The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
In particular, they estimate that about half the thickness of the Furtwängler glacier was lost between February 2000 and February 2009—a length of about 4.6 meters.
The Nature News article concludes with, "However, the Kilimanjaro glaciers do attract some 25,000 visitors each year, a major revenue source for Tanzania. [Dr. Doug] Hardy [University of Massachusetts, Amherst], who's made 12 trips up the mountain since 2000, says he's noticed the crowds of summiteers growing larger; he thinks the stampede began in response to the global attention the shrinking glaciers received in 2002, when he and Thompson published their first paper on the subject." [See article above]
Due to the influx of tourists to the mountain, Tanzanian Medical Services have been concerned with attempts of tourists to climb the mountain. Significant physical demands are required to accomplish the climb, and many tourists are unaware of these demands and, in fact, think the mountain is easy to climb.
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