Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: Fragmentation of a Unique Region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem

Galvin, Kathleen A.; Thornton, Philip K.; Boone, Randall B.; Knapp, Linda M.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4906-4_11

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“…Disease may also restrict access to fragments within landscapes. For example, in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of Tanzania, livestock have to be removed from the Serengeti Plains in the wet season to prevent infection from wildebeest (McCabe, 1992;Mduma et al, 1999;Galvin et al, 2008b).…”

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Fragmentation of rangelands: Implications for humans, animals, and landscapes

Hobbs

Galvin

Stokes

et al. 2008

Global Environmental Change

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Fragmentation of rangelands: Implications for humans, animals, and landscapes

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Stokes

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Global Environmental Change

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“…The lack of adequate water to meet the daily requirements of humans, livestock, and wild animals was also a recurring concern. Both the human and the wildlife population in the NCA have increased substantially between the 1960s and now (Galvin et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania

Hovden

Paasche²,

Nyanza

et al. 2020

Qual Health Res

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Bottom-up public health interventions are needed which are built on an understanding of community perspectives. Project SHINE is a community-based participatory action research intervention focused on developing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene strategies with Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania. The aim of the study is to understand perceptions related to water quality and scarcity as well as to assess the potential of the Biosand Filter as a low-cost, low-tech water treatment option. To avoid unintended harms, the community was engaged in identifying potential harms and mitigation strategies prior to the implementation of the filter.Two in-depth interviews and two group discussions were analyzed using thematic content analysis, while three think tanks were analyzed using directed content analysis. The findings highlight a range of concerns regarding water scarcity and quality. The think tank approach was an effective means of engaging the community in identifying potential unintended harms across four dimensions: the physical, psychosocial, economic, and cultural contexts. In addition, two external themes emerged as salient: political harm and harm by omission.

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“…Since tourist infrastructure claims a lot of the water remaining within the NCA, the Maasai's highland resource caches are becoming congested, which exacerbates livestock disease conditions. Combined with increases in human populations, established forms of pastoralism in the region are no longer fully viable, and cultivation restrictions and limited access to participation in the tourism industry impede the Maasai's livelihood diversification options within the NCA (Galvin et al, 2008;Hodgson, 2011: 64-75).…”

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“…Rather than assuming the existence of stable and pre-ordained social contexts and forces, an ANT framework has the analyst instead regard 'society' and 'the social' as transient associations between exceedingly diverse types of actants (Latour, 2005) that may be mobilised on vast scales (Latour, 1993b: 96-124). In addition to the aforementioned political-economic forces that the Oldupai Maasai face -such as lucrative safari tourism that contrib-utes to eviction from lands, along with neoliberal reductions in social service expenditures -a potent force is the erroneous and influential view of Maasai pastoralists as archaic (Galaty, 2002;Galvin et al, 2008;Hodgson, 2011;Nelson, 2012). When promoters, writers, and artists depict Maasai peoples as timeless, Oldupai's locals appear premodern (Latour, 1993b).…”

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Enacting Maasai and Palaeoanthropological Versions of Drought in Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania

Lee

Koromo²,

Mercader

et al. 2020

S&TS

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While palaeoanthropologists have travelled to Tanzania’s renowned human origins site of Oldupai Gorge for over a century, lasting collaboration has yet to be established with the Maasai pastoralists who inhabit the area. This paper uses actor-network-theory and the concept of enactment to compare palaeoanthropological and Maasai livelihoods and to explore why collaboration has been infrequent. Here we show that both groups’ subsistence strategies had to effectively navigate large political-economic contexts. To support their respective livelihoods, scientists and locals expertly acquired resources in non-scientific and non-pastoral worlds. Both Maasai peoples and researchers created and multiplied reality and ontologies by enacting composite – yet conflicting – versions of hybrid drought. The exigencies associated with palaeoanthropological and Maasai subsistence have hindered meaningful collaboration between the groups, despite the fact that members of both dug in the Gorge to address drought. While the legitimisation of scientific ontologies is ultimately well-intentioned, Maasai drought unfortunately remains unaddressed.

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Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: Fragmentation of a Unique Region of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

Fragmentation of rangelands: Implications for humans, animals, and landscapes

Fragmentation of rangelands: Implications for humans, animals, and landscapes

Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania

Enacting Maasai and Palaeoanthropological Versions of Drought in Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania

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