Category: United Republic of Tanzania

Africa’s natural World Heritage sites are protected for future generations but remain under threat; Lindsey Smith; EIA

Photo: EIA

Today (18 April) is World Heritage Day, a chance to celebrate and promote awareness of global cultural and natural heritage and to encourage the preservation and protection of monuments and sites.

Source: Africa’s natural World Heritage sites are protected for future generations but remain under threat – EIA

Tanzania installs internet on Mount Kilimanjaro for Insta-ascents; AFP

Photo: Tanya Willmer

Tanzania has installed high-speed internet services on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, allowing anyone with a smartphone to tweet, Instagram or WhatsApp their ascent up Africa’s highest mountain. Mount Kilimanjaro is an important source of tourism revenue in Tanzania and neighbouring Kenya, with around 35,000 people attempting to summit it each year.

Source: Tanzania installs internet on Mount Kilimanjaro for Insta-ascents

New country souvenir, Tanzania, with Geocache of the Week: Uhuru Peak; Adam Brown; Geocaching

Photo: Bernhard Gruber

Today, Adam brown released a new country/regional souvenir for Tanzania. If you have found a geocache in Tanzania, you automatically receive the souvenir on your profile. Karibu Tanzania! Nestled within the African Great Lakes region, Tanzania is a vast East African country known for its sprawling wilderness and opportunities to see the Big Five (lions, leopards, rhinoceroses, elephants, and African buffalos) on safari.

Source: New country souvenir, Tanzania, with Geocache of the Week: Uhuru Peak

Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments; EurekAlert

Olduvai (now Oldupai) Gorge, known as the Cradle of Humankind, is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania, made famous by Louis and Mary Leakey. New interdisciplinary field work has led to the discovery of the oldest archaeological site in Oldupai Gorge as reported in Nature Communications, which shows that early human used a wide diversity of habitats amidst environmental changes across a 200,000 year-long period.

Source: Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments