Honeyguide visited west Kilimanjaro this week and met several farmers, ranch owners and general members of the community. West Kilimanjaro faces Longido and Amboseli, wildlife in the area move between these areas and often come into conflict with agriculture. West Kilimanjaro is densely populated and the bush meat trade is growing. Elephants are moving from Amboseli through Longido to Kilimanjaro, recently a number of
A useful guide to better waste management, this toolkit provides guidelines, ideas, examples and information to help the hospitality industry to improve management of their solid waste. Primarily this publication was designed for Zanzibar, however this is a practical approach that will help any hotelier, restaurateur or camp manager improve their waste management with helpful hints
Find a home for all your rubbish, this small publication provides contact details of different waste recycling companies and organizations based in Arusha and Dar es Salaam. For your rubbish such as plastics, glass and metals, there is a commercial value to these items and different companies based in Arusha and Dar es Salaam will
Researching opportunities for partnerships and models for community conservation, the Honeyguide Foundation visited the Maasai Preservation Trust based in the Chyulu Hills near Amboseli. The Maasailand Preservation Trust (MPT) was founded in 1992 by Richard Bonham in response to the increasing conflict between the ecosystem and its human inhabitants. Given the rapid population growth rates
A group of farmers in Merenga were kindly donated an irrigation pipe for their farm by travelers who were staying in one of the tourists camps in the Serengeti National Park.
Honeyguide Foundation have sent their first newsletter out to their email subscribers. Honeyguide Foundation will be sending newsletters to friends and members to let them know what we are up to about every 2 months. The newsletters will be brief and will just keep you posted with what we are currently doing, we will also let you know
Honeyguide have two volunteer opportunities available. One where the volunteer is to assist with the development of a website on Responsible Tourism, providing general knowledge and facts. A step by step process that will guide the hotels and lodges ‘how to implement’ responsible tourism and contain an online self evaluation tool. The second is to
The Matemwe football team has received some new football gear from the Honeyguide Foundation as part of the community project that supports sports, health, and a clean environment. The football team did a fantastic job of helping clean up their village.
Laurent Lushinge, project manager for the Serengeti Small Business Project has decided to move back to his hometown of Mbeya. Laurent has been with Honeyguide since its inception in January 2008.
Honeyguide's Director, Damian Bell, has arrived back in Arusha from his Kenyan trip where he visited Northern Rangelands Trust. The purpose of the trip was to learn about NRT practices and to see how these practices may be applied in Tanzania's own rangelands.