Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Glossary
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Ngorongoro District, west of Arusha City in Arusha Region, within the Crater Highlands geological area of northeastern Tanzania.[1]
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- 1959 establishments in Tanganyika
- Biosphere reserves of Tanzania
- Calderas of Africa
- East African montane forests
- Geography of Arusha Region
- Important Bird Areas of Tanzania
- Serengeti volcanic grasslands
- Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- Tourist attractions in the Arusha Region
- Volcanoes of Tanzania
- World Heritage Sites in Tanzania
African buffalo
The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine.
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African leopard
The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the nominate subspecies of the leopard, native to many countries in Africa.
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African wild dog
The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the painted dog or Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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African Wildlife Foundation
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is an international conservation organization created with the intent of preserving Africa's wildlife, wild lands, and natural resources.
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Arusha
Arusha City is a Tanzanian city, with a population of 617,631, Population of the major cities in Tanzania and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 2,356,255 (2022 census).
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Arusha Region
Arusha Region (Mkoa wa Arusha) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions and is located in the northeast of the country.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
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Black rhinoceros
The black rhinoceros, black rhino or hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern Africa and southern Africa, including Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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Blue wildebeest
The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded gnu or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest.
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Caldera
A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.
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Canine distemper
Canine distemper virus (CDV) (sometimes termed "footpad disease") is a viral disease that affects a wide variety of mammal families, including domestic and wild species of dogs, coyotes, foxes, pandas, wolves, ferrets, skunks, raccoons, and felines, as well as pinnipeds, some primates, and a variety of other species.
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Common eland
The common eland (Taurotragus oryx), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a large-sized savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa.
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Corrugated galvanised iron
Corrugated galvanised iron (CGI) or steel, colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or custom orb / corro sheet (Australia) is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised mild steel, cold-rolled to produce a linear ridged pattern in them.
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Cowbell
A cowbell (or cow bell) is a bell worn around the neck of free-roaming livestock so herders can keep track of an animal via the sound of the bell when the animal is grazing out of view in hilly landscapes or vast plains.
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Crater Highlands
The Crater Highlands or Ngorongoro Volcanic Highlands (Milima kasoko ya Ngorongoro, in Swahili) are a geological region along the East African Rift in the Arusha Region and parts of northern Manyara Region in north Tanzania. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Crater Highlands are geography of Arusha Region and Volcanoes of Tanzania.
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Daily News (Tanzania)
The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Tanzania, the second-largest economy in the East African Community.
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Datooga people
The Datooga (Wamang'ati in Swahili) are a Nilotic ethnic people group from Tanzania, located in Karatu District of Arusha Region and historically in areas of southwest Manyara Region and northern Singida Region.
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Dracaena hanningtonii
Dracaena hanningtonii, synonym Sansevieria ehrenbergii, (blue sansevieria, sword sansevieria, oldupai, or East African wild sisal) is a flowering plant which grows in northeastern and eastern tropical Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania) and the Arabian Peninsula (Oman and Saudi Arabia).
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East African Rift
The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.
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German East Africa
German East Africa (GEA; Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.
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Grant's gazelle
Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti) is a relatively large species of gazelle antelope, distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria.
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Grant's zebra
Grant's zebra (Equus quagga boehmi) is the smallest of the seven subspecies of the plains zebra.
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Gregory Rift
The Gregory Rift (Ufa la Gregori, in Swahili) is the eastern branch of the East African Rift fracture system.
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Half-graben
A half-graben is a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults.
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Hartebeest
The hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), also known as kongoni or kaama, is an African antelope.
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Hippopotamus
The hippopotamus (hippopotamuses or hippopotami; Hippopotamus amphibius), also shortened to hippo (hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Hominidae
The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') remain.
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Homo habilis
Homo habilis ('handy man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3 million years ago to 1.65 million years ago (mya).
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Hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.
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Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.
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Impala
The impala or rooibok (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.
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Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
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Jackal
Jackals are canids native to Africa and Eurasia.
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Lake Eyasi
Lake Eyasi (Ziwa Eyasi; formerly Njarasasee, "Njarasa Lake", and Hohenlohesee, "Hohenlohe Lake") is a lake located in Karatu District of Arusha Region in north Tanzania. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and lake Eyasi are geography of Arusha Region and important Bird Areas of Tanzania.
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Lake Magadi (Ngorongoro)
Lake Magadi, also spelled Lake Magad, is a shallow soda lake in the southwest of the Ngorogoro crater in northeastern Tanzania, is often inhabited by thousands of mainly lesser flamingoes.
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Lesser flamingo
The lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) is a species of flamingo occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and western India.
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Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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List of Ngorongoro Crater plants
Below is an alphabetical list of plants occurring in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and list of Ngorongoro Crater plants are Biosphere reserves of Tanzania, Volcanoes of Tanzania and world Heritage Sites in Tanzania.
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List of reduplicated place names
This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.
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List of World Heritage in Danger
The List of World Heritage in Danger is compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through the World Heritage Committee according to Article 11.4 of the World Heritage Convention,Full title: Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage which was established in 1972 to designate and manage World Heritage Sites. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and List of World Heritage in Danger are world Heritage Sites in Danger.
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List of World Heritage Sites in Africa
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 147 World Heritage Sites in Africa.
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Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.
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Maasai language
Maasai (previously spelled Masai) or Maa (autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million.
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Maasai Mara
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Maasai Mara are southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets.
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Maasai people
The Maasai (Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region.
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Mary Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans.
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Mbulu
Mbulu is a town in Tanzania and the capital of the Mbulu District.
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Mduma's shrew
Mduma's shrew (Crocidura mdumai) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Mica
Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates.
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Mozambique Belt
The Mozambique Belt is a band in the Earth's crust that extends from East Antarctica through East Africa up to the Arabian-Nubian Shield.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Ngorongoro District, west of Arusha City in Arusha Region, within the Crater Highlands geological area of northeastern Tanzania. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Ngorongoro Conservation Area are 1959 establishments in Tanganyika, Biosphere reserves of Tanzania, calderas of Africa, east African montane forests, geography of Arusha Region, important Bird Areas of Tanzania, protected areas established in 1959, Serengeti volcanic grasslands, southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets, Tourist attractions in the Arusha Region, Volcanoes of Tanzania, world Heritage Sites in Danger and world Heritage Sites in Tanzania.
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Ngorongoro District, Arusha
Ngorongoro District (Wilaya ya Ngorongoro, in Swahili) is one of seven districts in western Arusha Region of Tanzania.
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Nile crocodile
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries.
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Ol Doinyo Lengai
Ol Doinyo Lengai is an active volcano in northern Tanzania. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Ol Doinyo Lengai are geography of Arusha Region.
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Olduvai Gorge
The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evolution.
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
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Oribi
The oribi (Ourebia ourebi) is a small antelope found in eastern, southern and western Africa.
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Oscar Baumann
Oscar Baumann (25 June 1864 in Vienna – 12 October 1899 in Vienna) was an Austrian explorer, cartographer and ethnographer.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paleoanthropology
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural evidence (such as stone tools, artifacts, and settlement localities).
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Panthera leo melanochaita
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa.
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Paranthropus boisei
Paranthropus boisei is a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago.
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Pastoralism
Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
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Prehistory
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
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Protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.
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Quartzite
Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
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Salt lake
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre).
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Schist
Schist is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity.
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Seismology
Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or other planetary bodies.
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Serengeti
The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning the Mara and Arusha Regions of Tanzania. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti are geography of Arusha Region and Serengeti volcanic grasslands.
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Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over. Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park are Biosphere reserves of Tanzania, important Bird Areas of Tanzania, Serengeti volcanic grasslands, southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets and world Heritage Sites in Tanzania.
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Serval
The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a wild cat native to Africa.
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Seven Natural Wonders of Africa
The Seven Natural Wonders of Africa was a competition where the seven were selected by voting on February 11, 2013.
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Shield volcano
A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground.
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Shrew
Shrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla.
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Soda lake
A soda lake or alkaline lake is a lake on the strongly alkaline side of neutrality, typically with a pH value between 9 and 12.
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Southeast African cheetah
The Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) is the nominate cheetah subspecies native to East and Southern Africa.
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Spotted hyena
The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), also known as the laughing hyena, is a hyena species, currently classed as the sole extant member of the genus Crocuta, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Stable fly
Stomoxys calcitrans is commonly called the stable fly, barn fly, biting house fly, dog fly, or power mower fly.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Thomson's gazelle
Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) is one of the best known species of gazelles.
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Topi
Damaliscus lunatus jimela is a subspecies of topi, and is usually just called a topi.
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Trachyandesite
Trachyandesite is an extrusive igneous rock with a composition between trachyte and andesite.
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Transhumance
Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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Ungulate
Ungulates are members of the diverse clade Euungulata ("true ungulates"), which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
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Volcanic ash
Volcanic ash consists of fragments of rock, mineral crystals, and volcanic glass, produced during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.
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Volcanic cone
Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.
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Volcanic group
A volcanic group is a stratigraphic group consisting of volcanic strata.
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Waterbuck
The waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) is a large antelope found widely in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Wildebeest
Wildebeest, also called gnu, are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa.
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World Heritage Committee
The World Heritage Committee is a committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Year
A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit.
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See also
1959 establishments in Tanganyika
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Twiga Cement
Biosphere reserves of Tanzania
- Lake Manyara
- Lake Manyara Biosphere Reserve
- List of Ngorongoro Crater plants
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Serengeti National Park
- Usambara Mountains
Calderas of Africa
- Deriba (caldera)
- Gran Canaria
- Monte Muambe
- Mount Elgon
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Waw an Namus
East African montane forests
- Aberdare National Park
- Aberdare Range
- Cherangani Hills Forest
- Cornus volkensii
- East African montane forests
- Imatong Mountains
- Kapchorwa Central Forest Reserve
- Kidepo Game Reserve
- Kinyeti
- Matthews Range
- Mau Forest
- Mbulu Highlands
- Mount Elgon
- Mount Elgon National Park
- Mount Hanang
- Mount Kenya
- Mount Meru (Tanzania)
- Mount Moroto
- Mount Ng'iro
- Ndoto Mountains
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Nguruman Escarpment
- Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve
Geography of Arusha Region
- Arusha National Park
- Crater Highlands
- Empakaai Crater
- Gelai Volcano
- Kerimasi
- Kitumbeine Volcano
- Lake Duluti
- Lake Eyasi
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Lake Natron
- Mguu wa Zuberi
- Mount Loolmalasin
- Mount Meru (Tanzania)
- Mungu Crater
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Ngurdoto Crater
- Ol Doinyo Lengai
- Olmoti Crater
- Sadiman volcano
- Selian River
- Serengeti
- Tarangire Ecosystem
Important Bird Areas of Tanzania
- Arusha National Park
- Burigi-Chato National Park
- Katavi National Park
- Kigosi National Park
- Kishanda
- Kitulo Plateau
- Lake Eyasi
- Lake Manyara
- Lake Natron
- Lake Rukwa
- Mahale Mountains National Park
- Mikumi National Park
- Minziro Forest Reserve
- Mkomazi National Park
- Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Mount Rungwe
- Mtera Dam
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Nguru Mountains
- Nguu Mountains
- Nyumba ya Mungu Dam
- Ruaha National Park
- Rubeho Mountains
- Rubondo Island National Park
- Rumanyika-Karagwe National Park
- Selous Game Reserve
- Serengeti National Park
- Tarangire National Park
- Udzungwa Mountains
- Udzungwa Mountains National Park
- Ugalla River National Park
- Ukaguru Mountains
- Uluguru Mountains
- Umalila Mountains
- Usambara Mountains
- Usangu Plain
- Yaeda Valley
Serengeti volcanic grasslands
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Serengeti
- Serengeti National Park
- Serengeti volcanic grasslands
Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- Maasai Mara
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Ruaha National Park
- Rubeho Mountains
- Ruma National Park
- Serengeti National Park
- Southern Acacia–Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- Tarangire Ecosystem
- Tarangire National Park
- Ukaguru Mountains
- Usangu Plain
- Yaeda Valley
Tourist attractions in the Arusha Region
- Arusha Cultural Heritage Centre
- Arusha Declaration Monument
- Arusha National Park
- Kati, Arusha
- Lake Manyara National Park
- National Museum of Tanzania
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Volcanoes of Tanzania
- Crater Highlands
- Gelai Volcano
- Igwisi Hills
- Kerimasi
- Kitumbeine Volcano
- Lake Ngozi
- List of Ngorongoro Crater plants
- List of volcanoes in Tanzania
- Mount Hanang
- Mount Kwaraha
- Mount Loolmalasin
- Mount Rungwe
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Ngualla
- Williamson diamond mine
World Heritage Sites in Tanzania
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Kilwa Kisiwani
- Kondoa Rock-Art Sites
- List of Ngorongoro Crater plants
- List of World Heritage Sites in Tanzania
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Selous Game Reserve
- Serengeti National Park
- Songo Mnara
- Stone Town
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngorongoro_Conservation_Area
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