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  • Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, September 29, 2003: Wildlife graze near the Ngorongoro Crater where tourists pay extraordinary prices  to view them in luxury. Meanwhile, the Masai have been driven out of the Crater since 1972 and are not the ones profiting from the revenue brought by tourism. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Margaret teaches class 3 at the Endulen Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 29, 2003. She is the only Masai teacher in the school. The Masai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 and struggle to hang onto the lands they live on now because of increasing pressure from conservationists. (Ami Vitale)
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  • The signs of changing times are evident as Maasai children relax with a game of football as their elders walk by cloaked in traditional clothing during lunch break at the Endulen Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 29, 2003.  Most Maasai now see the value of sending their children to school so they can have a voice in the government to protect themselves with increasing land loss. The Maasai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 in the name of conservation and are being threatened again  under a torrent of new legislation. Like other indigenous people the world over, they continue to be evicted from their land in the name of tourism and conservation. They have lived on these lands for centuries but now struggle to survive on their borders, especially in the difficult drought years. Though they were able to live in harmony with the wildlife for centuries, the places with rich water sources are now preserved for tourists.  Eco-tourism, the government solution to chronic poverty, brings in vast revenues but sadly, the dispossessed Maasai are not allowed to benefit. Only a handful, mostly foreign owned tourist operators profit and only a tiny portion of the money actually filters through to the local economy.
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  • Maasai pastoralists collect water at one of the few sources in Endulen, outside of the pristine Ngornogoro Crater in Tanzania, October 4, 2003.  The Maasai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 in the name of conservation and are being threatened again with further land loss under a torrent of new legislation. Like other indigenous people the world over, they continue to be evicted from their land in the name of tourism and conservation. They have lived on these lands for centuries but now struggle to survive on their borders, especially in the difficult drought years. Though they were able to live in harmony with the wildlife for centuries, the places with rich water sources are now preserved for tourists.  Eco-tourism, the government solution to chronic poverty, brings in vast revenues but sadly, the dispossessed Maasai are not allowed to benefit. Only a handful, mostly foreign owned tourist operators profit and only a tiny portion of the money actually filters through to the local economy.
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  • Abdilahi Musa Manga, 54, poses in the brush near Hingawali village outside Lindi, Tanzania April 28, 2006. Manga killed a female lion and also shot and injured another male lion during an outbreak of man eating. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Abdilahi Musa Manga, 54, poses in the brush near Hingawali village outside Lindi, Tanzania April 28, 2006. Manga killed a female lion and also shot and injured another male lion during an outbreak of man eating. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, September 29, 2003: Wildlife graze near the Ngorongoro Crater where tourists pay extraordinary prices  to view them in luxury. Meanwhile, the Masai have been driven out of the Crater since 1972 and are not the ones profiting from the revenue brought by tourism. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, September 29, 2003: Wildlife graze near the Ngorongoro Crater where tourists pay extraordinary prices  to view them in luxury. Meanwhile, the Masai have been driven out of the Crater since 1972 and are not the ones profiting from the revenue brought by tourism. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, September 29, 2003: Wildlife graze near the Ngorongoro Crater where tourists pay extraordinary prices  to view them in luxury. Meanwhile, the Masai have been driven out of the Crater since 1972 and are not the ones profiting from the revenue brought by tourism. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, September 29, 2003: Wildlife graze near the Ngorongoro Crater where tourists pay extraordinary prices  to view them in luxury. Meanwhile, the Masai have been driven out of the Crater since 1972 and are not the ones profiting from the revenue brought by tourism. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 2, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 02, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Children study at Waleza Primary school  October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga District, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shinyanga, Tanzania, October 4, 2003: Girls who have just finished exams for 7th Standard, Eunice Sospeter, left and her friend Helena Simon sit in a window October 04, 2003 in Shinyanga, Tanzania. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An early morning scene in the village of Navanga, Tanzania where man eatign lions have terrorized the villagers. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson begins to set up traps near the village of Simana, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson prepares to check the traps at sunrise near the villae of Mnolela, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson prepares to check the traps at sunrise near the villae of Mnolela, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Chimps at Mahale National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Mahale National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • TNC employee Rosita Scarborough watches as chimps go by at Mahale National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Girls gather water in the village of Nkonkwa, on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 25, 2011. Ami Vitale
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  • Chimps at Gombe National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Gombe National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Gombe National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Namaga, Kenya, September 29, 2003: A road is  widened near the Ngornogoro Crater in Tanzania September 29, 20003 presumably to bring in more tourists. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Masai study in  an adult literacy training program funded by Oxfam GB at the Endulen Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 29, 2003.  The Masai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 and struggle to hang onto the lands they live on now because of increasing pressure from conservationists. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children pretend they are lions waiting to eat a villager in the village of Simana, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson, also known as "Bwana Simba" or "Mr. Lion"drags a goat through the bush to attract lions  to his scent for his traps near Simana, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • The village leader of Navunga watches as Dairen Simpson lays a trap near Baghdad, the place of Osama in Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson talks to villagers about lions that were walking around the village the night before in the villages of Navanga and Simana in Tanzania. He must carry a gun while he checks traps he has layed for the lions but most villagers have never seen a gun even though they are quite vulnerable ot the frequent lion attacks. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson begins to set up traps near the village of Simana, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson examines a lion print outside a hut in the village of Navanga, Tanzania. The dense forest and tall grasses make villagers vulnerable to lion attacks. They have to stay late in the evening in their fields to protect their crops from rampaging monkeys who like to eat the rice and corn, forcing them to walk at sunset, the time of day when lions are out looking for prey.  Ami Vitale
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  • Lion researcher Dennis Ikanda talks to villagers in a village near Simana,  outside of Lindi, Tanzania.
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  • Dairen Simpson is blessed by a local bush doctor as villagers look on in Simana, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Somoe Mohamed, left, the mother of Hassan Dadi, who lost his arm after a lion ripped it off, gathers water at sunset in the village of Usuru, Tanzania. Sunrise and sunset are very dangerous times for the women to be outside because of the lion attacks. Ami Vitale
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  • Hassan Dadi, who lost his arm after a lion ripped it off plays with his friends near a swimming hole inthe village of Usuru, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Hassan Dadi, who lost his arm after a lion ripped it off plays with his friends near a swimming hole inthe village of Usuru, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Hassan Dadi, 10,  who lost his arm after a lion ripped it off goes fishing with his friends near a swimming hole in the village of Usuru, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Mwanahamisi Hatibu works in her rice field near sunset in the village of Usuru near Lindi, Tanzania. The dense forest and tall grasses make villagers vulnerable to lion attacks. They have to stay late in the evening in their fields to protect their crops from rampaging monkeys who like to eat the rice and corn, forcing them to walk at sunset, the time of day when lions are out looking for prey.  Ami Vitale
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  • Chimps at Mahale National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Mahale National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Mahale National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Villagers wait for fishermen to bring back their catch to sell to the local market in the village of Katumbi on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Villagers wait for fishermen to bring back their catch to sell to the local market in the village of Katumbi on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Villagers wait for fishermen to bring back their catch to sell to the local market in the village of Katumbi on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Swema Kabliya walks to get water in the  village of Nkonkwa, on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.
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  • Swema Kabliya walks to get water in the  village of Nkonkwa, on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.
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  • Children help their neighbors make palm oil by grinding the nuts in a handmade mill in the village of Katumbi, Tanzania on Lake Tanganyika, August 26, 2011.  Agriculture run off  from processes like producing palm oil is one of the main causes of sediment buildup along the shore of the lake. (Barvani, 20 years in white hat, Chausiku, 15 years,  and their mother Zainabu in orange head covering.) (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Fodensia Ezeliel, 8, poses as she gets ready to go to school. She is the daughter of Ezekiel Kaboya, 40 who was a fisherman but had to stop because he was not able to make a living. Instead, he now cuts trees and sells the wood in the village of Nkonkwa, on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.
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  • Local village fisherman work to catch enough fish to make a living to sell to the local market in the village of Katumbi on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Local village fisherman work to catch enough fish to make a living to sell to the local market in the village of Katumbi on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Gombe National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Gombe National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Namaga, Kenya, September 29, 2003: A road is  widened near the Ngornogoro Crater in Tanzania September 29, 20003 presumably to bring in more tourists. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Margaret teaches class 3 at the Endulen Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 29, 2003. She is the only Masai teacher in the school. The Masai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 and struggle to hang onto the lands they live on now because of increasing pressure from conservationists. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children wait in line to be fed lunch at the Endolin Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 29, 2003. The Masai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 and struggle to hang onto the lands they live on now because of increasing pressure from conservationists. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Pastoral community of Masai in Ngorogoro in Tanzania September 29, 2003 (Ami Vitale)
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  • Pastoral community of Masai who are under threat of losing their lands because of the tourism industry in Ngorogoro in Tanzania September 30, 2003 (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children  study at the Endulen Primary school in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 30, 2003.  The Masai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 and struggle to hang onto the lands they live on now because of increasing pressure from conservationists. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Pastoral community of Masai who are under threat of losing their lands because of the tourism industry in Ngorogoro in Tanzania September 30, 2003 (Ami Vitale)
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  • Pastoral community of Masai who are under threat of losing their lands because of the tourism industry in Ngorogoro in Tanzania September 30, 2003 (Ami Vitale)
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  • Masai collect water  in Ngornogoro District in Tanzania September 30, 2003.  The Masai were thrown out of the Crater in 1972 and struggle to hang onto the lands they live on now because of increasing pressure from conservationists. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Tanzanian villager watches as lion researchers examine lion prints near the village of Navanga, Tanzania. The dense forest and tall grasses make villagers vulnerable to lion attacks. They have to stay late in the evening in their fields to protect their crops from rampaging monkeys who like to eat the rice and corn, forcing them to walk at sunset, the time of day when lions are out looking fo prey.  Ami Vitale
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  • Abdilahi Musa Manga, 54, poses in the brush near Hingawali village outside Lindi, Tanzania April 28, 2006. Manga killed a female lion and also shot and injured another male lion during an outbreak of man eating. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Hassan Dadi, who lost his arm after a lion ripped it off plays with his friends near a swimming hole inthe village of Usuru, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • The children of Cosmos Mbawala, 55, Jumada, 5, left, and Salama, 3, sit outside their hut as their father talks about the attack of their brother Cosmos Chakoma, 12, who was killed by a lion in the village of Hingawali, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Cosmos Mbawala stands with his wife Halima Salumu inside their hut where they stood when they heard the screams of their son, Cosmos Chakoma, 12, after he was killed by a lion in Hingawali village near Lindi, Tanzania. Cosmos, 12,  had just gone to see a lion that was killed in a nearby village that villagers had thought was responsible for killing others earlier in the month when he was attacked by this lion.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Wildlife ranger Msese plays with children near Navanga village, Tanzania.
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  • Quss M. Bani holds his niece Fatima Musa, 7, in their village of Mnolela, Tanzania. Fatima saw her mother Somoe Linyambe, 40, get killed and eaten by a lion when she was 5 years old in the village of Nachunyu and told her uncle that a cow had taken her because she had no idea what a lion was.
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania holds a lions claw and tree roots that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale).
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania holds a lions claw and tree roots that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale).
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  • A stray dog that was road kill is used as bait to catch lions in the village of Simana, Tanzania. (ami Vitale)
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  • Dairen Simpson checks his shotgun that he must use ofr protection when he checks the traps inside his room in Lindi, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Villagers watch as lion researcher Dennis Ikanda and trapper Dairen Simpson look for lion prints in Navanga, Tanzania. The dense forest and tall grasses make villagers vulnerable to lion attacks. They have to stay late in the evening in their fields to protect their crops from rampaging monkeys who like to eat the rice and corn, forcing them to walk at sunset, the time of day when lions are out looking for prey.  Ami Vitale
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  • Hassan Dadi, who lost his arm after a lion ripped it off plays with his friends near a swimming hole inthe village of Usuru, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson, also known as "Bwana Simba" or "Mr.  Lion" prepares to go into the field to set up traps to catch lions from the town of Linde, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson examines a lion print outside a hut in the village of Navanga, Tanzania. The dense forest and tall grasses make villagers vulnerable to lion attacks. They have to stay late in the evening in their fields to protect their crops from rampaging monkeys who like to eat the rice and corn, forcing them to walk at sunset, the time of day when lions are out looking for prey.  Ami Vitale
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  • Cosmos Mbawala stands with his wife Halima Salumu inside their hut where they stood when they heard the screams of their son, Cosmos Chakoma, 12, after he was killed by a lion in Hingawali village near Lindi, Tanzania. Cosmos, 12,  had just gone to see a lion that was killed in a nearby village that villagers had thought was responsible for killing others earlier in the month when he was attacked by this lion.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Dairen Simpson, also known as "Bwana Simba" or "Mr Lion" prepares to go into the field to set up traps to catch lions from the town of Linde, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Cosmos Mbawala stands with his wife Halima inside their hut where they stood when they heard the screams of their son, Cosmos Chakoma, 12, after he was killed by a lion in Hingawali village near Lindi, Tanzania. Cosmos, 12,  had just gone to see a lion that was killed in a nearby village that villagers had thought was responsible for killing others earlier in the month when he was attacked by this lion.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Villagers watch as lion researcher Dennis Ikanda and trapper Dairen Simpson look for lion prints in Navanga, Tanzania. The dense forest and tall grasses make villagers vulnerable to lion attacks. They have to stay late in the evening in their fields to protect their crops from rampaging monkeys who like to eat the rice and corn, forcing them to walk at sunset, the time of day when lions are out looking for prey.  Ami Vitale
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  • Dairen Simpson, also known as "Bwana Simba" or "Mr. Lion" looks for lion prints in the village of Navanga, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • A lion print outside a home in the village of Navanga, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Bontang trees are shown in the village of Usuru, Tanzania near sunset. Legend says that God got angry because they were always walking around and so he turned them upside down so their roots would be facing the sky and they would not be able to roam.
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  • Dairen Simpson, also known as "Bwana Simba" or "Mr. Lion" prepares  to set up traps to catch lions in a village near Nangali, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • Lion researcher Dennis Ikanda talks to trapper Dairen Simpson in a village near Simana,  outside of Lindi, Tanzania.
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  • Chimps at Mahale National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Gombe National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Chimps at Gombe National Park on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania August 27, 2011. (Photo by Ami vitale)
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania holds a gourd with lion's hair that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania prepares a mix using maize flour and tree roots next to a kibuyu vessel that holds lion's hair that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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