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Latest from Tanzania

Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT)

Titling Pastoralist Land Across Northern Tanzania

Land & Rights

UCRT helps Maasai, Hadzabe, Datoga and other pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities in northern Tanzania win legally binding titles to the rangeland their livelihoods depend on.

1.5MhectaresLand secured under communal customary land titles
190villagesVillages with strengthened land rights
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Justdiggit mobilizes African farmers and pastoralists to dig water-harvesting bunds and regrow trees from living stumps, regreening hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded drylands.

525khectaresLand under restoration (cumulative)
32.3MtreesTrees recovered via Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (cumulative)
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Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG)

Defending Tanzania's Eastern Arc Montane Forests

Forests

Tanzania's largest forest-focused NGO works with mountain communities to protect the ancient Eastern Arc cloud forests.

1Mtrees/yearTrees planted annually with farmers
150communitiesCommunities partnered with on forest management
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Land & Rights

Founded by ten Maasai women in 1997, the Pastoral Women's Council has helped over a thousand Maasai women win formal title to rangeland in a culture where women traditionally could not own land.

7,000womenMaasai women empowered across Ngorongoro, Longido and Monduli Districts
1,200womenPastoralist women who received formal land certificates from village governments
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Oceans & Coasts

A Zanzibar-born network puts coastal Tanzanian communities in charge of restoring reefs, mangroves and fisheries on which their livelihoods depend.

37villagesVillages with community fisheries management areas
130hectaresMangrove restoration plots established
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Once-barren, poached-out savanna in the western Serengeti corridor has been brought back to life through anti-poaching patrols, fire management and invasive-plant clearance.

350kacresWestern Serengeti habitat protected
4,569hectaresSavanna cleared of invasive alien plants
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