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United front to fight renewal of Emirates hunting contract
Loliondo is a key corridor for the wildebeest migration between Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Serengeti National Park in Masai Mara in Kenya. Photo/FILE
Posted Monday, August 16 2010 at 00:00
“It was further agreed that during the hunting season, communities would refrain from grazing their livestock in the hunting area. This agreement was breached at the instigation of local non governmental organisations, CBOs and some photographic operators in the Loliondo area,” she said.
According to Ms Mwangunga, the agreement had been adhered by the communities until 2006, when some of their members started constructing new bomas, farming and bringing in large numbers of cattle during the hunting season.
Ortello’s Mr Mollel said, “The company has been paying the central government its annual dues amounting to $560,000 as well as $150,000 to the eight villages around the Loliondo Game Controlled Area as well as $109,000 to Ngorongoro District Council.”
Records show that no other district in Tanzania containing hunting areas receives this level of funds for community development from the hunting business.
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These hunters were imposed on the villages under very corrupt circumstances in 1992 and it’s time for the renewals of the contract – and the anti-pastoralist drive of the Tz government - to be stopped. I visited Loliondo early this year as a tourist and asked some questions mostly about another case: http://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2010/03/sukenya-farm-conflict-what-thomson.html Btw, the correct mane of the company written about in the article is Otterlo Business Corporation Ltd.
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