Further to recent reports and inquiries, regarding the displacement of the Maasai people in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area World Heritage property, UNESCO wishes to recall that neither the World ...

Dar es Salaam. A Maasai traditional leader has called for a sustainable balance between people, livestock and wildlife in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), warning that growing pressure on the ...

Eight UN experts say "conservation efforts must not come at the expense of human rights" Hundreds of Maasai people have protested in one of Tanzania's most important tourism destinations over their ...

Tanzania’s policies on conservation and its ongoing impacts on Maasai people in Ngorongoro district highlight how communities historically marginalized by oppression still wrestle with colonial ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

For years, human rights organizations have accused UNESCO of being either inattentive or complicit in the illegal evictions of communities and allegations of torture, rape and murder in several World ...

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is world famous for the Ngorongoro Crater, an enormous unfilled caldera (a crater created by the eruption and collapse of a volcano). This part of East Africa’s ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Wildebeests cross the Mara River during one of the annual migrations. Masai Mara National ...

In June, state security forces in the United Republic of Tanzania engaged in a violent eviction campaign against Indigenous Maasai, shooting them and driving them from their lands. The attack took ...

Hundreds of Maasai people have protested in one of Tanzania's most important tourism destinations over their eviction in the name of conservation. The protests on World Heritage Day aim to highlight ...