SPECIAL REPORT: Lobby’s anger after US bans Dar trophies

 International tourist organisations have criticised the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for its recent decision to ban the importation by American hunters of sport-hunted trophies from Tanzania and Zimbabwe, saying the move will affect wildlife conservation in these countries.

Nature World News
United States bans elephant trophies from Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Wildlife News
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on Friday announced a ban on the import of elephant trophies from Tanzania and Zimbabwe during the 2014 hunting season. The USFAWS has questioned whether there is sufficient monitoring of the ...
US bans imports of sport-hunted Zim elephant tusksNewsDay
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SPECIAL REPORT: Why anti-poaching campaign ineffective
IPPmedia
In recent years, Tanzania has witnessed a steep rise in poaching and other forms of crime targeting elephants and other wild animal species. The rate of killings is significantly greater than the elephants' capacity to reproduce. This has led many wildlife ...

>For years, the success story of the Nile perch has been told in volumes and verses to the extent that this version of reality overshadows the impact of the fish on Lake Victoria.

>Outbreaks of  viral diseases which are known to spread from animals to humans (known as Zoonotic diseases) can be so economically devastating and life threatening—the reason why future health research priorities should be reviewed to combat Zoonotic infections in Tanzania and Africa in general.

>In an attempt to raise primary school enrolment, the government dropped fees in 2001—and the response was well worth it. By 2009, 95 per cent of children were in school all the way from pre-primary to secondary level.

>Women in Zanzibar are leading in the growing number of those filing for divorce (talak), it has emerged.

Four nabbed in Dar over government trophies
Daily News
EASTERN zone anti-poaching rangers, in collaboration with the police, have apprehended four people for illegal possession of government trophies valued at over 90m/- at Kariakoo and Mwenge in Dar es Salaam. Three of the suspects, Mr Morice Vicent ...

Himalayan Times
Financial Times Publishes Special Report On SDGs
Kaiser Family Foundation
The Financial Times features several articles in a special report on the Sustainable Development Goals. Financial Times: Experts divided over value of U.N. Sustainable Development Goals “…[E]xperts remain divided on the value of the MDGs in the past ...
Ensuring That Migrants Can Migrate SafelyHuffington Post
Unsustainable Development GoalsProject Syndicate
Experts divided over value of UN sustainable...