A Double-Edged Sword for Development: A Narrative of Wildlife Crop Damage
Wildlife, as profitable for Tanzania as it is, can be a double-edged sword for developmental progress: Crop destruction poses a serious thre
Challenges in the Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park, Tanzania: Past and present
In March 2018 I visited Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park (MBREMP) in Mtwara as part of a field research trip with the coastal working group of the NEPSUS project to carry out data collection. The trip was a memorable event in my career as it provided an opportunity to gauge changes that might have occurred since the time I worked with MBREMP in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Between 2007 and 2014 I was at MBREMP occasionally, with a substantial amount of my time spent in
How to survive on 'leftovers of nighttime spinach': Local narratives of human-wildlife inter
‘We grow crops for elephants and eat what they leave after their feasts’, Juma, resident of Tapika village in Rufiji district Recently, I was part of the NEPSUS survey team visiting households in villages adjacent to the Selous Game Reserve in Kilwa and Rufiji Districts, Tanzania. One of the sampled heads of households at Tapika village was Juma (not his real name). A hamlet leader took me to where Juma was, guarding his farm. Near his log seat, he had gathered a bunch of sma
