by Owen Kibenge
Terrence McCabe. Credit: Bert Covert.
When locals started showing up with machine guns, AAAS Member and newly elected 2020 AAAS Fellow Dr. Terrence McCabe decided that it became too dangerous to continue exploring communities in Kenya’s Turkana county. Instead, he turned his career on the Badlands of northern Kenya and went south, where he would be happier to be more worried about lions than the guys with machine guns,” he says.
For 31 years now, McCabe – who is the Director of Environment and Society Program of the Institute of Behavioral Science and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder – has been working in northern Tanzania on several projects in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Simanjiro plains to the east of Tarangire National Park. This is a lush landscape where the Maasai, a pastoralist community, grazes their livestock alongside lions, elephants and rhinos.
New findings of early man at tourist site Olduvai Gorge
January 23, 2021
Olduvai Gorge is a key tourist site where visitors can learn about human evolution and prehistory. The site and new museum attract local and international tourists to visit and experience what it may have felt like to live as the earliest man did.
An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has discovered a large collection of two million years old stone tools, fossilized bones, and plant materials at the Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania.
Newly-discovered stone reveals that the earliest humans used diverse, rapidly-changing environments in Africa to run early life on Earth. Dating as far back as 2.6 million years ago, the newly-discovered tools were likely manufactured by the early humans. Olduvai Gorge is now a key Tanzania tourist site where visitors can learn about human evolution and prehistory.
Wildlife conservation in style with a feel for African communities
January 16, 2021
In Ngorongoro in Tanzania, local communities are benefiting directly from tourism gains accrued from over 600,000 tourists visiting the park every year. In a partnership, the animals and the communities live together peacefully where poaching is not tolerated. This is a win-win situation promoting sustainable tourism as well as the livelihood of the people.
Counted as the best tourist magnet in Tanzania and Africa, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in northern Tanzania stands as a good example of wildlife conservation – a place in the world where wild animals and humans live together in peace, sharing pastures and other resources available within the conservation area.
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Unbelievable Images of a Wild Mother Lion Nursing a Leopard Cub Will Leave You Speechless (VIDEO) 4 months ago
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A few years ago, the organization Panthera, which is devoted to the conservation of the world’s forty wild cat species and their habitats, received a set of incredible pictures from their partners at KopeLion – the first-ever evidence of a wild lioness nursing a leopard cub. The photos, taken in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, show a five-year-old lion female, locally known as Nosikitok, suckling a tiny leopard cub, estimated to be just three weeks old.