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President Kikwete’s World Environment Day speech raises eyebrows over its sincerity

PRESIDENTIAL WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY ADDRESS RAISES EYEBROWS President Kikwetes address on the occasion of the World Environment Day has raised more than a few eyebrows amongst the conservation fraternity, when on Tuesday this week he was quoted to have said: If we dont take remedial measures to conserve the environment, our lives and welfare will […]

East Africa’s Forests, under threat like never before

EAST AFRICAS FORESTS GOING, GOING, GOING AND GONE BY WHEN The recently published East Africa Report 2012 makes grim reading, when it comes to the forests in the region, as over the past 20 years, between 1990 and 2010 more than 22 million hectares of forests were razed, for logging, through population encroachment and to […]

10 years of eTN and growing stronger year by year

AFRICA TEN YEARS ON SINCE ETN DEBUT eTurboNews is this week looking back at a decade of success, having grown from strength to strength and established itself as a friend of those destinations which 10 years ago were not exactly in the constant spotlight of the media or if at all often being negatively reported […]

China’s double edged Christmas present to Tanzania and Uganda rattles conservationists

CHINAS CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO EAST AFRICA RATTLES CONSERVATION FRATERNITY News emerged just before the long Christmas weekend that Uganda and Tanzania have signed a joint agreement with CCECC, the China Civil Engineering Construction Company, worth over 450 million US Dollars, to prepare a feasibility study for a new proposed railway route from Tanga port to […]

Quo Vadis Wilderness – as the World Population hits 7 Billion

QUO VADIS WILDERNESS AS POPULATION HITS 7 BILLION The annual World Habitat Day this year is celebrated at a time when the global population is expected to cross the threshold of 7 billion inhabitants, all in need of shelter, clothing, food and water, education and jobs, and of course ever more land to live and […]

Kenya conservation news – Land use change application causes instant objections

CONSERVATIONISTS DEMAND A HALT TO LAND USE CHANGE APPLICATION As the assaults against the environment multiply across the region continue, like the Mabira saga in Uganda, the corridor of destruction Serengeti-Lake Natron-Selous-Tanga Marine Park in Tanzania, in Kenya too the stage is set now for an epic battle between the conservation fraternity and developers, as […]

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 […]

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 […]

How 400km solar-powered fence reduces human-wildlife conflict

  (Posted 31st October 2023)   Courtesy of Elephant News / Stenews and Joseph Kipsang, The Standard   In the picturesque village of Riru, nestled in the Kieni West region, the sun reaches its zenith as 58-year-old farmer Chrispus Karue continues his daily toil in the lush maize fields. The embrace of the formidable Aberdare […]

Big money pushes conservation aside in #Botswana

OKAVANGO UNDER THREAT AS TEST DRILLING BEGINS By Jeffrey Barbee and Laurel Neme, National Geographic (Posted 29th January 2021) The search for oil and gas in the watershed of the world-famous, wildlife-rich Okavango Delta moved one step closer to reality when a multimillion-dollar drilling rig from Houston, Texas, broke ground on the first test well […]

Mount Kenya news updates courtesy of ‘Mountain Dispatches’

MOUNTAIN DISPATCHES JULY to SEPTEMBER 2018 Welcome to the third newsletter this year! We are working hard to show our supporters the faces and work of Mt Kenya through the talented Routes Adventure media team, who have been following our projects for a few weeks. Check out the video on our Naro Moru fencer teams […]

Updates from the Mount Kenya Trust

MOUNTAIN DISPATCHES (Posted 24th April 2018) January saw members of the Scientific Exploration Society visit and assist the Trust. In February, we held our annual 10to4 Mountain Bike Challenge, this year sponsored by Tropic Air and a huge success. In March, we piloted the first Mount Kenya Trust Festival to celebrate all things Mount Kenya, […]

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome is the founder and publisher of ATCNews, Eastern Africa’s leading aviation, tourism and conservation news blog of its kind. Wolfgang has over 48 years of experience in the tourism, aviation and conservation fields in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, covering all aspects of safari-, hotel- and air-operations. 

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

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