Over late September and early October, Honeyguide Foundation welcomed an American security specialist to train rangers in the Enduimet WMA, Burunge WMA, and in Manyara Ranch. With support provided by a private donor, the specialist spent 16 days leading the capacity-building exercises for some 30 rangers. “We learned so much,” said Kateto Kashe, a Honeyguide
Elephant lovers have something to celebrate this week. On October 23, Honeyguide-supported rangers with the Burunge Wildlife Management Area (WMA) received a call from a tourist lodge about a baby elephant seemingly stuck to a tree. Immediately reporting to the scene, the highly-trained crew discovered that a female elephant, approximately 2-3 years old,
Honeyguide project manager Ole Kirimbai is managing a week long firearms training program for all the Enduimet village rangers, the ranger who recently acquired shot guns and .22 rifles for protection will have a week long training exercise. The training will cover various topics such as gun use and maintenance, safety and law. John Magembe and Ezekiel will be
Latest off the press- from the citizen newspaper-A vehicle belonging to a senior military official has been seized on allegations of ferrying ivory after a road chase that involved Manyara National park rangers on Friday evening. The event happens only weeks after police officers were caught with ivory in Serengeti National park and two others lynched
Honeyguide have been training 3 auditors for Responsible Tourism Tanzania. Damian Bell has been training the auditors over the past 23 months using various hotels and lodges as the platform for the training. The 3 auditors have been busy over the past few months training with the criteria and visiting a number of hotels and camps in and around
The Pan-African Ornithological Congress that was held in Arusha, Tanzania from the 14th to 21st October 2012 supported the Honeyguide Foundation. The conference was organized and run by the Honeyguide Foundation with the aim that the surplus funds from the conference would go to support the core costs of the organization. The conference raised over $18,000 for the Honeyguide
Africa Safari 3D, a film produced in Botswana, Nambia, Zambia and Tanzania have donated a new wing for the Microlight. The end of the film was shot in Enduimet with Kilimanjaro as the back drop. The microlight is used for both anti-poaching patrols from the air and also as a general management tool to see and understand changes
The Enduimet Village game scouts graduated after one month of intensive training that included firearms use and safety, first aid, discipline, wildlife law and more. For one month over 60 village game scouts training from 5am until sometimes 10pm in Tingatinga. The training was partly of a refresher course for many of the
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism have announced that the proposed tarmac road through the Serengeti National Park will not be developed. A tarmac road will be constructed from Makutano to Mugumu. The stretch from Mugumu to the park boundary and through the park, past Ololosokwan to Loliondo town will remain gravel. From Loliondo town through Natron to Mtu
Honeyguide present at the 2011 International joint meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation & Africa Section of the Society for Conservation Biology. The Importance of Tourism to Community Conservation was the topic that was presented by Damian Bell in the group that addressed Community-based conservation and development; What is working and Why. This was