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Maasai views: pastoralist women and climate change in Northern Tanzania

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Pastoralist women in East Africa live in harsh and changing landscapes. Join us to learn how Maasai women from Tanzania perceive and fight climate change, and contribute to solutions to incorporate women’s views into interventions to reduce climate change vulnerability, conserving key wildlife corridors through integrated rangeland management.
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Pastoralist women in Northern Tanzania are both the main victims of man-driven climate change and land degradation, and a force for positive change. Women also hold great responsibility for illegal tree cutting for charcoal making, often the only resource for quick income during crises. Rangeland degradation, affecting 60% of Northern Tanzania, has dramatically increased household insecurity for hundreds of thousands of pastoralists, nonetheless, pastoralism is the only livelihood thriving in these wildlife-rich communal lands. Wild dogs, cheetahs, lions, caracal, elephants, gerenuk, lesser kudu, oryx, are among the threatened species still roaming outside protected areas. Through the eyes of Maasai pastoralist women and participatory photography – they took pictures to portray their perception of climate change and the impacts on their lives - we will stimulate a discussion on integrated, gender-sensitive models to reduce their vulnerability.

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