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The Loliondo Report
This report explores the negative impacts on Maasai communities, wildlife, and their shared habitat by the Ortello Business Company, a United Arab Emirates hunting company operating in the Loliondo Game Controlled Area in northern Tanzania.

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March 21, 2005
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Commercial hunting blocks should be audited
By Pigmi Maori

In the year 2000, a number of Maasai elders travelled from Arusha Region
(Loliondo and Ngorongoro in particular) to Dar es Salaam where they
protested practices done by Ortello Business Company (OBC) and demanded government action against the hunting firm.

Specifically they wanted the firm to stop the haphazard killing of wildlife
that was responsible for the declining population of some species like lion,
leopard and zebras in the northern part of the country.

Their travel to Dar es Salaam was preceded by a gathering of over 20,000
Maasai at a site where the firm was constructing a mansion to protest the
degradation and what they called 'land alienation' caused by the company.

maasai children and adults

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March 21, 2005 Click here for the entire article.

March 21, 2005
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