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(Third World Resurgence) Maasai fight eviction from Tanzanian community land by US-based ecotourism company

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IN Loliondo, the northern division of Ngorongoro district, near Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, Thomson Safaris, a safari company from Boston, USA, claims to be developing 12,617 acres of Maasai grazing land into a model for community-based tourism and conservation initiatives, with the goal of fostering a symbiotic relationship made possible by ecotourism.  It calls the land its private Enashiva Nature Refuge (or sometimes Eastern Serengeti Nature Refuge).

The Maasai on whose land Thomson’s project takes place, on their part, report about harassment, beatings and arrests of ‘trespassers’, and three villages surrounding the nature refuge are, with the support of Minority Rights Group International, involved in a court case to regain their land…

 

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