Despite their centuries of experience doing so, the voices of pastoralists are often excluded from decision-making affecting their lives.
Lisa Haisha | Posted 12.25.2011
While most people in the world know about the current famine in Africa, when a problem is hundreds or even thousands of miles away, it's easy to ignore it. It's time for everyone to face the facts.
Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 05.30.2011
At the interface of tradition, tourism and sustainability, dramatic photographs can tell a story that is hardly apparent at first glance. A stone's...
Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011
Man is not the only creature that will need the freedom to roam in a climate-disrupted world. But it is only homo sapiens that threaten that freedom -- and the resilience and security it can offer.
Sally Thorner | Posted 05.25.2011
This post has nothing to do with taking your clothes off. But it is very revealing. Confirmation that the world is flat (to quote Thomas Friedman) ...
Maria Russo | Posted 05.25.2011
The migration of two million herbivores crossing the Serengeti-Mara border is a natural wonder. But it could be jeopardized if the Tanzanian government builds a proposed highway through it.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Where we no longer must allocate the time and resources to go physically to all corners of the earth -- Facebook, Skype, our email takes us there.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011
In the spring I travelled to Barcelona for the GSM Association's World Congress, with 49,000 participants spread between mobile phone-related 1,300 ve...
Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
As climate change becomes more evident, it's increasingly hard to push livestock keepers' rights aside. Governments need to recognize that pastoralists are the best keepers of genetic diversity.
Martha McCully | Posted 11.17.2011
Picture this: Twelve women from New York, Aspen and Palm Beach sleeping "under canvas" on the Serengeti, sharing two vehicles, one Ranger and roughly 30 meals...There were no Bergdorf Blondes on this trip. More like Tanzanian Trekkers.
Matthew Bergman | Posted 05.25.2011
The opportunity to make miracles is the gift that Africa bestows upon us. Whether the miracles are realized is our decision.
Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011
The politics of Africa is all about the elephant.
Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011
All of us were deeply moved by the dignity of these tribes and the serenity with which they inhabit the vast plains and mountains of Tanzania.
Farah Mawani | Posted 04.19.2012