THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’S COMMITMENT TO COMBATING WILDLIFE 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...

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