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Local people protect nature in Tanzania’s biodiversity hotspot
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Local people protect nature in Tanzania’s biodiversity hotspot
In 2001, German biologist Viola Clausnitzer was working in the Amani-SigiForest in Tanzania’s East Usambara Mountains when she spotted something special.
Amani flatwing (Amanipodagrion gilliesi)/credit. german biologist viola clausnitzer.
At a small, boulder-strewn stream in the dense forest, she had found a kind of dragonfly that had not been seen since 1962, when it was first described for science. “It was exciting,” says Clausnitzer. “Virtually nothing was known about its ecology, behaviour and habitat.”
The dragonfly was anAmaniflatwing (
Amanipodagriongilliesi). It is today known from just one location and is considered to be critically-endangered. But it is just one of many rare and threatened species that are found nowhere else on Earth than in the East Usambara Mountains. They include birds and snakes and frogs and plants. With
TIGO Green for Kili campaign which seeks to plant over 28,000 trees at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro to restore its virginity and help reclaim its thawing ice cap has received 7,000 tree seedlings from Helios Towers Tanzania Limited.
IT has been a routine for a 41-year-old Holiness Marko to wake up early in the morning to go and collect dead wood in the Kilimanjaro National Park (KINAPA) one of the country's 22 parks managed by the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA).