Maasai tribes people are being uprooted to make way for lucrative carbon credit and conservation schemes, activists say.

Tanzania’s government is evicting tens of thousands of traditional herders from breathtaking natural habitats.

For Lemayain Ikoyo, a Maasai herder from Kenya, UMC has reduced his reliance on financial intermediaries and now receives payment directly from buyers in the neighbouring Tanzania who also share ...

The Maasai community living along the Kenya-Tanzania boarder has embraced the use of ‘Umoja Coin (UMC)', a digital currency ...

They work alongside nomadic herders saving wild horses in Mongolia, citizen scientists increasing pollinator diversity in the Bronx, Maasai women pursuing equity and sustainability in Kenya, and ...

Perhaps that day will come. But for now, cows are growing more important, not less so (see chart 1). The UN’s Food and ...

Ochuroi (right), a Maasai herder, explains the problems he faces because of drought as staff from a local organisation who are supporting his community listen. “For everyone who exalts himself will be ...

A widely known tale about tanzanite’s origin is as follows: In 1967, Maasai herders discovered blue crystals in the Merelani Hills near Arusha, Tanzania while tending livestock. They quickly alerted a ...

NAIROBI - A crowd erupts in cheers as a young Maasai woman pelts over the finish line, the latest participant in the "Maasai Olympics", a re-imagining of a traditional coming-of-age rite in the ...

A crowd erupts in cheers as a young Maasai woman pelts over the finish line, the latest participant in the “Maasai Olympics,” a re-imagining of a traditional coming-of-age rite in the rolling Kenyan ...