This Land is Our Land: Protection leads to repurchase

Under the ancient baobab tree the celebration begins. The Hadza hunter-gatherers are joined by the District Commissioner of Mbulu, James Kheri, who is officiating the buying back of land that once belonged to the Hadza. Less than 1000 Hadza still live a traditional, semi nomadic life in their ancestral rangelands in the Yaeda Valley, moving […]
Carbon Tanzania’s response to recent articles on forest carbon credits

By Marc Baker, and Jo Anderson, Founders, Carbon Tanzania We are sitting on the Chingole Ridge in southern Tanzania, discussing recent articles on carbon credits. About 100 metres away – and 80 metres lower – we can see a dense, green forest. Yet here it is gravely; a stunted, Miombo woodland. If you were to […]
Who will, and who should be allowed to, fund COP26’s zero-deforestation promises?

In case you didn’t notice, COP26 started on Monday in Glasgow. The big news on Tuesday was that world leaders who had gathered together for the summit promised to end deforestation by 2030. This was the first big headline announcement from the meeting, and, setting aside the natural scepticism that accompanies these grandiose statements, it is a hugely […]
A Rangers Perspective – Protecting Makame

Carbon Tanzania works with forest communities in Tanzania to protect community owned, threatened forests. The contracts we develop with the communities stipulates that it is our responsibility to develop the carbon project and sell the resulting carbon credits, and that it is the communities’ responsibility to determine the mechanics of how they will protect their […]
Deforestation – 10 Facts & How You Can Help Stop the Destruction

Pledges to reduce deforestation from global corporations and governments have dramatically increased in the past two years, but actual progress remains to be seen with deforestation rates still higher than they were a decade ago. In 2018 the planet lost an area of primary rainforest the size of Belguim, and in August 2019 we have all […]
Carbon Tanzania – 2016 Impact Report

Carbon Tanzania’s 2016 Annual Report – Click here download our interactive 2016 Annual Report poster.
Avoided Deforestation to Benefit Chimpanzees and the Community

Designing a project area around our closest living relative whilst creating land security and economic opportunity. As I sit here, perched on the top of a rocky outcrop, looking over seemingly endless rolling hills of Miombo woodland east of Mahale National Park in western Tanzania, its quite easy to feel as if the nearest human settlement […]
5 Quick Tips to Reduce your Festive Season Emissions

While the festive season is the “most wonderful time of the year” for many, it is not such a wonderful time for our environment. As we celebrate the end of another year with parties and relishing in a little over indulgence, we end up consuming more goods, wasting more and consequently producing more carbon emissions […]