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Baobab and acacia trees dot the savannah and elephants and predators roam in the Maasai Steppe Heartland, home to Tanzania’s Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Parks. Habitat fragmentation is the biggest threat to this landscape, a problem that AWF is addressing through innovative land use initiatives with local communities.

Conserving Wildlife

Preserving wildlife migration corridors, dispersal areas and breeding grounds.

AWF solutions in Maasai Steppe:

Protecting Land

Pioneering new conservation efforts through land trusts and community partnerships.

AWF solutions in Maasai Steppe:

Empowering People

Working with Maasai pastoralist communities to improve sustainable livelihoods through ecotourism and other conservation enterprises.

AWF solutions in Maasai Steppe:

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Because the Heartlands cover truly vast tracts of public and private land, cooperation by many public and private parties is required for success. Here are some of AWF's partners in the Maasai Steppe Heartland:

Africare
Fauna & Flora International
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Lee & Gund Foundation/Cultures of Resistance
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA)

Norad
Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA)
Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI)
The IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN NL)
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

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Philip Muruthi. African Heartlands: A Science-Based and Pragmatic Approach to Landscape Level Conservation in Africa. Technical Papers, 2005.

Edmund Barrow. Community Conservation Approaches and Experiences From East Africa. Technical Papers, 1993.

Deborah Snelson. Community Conservation Training Initiatives in East Africa. Technical Papers, 1993.

M. Northon-Griffiths. Counting Animals. Technical Papers, 1978.

Ezekiel Dembe and Patrick Bergin. Defining the 'Conservation' in Community Conservation: Strategic Planning in Tanzania National Parks. Technical Papers, 1994.

J.J.R. Grimsdell. Ecological Monitoring. Technical Papers, 1978.

African Wildlife Foundation. Final Report: An Examination of the Achievements and Effectiveness of the Planning and Assessment for Wildlife Management Project. Technical Papers, 1996.

Philip Muruthi. Human Wildlife Conflict: Lessons Learned From AWF's African Heartlands. Technical Papers, 2005.

Kadzo Kangwana. L'Etude des Elephants. Technical Papers, 1996.

John Makilya, Peter Lembuya, Paul Ntiati. Linking Enterprise To Conservation: Examples from Kenya. Technical Papers, 1993.

David Western and J.R.R. Grimsdell. Measuring the Distribution of Animals in Relation to the Environment. Technical Papers, 1979.

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