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Protecting Mount Kilimanjaro from Recurrent Fire Outbreaks

By SG Editor·
Wildfire in a dry African landscape with smoke and flames.

A wildfire spreads across a dry, grassy area in Africa, with smoke billowing and flames visible on the horizon.

Tanzanian officials have formed a team of experts to investigate the causes of the fire outbreaks, human activities, including setting fire on the mountain, were also to blame. A number of institutions, including the University of Dar es Salaam, the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro region and the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha region, were involved in task team.

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