Why are Tanzania’s Maasai being forced off their ancestral land? | The Stream
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Tanzania has renewed efforts to evict thousands of indigenous people from their ancestral land in the north of the country. It’s a move that the government claims will help bolster the country’s tourism industry through big game hunting. The land in question is in Loliondo and is home to 70,000 Masaai people, a semi-nomadic ethnic group. The plan is to move the Maasai into the Ngorgongoro Conservation Area (NCA), a UNESCO designated World Heritage site for its global importance to biodiversity. It’s also home to some 80,000 previously evicted Maasai. For years, Tanzania has tried to gain control of the land in an attempt to create a trophy hunting corridor […]