Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo

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1. Story
2. Relocation from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Msomera village in Handeni district, about 600 km away, began on 16 June 2022; days earlier, on 10 June 2022, security forces demarcating a game reserve boundary in Loliondo fired on Maasai residents, wounding dozens. Human Rights Watch and the Oakland Institute document relocation without free, prior and informed consent, service withdrawal used as pressure, and destination sites lacking water and grazing. The Tanzanian government characterises the programme as voluntary relocation with compensation, necessary to reduce population and livestock pressure on a World Heritage landscape. Reported plans have referenced relocating on the order of 82,000 people by 2027, within a wider figure of about 150,000 pastoralists affected across Ngorongoro district; these planning figures are reported, contested and should not be treated as a count of people moved.
3. Knowledge
4. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
5. Maasai
6. Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA)
7. Fortress conservation
8. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
9. Connections
10. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
11. Maasai
12. Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA)
13. Fortress conservation
14. Serengeti National Park
15. Maasai
16. Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA)
17. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
18. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
19. Amboseli National Park
20. Serengeti National Park
21. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
22. Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
23. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
24. Amboseli gazetted as a national park, removing Maasai rights inside the boundary
25. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
26. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
27. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
28. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
29. Community conservancy (CBNRM model)
30. Etosha National Park
31. Kruger National Park
32. Serengeti National Park
33. Etosha proclaimed Game Reserve No. 2 by the German colonial administration
34. Kruger National Park constituted from the Sabi and Shingwedzi reserves
35. Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
36. Makuleke community forcibly removed from Pafuri into Kruger National Park
37. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
38. Evidence
39. Maasai residents of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are being relocated to Msomera in Handeni district without free, prior and informed consent, with withdrawal of health, education and water services used as pressure to move.
40. The Tanzanian relocation plan for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area targets tens of thousands of residents, and destination sites lack adequate water and grazing while promised services remain undelivered.
41. Two 1959 statutes closed Serengeti National Park to human habitation and created the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (about 8,292 km2) as a multiple-land-use area for Maasai evicted from the plains; Maasai residents state in their own submission that permanent residence and grazing were the consideration for leaving the Serengeti, and that later restrictions and the relocation programme break that undertaking.