LEAT Activities
The Lawyers' Environmental Action Team is the first public interest environmental law organization in Tanzania. It was established in 1994 and formally registered in 1995 under the Societies Ordinance. Its mission is to ensure sound natural resource management and environmental protection in Tanzania.
LEAT carries out policy research, advocacy, and selected public interest litigation. Its membership largely includes lawyers concerned with environmental management and democratic governance in Tanzania.
A Law Student's Educational Sojourn in Africa
In the spring of 2001 Peter Kim, a thrid-year law student at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, USA, spent a five month externship with LEAT in Dar es Salaam. Upon returning to the U.S. Peter wrote fondly about his Tanzanian experience and his high regard for the public interest advocates he worked with.
Biodiversity Programmes
The project 'Conservation and Development Opportunities from the Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity in the Communal Lands of Southern Africa' (CODEOSUB) is focused on promoting successes in Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) projects within southern Africa through building the capacity of communities and NGOs who are involved. LEAT has been in the forefront in promoting Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) in Tanzania.
Bulyanhulu Gold Mine
LEAT represents a group of small-scale miners that were forcibly evicted from their mines in 1996 to make way for development by the Kahama Mining Corporation, Ltd., a subsidiary of a Canadian company. LEAT has called on the Tanzanian government to allow an independent international investigation of alleged human rights abuses during the eviction.
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