land-grabbing

They Just Rotted Inside and Died: A Hadzabe Update

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:03
FdN's picture

Mon, 07/23/2007 - 07:28 — An alert reader left a link to this article in the Daily Mail. By turns stereotypical and sensitive, the article reveals a few more details about the UAE trying to by Hadzabe land and the plight they are facing:

To the dismay of anthropologists and champions of the Earth's remaining tribal people, two wealthy Arab princes, who have made billions from oil and gas in the United Arab Emirates, are negotiating with the Tanzanian government to buy the Hadzabe's ancient lands to use as their own private hunting grounds.

News from the Hadzaland 1995

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 11:25
FdN's picture

For many years our organisation friends of Peoples close to Nature has been concerned with the survival of the Hadzabe in east Africa. The most respected Hadzabe elders have given their request to our organisation to submit a paper to express the severity of the situation facing the Hadzabe, (singular: Hadza). Along with the Sandawe they are the last remaining aboriginal tribes, of click lout speaking peoples in eastern Africa.

WHAT CHANCE, THE SURVIVAL PROSPECTS FOR EAST AFRICA'S LAST HUNTING & GATHERING TRIBE, THE HADZABE, IN A GAMELESS ENVIRONMENT ?

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 11:23
rains's picture

From 17th March until the 7th of April 1997, rains of f P c N England and Hartmut Heller from FdN Germany, visited their friends the Hadzabe, around lake Eyasi, in northern Tanzania. Our trip began from Arusha and headed north west via Karatu from, where we left the road that circumnavigates the Ngorongoro crater national park and headed south west to Mongola.