#maasai — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #maasai, aggregated by home.social.
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..But now the government is more determined than ever. #Maasai elders are calling for our support because they simply don't have the money for expensive legal battles, and time is running out.
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..But now the government is more determined than ever. #Maasai elders are calling for our support because they simply don't have the money for expensive legal battles, and time is running out.
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#Avaaz: The #Tanzanian government has been on the attack for years -- burning homes and trying to evict entire Maasai communities to clear the way for elephant hunting and luxury tourism.
Now two presidential commissions are openly pushing for mass evictions, and thousands of families could lose access to water, medical care, and grazing rights in weeks.
The Maasai don't just live in #Ngorongoro -- their entire way of life is deeply woven into the grasslands, rivers, and open plains. They've successfully protected these lands for generations, so it's no wonder that wildlife is abundant or that elephants give birth here. And that's exactly why the government wants these lands for trophy hunting.
We cannot let it happen.
Avaaz members provided ALL the funding for a critical court case that previously blocked mass evictions. But now the government is more determined than ever. #Maasai elders are calling for our support because they simply don't have the money for expensive legal battles, and time is running out.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaigns/launch_maasai_support_rb_loc/?
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#Avaaz: The #Tanzanian government has been on the attack for years -- burning homes and trying to evict entire Maasai communities to clear the way for elephant hunting and luxury tourism.
Now two presidential commissions are openly pushing for mass evictions, and thousands of families could lose access to water, medical care, and grazing rights in weeks.
The Maasai don't just live in #Ngorongoro -- their entire way of life is deeply woven into the grasslands, rivers, and open plains. They've successfully protected these lands for generations, so it's no wonder that wildlife is abundant or that elephants give birth here. And that's exactly why the government wants these lands for trophy hunting.
We cannot let it happen.
Avaaz members provided ALL the funding for a critical court case that previously blocked mass evictions. But now the government is more determined than ever. #Maasai elders are calling for our support because they simply don't have the money for expensive legal battles, and time is running out.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaigns/launch_maasai_support_rb_loc/?
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Maasai warriors, East Africa (Andrew Howat)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2113927/maasai-warriors-east-africa-andrew-howat
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Maasai warriors, East Africa (Andrew Howat)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2113927/maasai-warriors-east-africa-andrew-howat
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It seems, via T.V. documentaries, there has been eco-tourism & conservancy improvements since I wrote this #poem on #Maasai land rights - from WalkaboutsVerse, "Out of Place" http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walkaboutsverse-52-of-230.html
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Photographer Leaves Camera Trap in Remote Maasai Mara and Discovers Hidden Wildlife Highway https://petapixel.com/2026/04/21/photographer-leaves-camera-trap-in-remote-maasai-mara-and-discovers-hidden-wildlife-highway/ #willburrardlucas #remotecamera #cameratrap #maasaimara #Spotlight #Features #wildlife #africa #maasai
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Photographer Leaves Camera Trap in Remote Maasai Mara and Discovers Hidden Wildlife Highway https://petapixel.com/2026/04/21/photographer-leaves-camera-trap-in-remote-maasai-mara-and-discovers-hidden-wildlife-highway/ #willburrardlucas #remotecamera #cameratrap #maasaimara #Spotlight #Features #wildlife #africa #maasai
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It seems, via T.V. documentaries, there has been eco-tourism & conservancy improvements since I wrote this #poem on #Maasai land rights - from WalkaboutsVerse, "Out of Place" http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walkaboutsverse-52-of-230.html
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'Viererreihe' #FotoVorschlag
(four in a row) #Kenya #Maasai -
'Viererreihe' #FotoVorschlag
(four in a row) #Kenya #Maasai -
It seems, via T.V. documentaries, there has been eco-tourism & conservancy improvements since I wrote this #poem on #Maasai land rights - from WalkaboutsVerse, "Out of Place" http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walkaboutsverse-52-of-230.html
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Neu im Comenius-Antiquariat 30.7.2025.
https://buchantiquariat.com/de/neue-artikel
#antiquariat #buchantiquariat #books #comenius_antiquariat #Anarchismus #Faksimiledruck #Reprint #Politik #Helvetica #Schweiz #Bernensia #Bern #Bellmund #Seeland #Ethnologie #Voelkerkunde #Afrika #Film #Kino #Maasai #Geschlechterverhaeltnis -
Neu im Comenius-Antiquariat 30.7.2025.
https://buchantiquariat.com/de/neue-artikel
#antiquariat #buchantiquariat #books #comenius_antiquariat #Anarchismus #Faksimiledruck #Reprint #Politik #Helvetica #Schweiz #Bernensia #Bern #Bellmund #Seeland #Ethnologie #Voelkerkunde #Afrika #Film #Kino #Maasai #Geschlechterverhaeltnis -
"The government of #Tanzania evict #Maasai communities from supposed #conservation areas. It's ethnic cleansing for #safari business.
'"I unpacked the ways in which the Tanzanian authorities, in collaboration with global conservation and tourism actors, have implemented policies forcing Maasai communities to abandon their ancestral lands. This was done through conservation management plans that undermine the interests of local communities and traditional livelihoods. The ability of the Maasai to meet their needs was also limited, for instance through restricting their access to social services.
"'As a result, nearly all the 100,000 Maasai living within the Ngorongoro conservation area face extreme poverty.'"
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"The government of #Tanzania evict #Maasai communities from supposed #conservation areas. It's ethnic cleansing for #safari business.
'"I unpacked the ways in which the Tanzanian authorities, in collaboration with global conservation and tourism actors, have implemented policies forcing Maasai communities to abandon their ancestral lands. This was done through conservation management plans that undermine the interests of local communities and traditional livelihoods. The ability of the Maasai to meet their needs was also limited, for instance through restricting their access to social services.
"'As a result, nearly all the 100,000 Maasai living within the Ngorongoro conservation area face extreme poverty.'"
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Tanzania's Maasai Are Being Forced Off Their Ancestral Land - the Tactics the Government Uses https://allafrica.com/stories/202501170007.html #Maasai #Tanzania
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Tanzania's Maasai Are Being Forced Off Their Ancestral Land - the Tactics the Government Uses https://allafrica.com/stories/202501170007.html #Maasai #Tanzania
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Women of the Maasai tribe are responsible for securing food, water and fuel. The pastoralist communities are under strain as the climate crisis makes these resources scarcer.
Photograph: Abdulrahman Andrew Abel Pallango/Andalou Getty Images
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Women of the Maasai tribe are responsible for securing food, water and fuel. The pastoralist communities are under strain as the climate crisis makes these resources scarcer.
Photograph: Abdulrahman Andrew Abel Pallango/Andalou Getty Images
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[Short film] #Enchukunoto (The Return)
Laissa Malih with John Ole Tingoi (#Maasai)
"As the first female Maasai filmmaker, Laissa Malih initially set out to document the land-based practices of her forefathers and ways in which climate change is reshaping Maasai communities. In returning to the IL-Laikipiak Maasai village that her parents left when she was a child, Malih experiences an epiphany: her own life is a reflection of the myriad challenges between Maasai youth and elders, women and men, ancestral ways of passing down essential knowledge and modern methods of education.
"In ENCHUKUNOTO (The Return), Malih’s singular perspective also challenges ways in which the Maasai peoples have long been seen and documented by tourists and other outsiders. 'Many tourists come to our Maa lands to film the lions, the gazelles,' she observes. 'The camera takes and takes. I wonder what my camera can give my people in return?'
"Interweaving verite with Malih’s insights, Malih offers a heretofore unseen perspective as an insider and an outsider, a woman among men, a filmmaker carrying on sacred Maasai traditions of storytelling in an era defined by uncertainty."
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/enchukunoto
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #ProtectNature #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousAfricans #MassaiPeople #WomenDirectedFilms #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #FilmVerite -
[Short film] #Enchukunoto (The Return)
Laissa Malih with John Ole Tingoi (#Maasai)
"As the first female Maasai filmmaker, Laissa Malih initially set out to document the land-based practices of her forefathers and ways in which climate change is reshaping Maasai communities. In returning to the IL-Laikipiak Maasai village that her parents left when she was a child, Malih experiences an epiphany: her own life is a reflection of the myriad challenges between Maasai youth and elders, women and men, ancestral ways of passing down essential knowledge and modern methods of education.
"In ENCHUKUNOTO (The Return), Malih’s singular perspective also challenges ways in which the Maasai peoples have long been seen and documented by tourists and other outsiders. 'Many tourists come to our Maa lands to film the lions, the gazelles,' she observes. 'The camera takes and takes. I wonder what my camera can give my people in return?'
"Interweaving verite with Malih’s insights, Malih offers a heretofore unseen perspective as an insider and an outsider, a woman among men, a filmmaker carrying on sacred Maasai traditions of storytelling in an era defined by uncertainty."
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/enchukunoto
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #ProtectNature #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousAfricans #MassaiPeople #WomenDirectedFilms #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #FilmVerite -
Tanzania Govt: Stop auctioning Maasai land to carbon traders and trophy hunters #Tanzania #Maasai #environment #carbon #AnimalRights #TrophyHunting https://pages.greenpeaceafrica.org/tanzania-govt-stop-auctioning-maasai-land-to-carbon-traders-and-trophy-hunters
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Tanzania Govt: Stop auctioning Maasai land to carbon traders and trophy hunters #Tanzania #Maasai #environment #carbon #AnimalRights #TrophyHunting https://pages.greenpeaceafrica.org/tanzania-govt-stop-auctioning-maasai-land-to-carbon-traders-and-trophy-hunters
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Thousands of Indigenous Maasai have been forced from their land to make way for wealthy tourists & now they're being wiped from voter rolls in a government attempt to get the remaining brave few to leave
The Tanzanian president is successfully keeping this quiet so it won’t impact international funding
Let's change that
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/maasai_voting_rights_loc/?copy
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The #Indigenous #Maasai in #Tanzania have been forcibly displaced by the government - now they are being erased from #VoterRolls.
✍️🏻Help stop it here:
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#HRW to #Tanzania: Stop forcing #indigenous tribes off #ancestral lands
Voice of America
01 Aug 2024, 04:05 GMT+10Nairobi - "#HumanRightsWatch is accusing Tanzania of forcing indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in the #Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In a report released Wednesday, the rights group documents a Tanzanian government program to move 82,000 people off their land to use it for wildlife conservation, #tourism and hunting.
"The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania is a U.N. #WorldHeritageSite managed by the Tanzanian government. For centuries, the #Maasai tribe has lived in the area side by side with wild animals.
"In 2022, the government of Tanzania launched a program to encourage the voluntary relocation of the Maasai tribe from the conservation area to Msomera, a town about 600 kilometers (370 miles) away.
"However, what the government called a voluntary relocation plan was far from voluntary, Human Rights Watch says.
"Allan Ngari, the group's Africa advocacy director, said the forced movement of the people is against the Tanzanian constitution and international law.
"'There are clear violations, including the Maasai people's rights to consultation, including prior to planning and execution of the #relocation, the prohibition of #ForcedEvictions, which is happening even for #Msomera residents. And then their culture and development has been inhibited,' Ngari said. "So, there's just a general disregard of the obligations by the government that raises serious concerns about the prospects of any accountability, justice."
#IndigenousPeople #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousAfricans #Africa
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#HRW to #Tanzania: Stop forcing #indigenous tribes off #ancestral lands
Voice of America
01 Aug 2024, 04:05 GMT+10Nairobi - "#HumanRightsWatch is accusing Tanzania of forcing indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in the #Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In a report released Wednesday, the rights group documents a Tanzanian government program to move 82,000 people off their land to use it for wildlife conservation, #tourism and hunting.
"The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania is a U.N. #WorldHeritageSite managed by the Tanzanian government. For centuries, the #Maasai tribe has lived in the area side by side with wild animals.
"In 2022, the government of Tanzania launched a program to encourage the voluntary relocation of the Maasai tribe from the conservation area to Msomera, a town about 600 kilometers (370 miles) away.
"However, what the government called a voluntary relocation plan was far from voluntary, Human Rights Watch says.
"Allan Ngari, the group's Africa advocacy director, said the forced movement of the people is against the Tanzanian constitution and international law.
"'There are clear violations, including the Maasai people's rights to consultation, including prior to planning and execution of the #relocation, the prohibition of #ForcedEvictions, which is happening even for #Msomera residents. And then their culture and development has been inhibited,' Ngari said. "So, there's just a general disregard of the obligations by the government that raises serious concerns about the prospects of any accountability, justice."
#IndigenousPeople #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousAfricans #Africa
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Blog: #IndigenousPeoples are the custodians and protectors of our earth
09 August 2024
By Akil Crichlow, et al.
"Over 3.3 billion people are highly vulnerable to climate change, with socioeconomic factors like gender, class, race, clanship, and ethnicity exacerbating this, particularly for women, children in low-income households, and #IndigenousPeoples.
"Therefore, it is critical that an all-of-society approach is strengthened so that we mitigate and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, recover lost #biodiversity and degraded land, and deploy an #ecosystem-based adaptation model."
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"Across the Atlantic, to #Tanzania in #EastAfrica, pastoralists are another of the Commonwealth’s Indigenous peoples. They include the #Barabaig and the #Maasai, as well as #huntergatherers like the #Hadzabe, #Akiye and #Sandawe.
"These groups lead diverse livelihoods but share a profound connection to the land. However, they face significant challenges regarding land tenure security. Despite the challenges, hope is not lost."
Full article:
https://thecommonwealth.org/news/blog-indigenous-peoples-are-custodians-and-protectors-our-earth#IndigenousAfricans #Guyana #Africa #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesDay #SaveTheForest #IndigenousKnowledge #EnvironmentalCustodians #EarthProtectors #SolarPunkSunday #ProtectingNature
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Blog: #IndigenousPeoples are the custodians and protectors of our earth
09 August 2024
By Akil Crichlow, et al.
"Over 3.3 billion people are highly vulnerable to climate change, with socioeconomic factors like gender, class, race, clanship, and ethnicity exacerbating this, particularly for women, children in low-income households, and #IndigenousPeoples.
"Therefore, it is critical that an all-of-society approach is strengthened so that we mitigate and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, recover lost #biodiversity and degraded land, and deploy an #ecosystem-based adaptation model."
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"Across the Atlantic, to #Tanzania in #EastAfrica, pastoralists are another of the Commonwealth’s Indigenous peoples. They include the #Barabaig and the #Maasai, as well as #huntergatherers like the #Hadzabe, #Akiye and #Sandawe.
"These groups lead diverse livelihoods but share a profound connection to the land. However, they face significant challenges regarding land tenure security. Despite the challenges, hope is not lost."
Full article:
https://thecommonwealth.org/news/blog-indigenous-peoples-are-custodians-and-protectors-our-earth#IndigenousAfricans #Guyana #Africa #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesDay #SaveTheForest #IndigenousKnowledge #EnvironmentalCustodians #EarthProtectors #SolarPunkSunday #ProtectingNature
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Please see the latest report from our amazing East Africa team
Business as usual in bloodied land? Role of businesses in forced evictions in Loliondo, Tanzania
#Maasai
#Indigenous
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/08/private-businesses-in-tanzania-are-complicit-in-forced-evictions-of-maasai-communities-by-authorities/ -
"Il governo della #Tanzania sta trasferendo forzatamente i residenti indigeni #Maasai dalle loro case e dalle terre ancestrali nella #Ngorongoro Conservation Area."
#31luglio #HumanRights #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #capitalismo
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/31/tanzania-indigenous-maasai-being-forcibly-relocated
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"Il governo della #Tanzania sta trasferendo forzatamente i residenti indigeni #Maasai dalle loro case e dalle terre ancestrali nella #Ngorongoro Conservation Area."
#31luglio #HumanRights #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #capitalismo
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/31/tanzania-indigenous-maasai-being-forcibly-relocated
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It was a very special day for participants in Transition Chipping Norton's outdoor youth project which they run in partnership with Learn2Sustain.
They recently hosted a group from the Maasai community in Kenya, cooking lunch for them, exploring each others culture and lives, and sharing some fun and games.
People from all ages and projects in the Transition group later enjoyed a campfire supper and the chance to connect with each other at an ancient stone circle near the town, watching the sunset together and reflecting on the exchange and our common humanity.
Cara Hedges from the group said it reminded everyone "what we do here affects those that are in Africa, how simple their life is and how complex we’ve made ours and just spend some time reflecting on what we can do to support all of those that we are affecting with our choices.”
@tnlcommunityfund @learn2sustain #thisistransition #transitiontown #oxfordshire #crosscultural #communityaction #campfire #globaleducation #ecoeducation #youthwork #maasai
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It was a very special day for participants in Transition Chipping Norton's outdoor youth project which they run in partnership with Learn2Sustain.
They recently hosted a group from the Maasai community in Kenya, cooking lunch for them, exploring each others culture and lives, and sharing some fun and games.
People from all ages and projects in the Transition group later enjoyed a campfire supper and the chance to connect with each other at an ancient stone circle near the town, watching the sunset together and reflecting on the exchange and our common humanity.
Cara Hedges from the group said it reminded everyone "what we do here affects those that are in Africa, how simple their life is and how complex we’ve made ours and just spend some time reflecting on what we can do to support all of those that we are affecting with our choices.”
@tnlcommunityfund @learn2sustain #thisistransition #transitiontown #oxfordshire #crosscultural #communityaction #campfire #globaleducation #ecoeducation #youthwork #maasai
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In this week's #LongreadsTop5:
-Displacing the #Maasai (The Atlantic)
-The death of an #Alabama #pastor (Esquire)
-Alaska's little brown #bats (Hakai Magazine)
-A dispatch from an #AI conference (n+1)
-Remembering #ShaunOfTheDead (British GQ)Read why our editors picked these stories: https://longreads.com/2024/04/12/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-511/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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In this week's #LongreadsTop5:
-Displacing the #Maasai (The Atlantic)
-The death of an #Alabama #pastor (Esquire)
-Alaska's little brown #bats (Hakai Magazine)
-A dispatch from an #AI conference (n+1)
-Remembering #ShaunOfTheDead (British GQ)Read why our editors picked these stories: https://longreads.com/2024/04/12/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-511/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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URGENT: I just joined over 3 MILLION people urging the President of #Tanzania @SuluhuSamia to oppose the #eviction of the #Maasai people from their ancestral lands.
✍️🏻 Join here & RT #IStandwiththeMaasai
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/maasai_evictions_3_5/
