By allAfrica
A pioneering carbon offset project run by Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania has been awarded the UN’s Equator Prize for conservation and sustainability at a ceremony in New York, along with 21 other indigenous groups that are using natural solutions to combat climate change.
For the past 40,000 years, the Hadza community has been living in the Yaeda valley just south of the equator, sandwiched between the salt planes of Lake Esayi and Mount Ngorongoro in northern Tanzania.
The Hadza are among the last surviving hunter-gather groups on the planet. Around 300 out of 1,200 Hadza people still live a traditional lifestyle
For decades, migrant farmers and cattle herders encroached on and eventually decimated the wildlife-rich savannah and woodlands where the Hadza roamed.
“Just few years ago we had no concept of owning land,” explains Ezekiel Phillipo, a representative of the Hadza group, who travelled to New York to pick up the Equator Prize at the United Nations’ headquarters. Read more>>
