MAKE THE MAGIC OF THE SELOUS (Posted 03rd January 2015) When the phone in the tent rang just minutes before the time for the afternoon game-drive, I knew in advance what the conversation would be about. Not long after arriving at the Selous Luxury Camp of Serena […]

UNESCO acts on concerns over Selous conservation

SELOUS GAME RESERVE NOW LISTED AS ‘ENDANGERED WORLD HERITAGE SITE’ (Posted 21st June 2014) ‘There is a prize to pay for everything you do in life and Tanzania is now paying for what our government allows to happen in the Selous’ said a regular conservation source from Dar es Salaam when discussing UNESCO’s move to […]

Selous elephants at the verge of extinction

UNABATED ELEPHANT SLAUGHTER PUSHES SELOUS NUMBERS DOWN TO 13.000 (Posted 01st January 2014) ‘To be honest, some of us here thought you had gone plain mad when you suggested a few weeks ago that Tokomeza was deliberately mismanaged to bring it to a halt. Now I think I owe you an apology because the latest […]

More woes for the Selous as MoU signed for Stiegler’s Gorge dam and power plant

MORE WOES FOR THE SELOUS IN THE MAKING AS STIEGLERS GORGE POWER MOU SIGNED Within days of news breaking that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has approved the Tanzanian governments request to carve out a 200 square kilometres part of the worlds largest game reserve to establish a Uranium mining and processing facility, did news […]

UNESCO consents to excluding Uranium mining areas from the Selous Game Reseve

UNESCO CONSENTS TO REQUEST TO TAKE MINING AREAS OUT OF THE SELOUS GAME Information was confirmed overnight that UNESCOs World Heritage Committee 36th meeting in Russias St. Petersburg has granted permission to the Tanzanian government to reduce the size of the Selous Game Reserve to exclude an area earmarked for Uranium mining. Celebrated by official […]

UNESCO decision on Uranium mining in the Selous Game Reserve due next month

UNESCO DECISOIN ON SELOUS MINING DUE NEXT MONTH A periodic source close to UNESCO in Paris has confirmed that the Tanzanian government was undertaking a last minute goodwill initiative to lobby UNESCO ahead of the expected decision over the application to permit Uranium mining in the Selous Game Reserve, which is a UNESCO World Heritage […]

Tanzania conservation news update – UNESCO issues warning over Selous WHS status

UNESCO ISSUES CHALLENGE OVER SELOUS One of Tanzania’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Selous Game Reserve, may be declared a ‘World Heritage Site in Danger’, should the Tanzanian government continue to recklessly pursue plans to open up a Uranium mine and build a dam at Stiegler’s Gorge it was learned yesterday. This will be the […]

Tanzania conservation breaking news – After the Serengeti it is now the Selous

TANZANIA GOVERNMENT SETS STAGE FOR NEXT BATTLE WITH CONSERVATIONISTS News just broke that no sooner had the Tanzanian government been compelled by intense global criticism and threats of decampaigning its tourism industry to write to UNESCO and give a written binding undertaking that NO highway would be constructed across the critically important migration paths of […]

Safari Tourism at a Crossroads?

  (Posted 28th October 2023)   Courtesy of Serengeti Watch   Dear Serengeti Supporter The emergence of AI has reminded us, the complex systems we humans create can take on a life of their own. Travel is like that. As with AI, we need guardrails to align it with human values, including: benefits for host […]

#CoastalAviation updates their ‘inducement’ policy

  (Posted 01st February 2023)       Dear ATCNews readers and partners, We have recently reviewed our inducement policies and updated them below; this will take effect from 1st February 2023. Flights to or from Kigali – 3pax Flights to or from Rubondo – 4pax Flights from Serengeti to Ruaha/Selous – 4pax Please NOTE: The RUB inducement is to/from Serengeti, […]

Coastal Aviation’s latest news updates

(Posted 12th October 2022) Monthly news & updates Welcome to the Spooky Season!  Scroll through for updates on the developments at Coastal. Last Minute Fares (NEW)** We are introducing LM Fares effective from 15th October 2022.  A few things to note: LM Class fares will be 50% of our standard Y Class (Non-Res) faresThe fares will be visible and bookable […]

#Tanzania’s Coastal Aviation publishes network and fares updates

(Posted 18th August 2022) At Coastal Aviation we are constantly at work, fine-tuning our vast network, or enabling new connections, in order to supply you with endless flying safari options, with the usual reliability and comfort we are known for.We believe this newsletter will help keep you more informed about us and our network, our new ideas, […]

#Tanzania’s #CoastalAviation further updates trade partners on flights to #Kigali and other important changes

(Posted 01st April 2022) Dear ATCNews Readers and Partners Our newsletter sent on 22nd of March touched on various updates, however, we realize that we omitted one very important item, which relates to our Kigali flight and an increased inducement. KIGALI INDUCEMENT With effect from 01st of June 2022, all NEW bookings for flights to/from Kigali will be subject to a minimum inducement of […]

#Tanzania’s Coastal Aviation gives important news updates for passengers

(Posted 30th March 2022) Monthly news & updates Dear ATCNews readers and partners, A lot has happened since our last publication. The exciting news is that there is a gradual return to normalcy, with regards to covid restrictions for travelers. Tanzania has also removed the PCR test requirement for fully vaccinated travelers. Coastal will, for the time being, […]

Serena Tanzania appoint Abishek Negi as new General Manager Safari Circuit

Dear Travel Partner, Serena Hotels is pleased to advise you of the appointment of Abhishek Negi, as the General Manager of Serena Tanzania – Safari circuit , taking over from Rahim Azad who has left the company. Abhishek, was previously the General Manager of the Polana Serena Hotel in Maputo Mozambique. Prior to joining Serena […]