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The (accidentally) responsible tourist

It doesn't only take eco-warriors to protect the environment. Karoline Hanks ventures to one of Southern Africa's most protected, but sadly not unspoilt beaches, and explains how  even  holidaymakers can make a difference. ©Ingrid Taylar By   Karoline Hanks It is difficult venturing to wild places - locally and abroad - when one is tuned into some of the planet’s more pressing environmental ills. I sometimes wish I could just go on holiday and set my “green-heat-seeking goggles” aside. I have tried, but I just cannot do it. By travelling to one of the more remote corners of South Africa’s coastline earlier this year, I had thought it would be a chance to get away from many, if not all of humanity’s bruising habits. Astoundingly, I was wrong. From the north-eastern border with Mozambique down to just south of the town of St Lucia, lies the most splendid 220km stretch of wild and relatively undeveloped coastline. It is soul food at its del...

AMKA NA MAGAZETI NA TUMBUSI BLOG

Ni asubuhi nyingine tena nakukutanisha na habari kubwa kwenye Magazeti ya Tanzania leo October 3 2017 kuanzia ya Udaku, Michezo na Hardnews. 

After Deadly Mass Shooting, White House Says It’s ‘Premature’ To Discuss Guns

Following the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, President Donald Trump on Monday offered his sympathy to the victims, but made no mention of America’s pervasive gun violence either in his tweets or his prepared statement from the White House. More than 50 were dead and hundreds more injured after Stephen Paddock, 64, began shooting at the thousands of attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Festival from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel in Las Vegas. When police breached his room at the Mandalay Bay hotel, they said they found Paddock dead of an apparent self-inflicted wound. He had at least 10 guns, they added. Some hours after his tweet Monday morning, Trump read prepared remarks from the White House, called the shooting “an act of pure evil” and commended first responders and local officials. Not mentioned in statements from Trump and the White House: the issue of guns. When asked at Monday’s White House press briefing whether Trump would consider gu...

Tumbusi hatarini kupotea katika hifadhi za Ruaha na Katavi ikiwa juhudi za makusudi za kiuhifadhi hazitachukuliwa

Wakazi wa Kijiji cha Tungamalenga wilayani Iringa, mkoani Iringa kutoka katika jamii kimaasai wakitumbwiza wakati wa maadhimisho ya Siku ya Kimataifa ya Ufuatiliaji wa Tumbusi ndege wala mizoga juzi. (Picha na Friday Simbaya) Tumbusi ndege wala mizoga wapo kwenye hatari kubwa kutoweka kwa vile idadi yao kubwa wamekuwa wakiuawa kwa sumu na baadhi ya wanavijiji kwa mujibu tafiti zilizofanyika na zinazoendelea kufanyika Afrika mashariki na Afrika kwa ujumla. Kwa mujibu mratibu msaidizi masuala ya ikolojia kutoka shirika lisilo la kiserikali linalo husika na uhifadhi wa wanayampori (WCS) Iringa Msafiri Mgumba alisema hayo jana katika Siku ya Kimataifa ya Uelimishaji jamii kuhusu Tumbusi, Utafiti unaoendelea kufanyika kwenye eneo la kiikolojia la Ruaha-Katavi unaonesha kuwa changamoto hiyo ipo pia na hifadhi za Taifa za Ruaha na Katavi na Mapori ya Akiba yanayozunguka hifadhi hizo ni eneo muhimu la kiikolojia kwenye uhifadhi wa ndege aina ya Tumbusi.. ...