Tanzania

Thousands Lynched For Witchcraft In Tanzania, Report Finds

Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Witch Doctors Tanzania, Tanzania Albinos, Witches Africa, Witchcraft Africa, Africa Superstition, Witchcraft Murders, Tanzania, Witchcraft Albinos, Witchcraft Tanzania, World News

Over the past six years, more than 3,000 people were lynched in Tanzania by frightened neighbors who thought they were witches, according to a new rep...

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5 Things They Don't Tell You About Kilimanjaro

Ben Colclough | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Trekking, Tanzania, Mountains, Kilimanjaro, Hiking, Hiking Kilimanjaro, Travel Tips, Travel Blogs, Travel News

It's been written about countless times, but Kilimanjaro still holds some secrets.

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A Motherhood Worth Honoring

Brooke Edwards | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Eggs, Women, Hunger, Chickens, Poverty, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day, Africa, Heifer International, Motherhood, Small Farmers, Tanzania, Global Motherhood, Income, Mothers, Family, Maternal Health, Video, Impact News

There are millions of passionate and capable mothers around the world who, if given the opportunity and resources, will improve the lives of their children.

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Half of Women Still Give Birth Alone or Without Skilled Health Care in Tanzania -- But We Can Change That!

Rose Mlay | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: International Midwives Day, Tanzania, Global Motherhood, Midwives, Childbirth, Maternal Health, International Day of the Midwife, Video, Impact News

On International Day of the Midwife on May 5, our short film "What I Want Is Simple", is airing on national television and radio in Tanzania.

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Greeks Help Out In Africa: A Health Center Goes Up In Tanzania

Diana Farr Louis | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Burundi, Saadani National Park, Saadani Safari Lodge, Tanzania, Costas Coucoulis, Sana, Home News

It's an unusual safari lodge that can attract you by its infectious enthusiasm for nature and keep you involved by its infectious enthusiasm for giving.

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Maasai Have Always Cared For Wildlife

Farah Mawani | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Richard Branson, Tanzania, Indigenous Rights, Kenya, Maasai, Indigenous People, Maasai Tribe, World News

Despite their centuries of experience doing so, the voices of pastoralists are often excluded from decision-making affecting their lives.

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Review: Disneynature's Chimpanzee, at Home in the Cote d'Ivoire

Carole Mallory | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Oscar, Jon Stewart, Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee, Richard Leaky, Alastair Fothergill Mark Linfield, England, Freddie, The Daily Show, Tanzania, Disney, Entertainment News

Watching a giant chimpanzee named Freddie groom his tiny son, Oscar, is one of the highlights of the Disneynature film Chimpanzee. By unfolding each s...

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'The Amazing Race': Double U-Turn Means Twice The Whining

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Reality TV, Video, Big Brother, Ngorongoro Crater, Africa, Tanzania, TV Canada, Tv Replay, Brendon Villegas, Cbs, Rachel Reilly, TV News

A Double U-Turn on "The Amazing Race" (Sun., 8 p.m. ET on CBS) created all kinds of unexpected drama. Art & J.J. felt betrayed after finding out that ...

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 9, the Last Installment

Ken White | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Giraffe, Thoreau, Africa, Tanzania, Wildness, Safari, Safaris, Tanzania Safari, San Francisco News

We're happy to go home. We know that we have a lot to go back to, but we're also very much wanting to stay.

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Baboons Make Joy From A Puddle

Eliza Deacon | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: African-Wildlife, Safari Holiday, Safaris, Selous, Tanzania Travel, Safari Travel, Africa, Tanzania Safari, Luxury-Safaris, Travel, Tanzania, Safari, Wildlife, Baboons, Travel News

The so-called "green season" in Africa is often considered a slow time in terms of wildlife, but we've always found that at it throws some surprising moments into the mix.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 8

Ken White | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Tanzania, African Animals, Safaris, Tanzania Safari, Tanzania Travel, Safari, San Francisco News

I came here not knowing as well as I know now that each of us is a scant individual in a much larger scheme. I will leave here hoping to hold onto all of that.

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A Hikers' Primer On AMS

Off Track Planet | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Symptoms, Hiking, Ams, Tibet, Machu Picchu, Colorado, Travel, Flu, Otp, Mountains, Peru, Travel Tips, Health, Argentina, Trekking, Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro, Travel News

Sure you can avoid AMS completely by staying sea-level, but living in a fear bubble seams like a waste of space.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 6

Ken White | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Hyenas, Africa, African Animals, Lion Cubs, Lions, Predator-Prey, Tanzania, Safari, San Francisco News

There is so much to say about lions. These are striking animals. Habituated as they obviously are to our vehicles, one is almost drawn to reach out a hand to touch the lions. Almost... I suspect that would be a very good way to lose a hand.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 5

Ken White | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Disney Animals, Giraffe, Zebra, Africa, Hippos, African Safari, Tanzania, Wildebeest, Nile Crocodile, San Francisco News

We spot a baby hippo bobbing in the muddy water beside her mother, not any bigger than the adult behemoth's gigantic snout. These are such interesting animals.

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What We Can Learn From Girl Scout Cookies

Buck Goldstein | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Girl Scout Cookies, Mosquito Nets, Social-Enterprise, Acumen Fund, Girl Scouts, Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneruship, Tanzania, Social Entrepreneur, A to Z, Impact News

How do you scale a social enterprise in a sustainable manner? The unlikely answer to the question is found in Girl Scout cookies, or more specifically, in the scaling strategy used by Girl Scouts nationwide to sell over 200 million boxes annually and generate over $700 million.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 4

Ken White | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Drought, Zebra, Global Climate Change, African Safari, Tanzania, Wildebeest, Serengeti, Wildlife, The Great Migration, San Francisco News

We drove home, reliving and feeling confident in our promise to remember forever what we witnessed today. And hoping for rain.

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Oddballs Of The African Bush

Eliza Deacon | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Tanzania Travel, Africa, Safari Travel, Luxury-Safaris, Travel, Tanzania, African-Safaris, Safari, Wildlife, Travel News

We came across this elephant cow near the Mara river with a bizarrely twisted tusk.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 3

Ken White | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Cheetah, Lion, Elephants, Africa, African Animals, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA, Evolution, Tanzania, Hippo, Safari, Phs-Spca, San Francisco News

Everywhere I turn, I am struck by strong and conflicting realities: the beauty of being here, and the fact that it is my own species' presence which has put this all at such risk.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 2

Ken White | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: African Safari, Wildlife Conservation, Leopard Tortoise, Wildlife, Safaris, Tanzania Safari, Tanzania, Safari, San Francisco News

I've cared for dozens of these animals over the years, neglected and discarded exotic pets I've helped to rescue and recover. This is really part of the hope and the magic of this journey: to see animals where they truly belong.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania

Ken White | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: African Wildlife, Tanzania, Elephants, Africa, Safari, Wildlife Safaris, Tanzania Safari, Tanzania Travel, San Francisco News

Back when my wife and I first married we promised ourselves that someday we'd travel to Africa and see the elephants and lions. We just fulfilled that promise by celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary on safari to Tanzania.

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PHOTOS: 8 Best Party Beaches In The World

BootsnAll | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Thailand, Bootsnall, Australia, Boracay, Brazil, Koh Phangan, Tel Aviv, Travel, Spain, Philippines, Ibiza, Zanzibar, Rio De Janeiro, Florida, Tanzania, South Beach, Israel, Miami, Surfers Paradise, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Expect to see voluptuous topless ladies, as some of the most beautiful people in the world are on display here.

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PHOTOS: The World's 9 Most Dangerous Landing Strips

Off Track Planet | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Africa, Landing, Tibet, Scotland, Airports, Travel, Thailand, Netherlands, Bangkok, France, Ecuador, Dangerous, Honduras, Tanzania, Runway, Greenland, Flying, Dangerous Runways, Dangerous Airports, Slidepollajax, Travel News

You'll very likely set foot on the ground unscathed. Just take a nice deep breath and hope the strip you're landing on isn't feeling too cranky.

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10 Countries With the Largest Projected Population Growth: American Exceptionalism

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.01.2012

The US population is wealthier, older, less fertile and more influenced by immigration than the other countries projected to experience major population growth, so why is the U.S. population is expected to grow much more than other wealthy countries?

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PHOTOS: 10 Time-Sensitive Trips

Ondine Cohane | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: England, Italy, Cambodia, Slidepollajax, Tanzania, Maldives, Portugal, Myanmar, Japan, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Looking for destinations to head to right now? From newly emerging hubs to hotspots at there zenith, here are my top ten choices.

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PHOTOS: The World's Best Places To Sleep In

JustLuxe | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Australia, Four-Star Hotels, Southern California, Slidepollajax, San Francisco, Belize, Exotic Vacations, Tanzania, Maldives, Bora Bora, Portugal, Travel Photography, Travel News

These beds are currently occupied by those who played 2011 right. Let us learn from their examples.

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