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.
Comments received over the past few days were less than favorable towards TANAPA, the Tanzania National Parks Authority.
Comments received over the past few days were less than favorable towards TANAPA, the Tanzania National Parks Authority.
TANAPA implemented their threatened repeat entrance fee directive, effective April 1. What initially looked like an April Fools’ Day joke, turned out to be the bitter truth, and the most affected will be local communities around national parks. They have in the past benefited from tourists leaving the park for a few hours to see local homesteads, visit cottage industries, and left vital tourist dollars where the money does the most good – at the grassroots levels. Such visits are now likely to dry up as the prospect of having to pay a second entrance fee will deter most tourists, and the safari operators, too, from continuing with such value-added trips.
Photo taken on May 9, 2021 shows the Establishment of the Poseidoniasts at night on the island of Delos, Greece. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos) The arrival of the first charter flights from central Europe on Friday coincided with the easing of restrictions against the novel coronavirus. Greece aspires to build on last year's unexpected success of securing more than 6 million tourist arrivals and over 4 billion euros (4.84 billion U.S. dollars) in.
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