Breaking News: Sokoke Pipit spotted at Pugu
Not easy to understand that with the present status of the Pugu Forest still globally endangered species are found like the recent spotting of the Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis)
Few remaining Rondo Dwarf Galago
The secretive and almost extinct Rondo Dwarf Galago is still a regular visitor of the Pugu Hills Nature Centre. At night from your bed in the banda you may hear it calling.
Children without Nature
The publishing of an article about the worrying absence of Nature in the life of upgrowing children in the UK is not only a warning relevant in Europe
Pugu Hills Closed
We are sorry to inform our customers that Pugu Hills Nature Centre will be closed during the rainy season for maintenance.
Pugu Plastic Forest Reserve
A Trash Art Work in the making at Pugu Hills Nature Centre symbolising the struggle of Humans against Nature! Will humans manage to win and bury nature in its trash?Trash from Pugu Forest
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Trash from the Primeval Pugu Forest to become Trash Art Work at Centre
The video of the "Majestic Plastic Bag" (click here) shows that not only physical destruction (like charcoal production) is threatening our Nature but also our waste is suffocating and obstructing natural processes and space with adverse effects on our environment.
The Pugu Hills Nature Centre could even become responsible through the promotion of hiking in the remaining patches of primeval forest at Pugu for intensified littering of plastics and trash, which is presently only practised by the illegal charcoal burners.
We are convinced that by promoting hiking the whole purpose of this unique forest will be changed from illegal mining of natural resources to a green zone for recreational and non-invasive use and recovery of the forest. To make a difference from present practices all our guest need to respect the rules valid for any Nature Reserve which are summarised by the slogan "To Leave it Like You Found It (or even improve by REMOVING TRASH)", which addition solicits your assistance to restore the original primeval forest by removing plastic and other trash which do not belong to Nature.
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We have therefore introduced the collection of trash from the Pugu Forest as a routine for the hikes. The guide will carry a bag for collection of plastics which are found on the way. Most dominant are PVC water bottles and polyethylene plastic bags left by the charcoal burners. In case you bring any consumables into the forest please let the guide help you with taken the remains Out Of the Forest Again!. Even better you can help him picking up whatever trash you see on the way which does not belong to and in Nature. |
The collected plastics and the like are kept at the Centre and will be transformed into a Trash Artwork, to set an example to be followed by all our staff, visitors, government workers and perhaps at some stage even the Pugu Village itself, to reverse the presently ongoing uncontrolled littering in Dar es Salaam with plastics and make Pugu to an example community of cleanliness and responsible waste disposal.
We invite everybody to propose a design for the Art Work while the Pugu Hills central committee is still not decided. (the winning contribution will obviously receive some sort of price for which selection we may also need to organise a competition)
