3 March 2022
Press Release: Tanzanian Government prepares to evict thousands of Indigenous Maasai residents to make space for trophy hunting and elite tourism
By Forest Peoples Programme “We have nowhere else to go. Losing this land will mean the extinction of our community.” On January 21, 2022 the Tanzanian government began demarcating 1500 sq km of disputed land in Loliondo, resuming previous contentious plans to make way for elite tourism and trophy hunting. Plans are to evict tens of thousands of local Maasai...