Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south. To the east it borders the Indian Ocean.

Places, projects and networks

 * Sseesamirembe Eco-City

Topic links
Biodiversity

Tanzania has considerable wildlife habitat, including much of the Serengeti plain, where the white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi) and other bovids participate in a large-scale annual migration. Up to 250,000 wildebeest perish each year in the long and arduous movement to find forage in the dry season.

Tanzania is also home to 130 amphibian and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic and included in the IUCN Red Lists of different countries. Tanzania has developed a Biodiversity Action Plan to address species conservation.

Food

Global connections
 * Nkokoto, in Tanzania is twinned with Minchinhampton, South West England

Related topics

 * Green Belt Movement
 * Climate change justice
 * DATA 2006 progress report on G8 promises to Africa
 * Sasakawa prize
 * Local Community-based Biodiversity Conservation Films