TANZANIA has taken another significant step in its environmental conservation journey with the launch of a new project ...

Tanzania's forests generate close to 20 per cent of national output, five times more than current government estimates, according to a new government-backed study. Researchers led by the Tanzania ...

Forest Landscape Restoration can contribute to improving livelihoods, protecting food crops, securing key habitats for animal species and reducing carbon emissions. The coastal and sub-montane forest ...

WWF Tanzania is a registered International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with local registration under the United Republic of Tanzania. It has legal status and formal agreement with Government ...

Magdalena Gwasuma, 60, with some of the oyster mushrooms she grows at her home near Babati town on the edge of the Nou forest in Tanzania's northern Manyara region. TRF/Kizito Makoye BABATI, Tanzania, ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania Jan 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A surge in illegal logging is devastating native forests in coastal Tanzania's Rufiji district, despite efforts by authorities to curb ...

Farmers in eastern Tanzania are regrowing rainforest trees on part of their land. The farmers receive payments from the sale of carbon credits to supplement their incomes and to compensate them for ...

A success story from Tanzania: an innovative tracking system is helping Tanzania Forest Services manage the country’s extensive forests, so that degraded woodland is springing back to life and illegal ...

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in Tanzania. Scientists have named the canopy-piercing tree Tessmannia princeps ...

Five new spooky-looking species of millipede have been discovered, one of which belongs to a totally unknown group of critters. The new species, which resemble something out of a sci-fi movie, were ...

With the government reportedly attracting over 20 corporations that want to invest over $20 billion (Sh46.9 trillion), the production and sale of carbon offsets are finally turning a profit in ...

BABATI, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Magdalena Gwasuma ducks carefully into a small, dark cage at the back of her house, where rows of fresh oyster mushrooms sit on wooden shelves. “I ...