Responding to Tanzanian tour operators over the introduction of cable car expeditions on Mount Kilimanjaro, the government of Tanzania is now ready to meet tourist stakeholders to resolve the matter. - Tanzania Breaking News - Travel News | eTurboNews | eTN
Over 9,360 snares have been removed and dispatched from Tanzania’s flagship national park of Serengeti to Arusha, thanks to a unique anti-poaching program.
The de-snaring program’s key objective is to fight against the rampant snares set by local bush meat mongers to catch massive wildlife within the Serengeti national park.
Tourism investors, led by the Chairman of the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators (TATO), Willy Chambulo, along with the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA), and other stakeholders, are pioneering the de-snaring program in Serengeti to suppress the new fatal poaching method.
Funded by tourism investors in Serengeti as part of their contribution in a conservation drive, the de-snaring program has transformed the conservation landscape within the leading park and become a role model.
Hunters in Tanzania are at loggerheads with tour operators over the latter’s intensified plea to the government to ban trophy hunting in the height of escalating poaching.
Hunters in Tanzania are at loggerheads with tour operators over the latter’s intensified plea to the government to ban trophy hunting in the height of escalating poaching.
Trophy hunting is currently a legal trade and the outgoing director of wildlife division; Prof. Alexander Songorwa says the industry raked in nearly $75 million from 2008 to 2011.
Latest data are not yet out, but official sources say the industry estimated to have brought home over $50 million in 2013, up from $20 million the year before.
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