Combating Wildlife Poaching and Illegal Trafficking in Tanzania

By Virginia Blaser
I would like to take the opportunity of  this year’s World Wildlife Day to highlight the American people’s commitment to combatting the global scourge of wildlife trafficking and to draw attention to how and where the American and Tanzanian peoples and governments can work together to save the world’s precious wildlife.  
I know that everyday Tanzanians share these goals, and I note that President Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere once said that "…the survival of our wildlife...

Ruaha National Park, Tanzania – Friday, December 12, 2014, The Honorable Lazaro Nyalandu, Tanzania Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, and Mark B. Childress, United States Ambassador to Tanzania, visited Ruaha National Park yesterday to mark the launch of the Southern Highlands and Ruaha-Katavi Protection Program (SHARPP). This new $8.2 million five-year program is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and will be implemented by the Wildlife Conservation...

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 Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hon Bernard Membe, Minister Lazaro Nyalandu and Minister for Africa (UK), Mark Simmonds held a joint press conference at Hyatt-Regency Hotel yesterday evening 09th July, 2014. Pictured above is Hon Lazaro Nyalandu, Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism gives his remarks during the joint press conference  Minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds listens to Michael Dalali, Projects Officer at the British High Commission. Looking on are...

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