Tanzania: Hunting Guidelines in Offing - Kanyasu

[Fred Gunner]

By Katare Mbashiru in Dodoma
THE government has said Serengeti National Park had enough hotels inside the park and that currently the government is encouraging investment outside the national park in order to protect the environment within the facility.

This was revealed by Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Constantine Kanyasu, when responding to Ulanga Lawmaker, Goodluck Mlinga, who demanded to know the government's plans in establishing investment plans for those who want to build hotels outside the national parks.

Mr Mlinga argued that by having hotels outside the national parks, more Tanzanians would benefit by conducting various businesses.

The MP also asked the ministry to put measures in place to allow hunting within the game reserves so that local and international tourists can, apart from watching animals, feel the glimpse of testing meat, in a bid to maintain them so that they keep on visiting Tanzanian national parks and game reserves frequently.

Responding, Mr Kanyasu said the government was currently preparing hunting guidelines that it would make available to tourists.

"We want to ensure that we have enough butchers in our game reserves that will also help our people to improve their economies as they serve our local and international tourists," he said.

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[Fred Gunner]

Tanzania Set to Establish Special Butcheries for Game Meat

The government of Tanzania is planning to establish butcheries specifically for game meat, an official told parliament on Wednesday.
"Under the new plan, business people will be licensed to sell game killed in game reserves in special butcheries," said Constantine Kanyasu, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism.

"The ministry is in the process of creating regulations that will allow local hunters to sell game meat in special butcheries. The regulations will allow people to buy game meat especially in areas adjacent to game reserves," Kanyasu told the House in the capital Dodoma.
He was responding to Goodluck Mlinga, a Member of Parliament for Ulanga constituency, who had appealed to the government to allow business people to sell game meat saying most of the tourists visiting Tanzania wanted to taste game meat.

According to the Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority, citizens hunting for game meat have to be licensed by the relevant authorities and proof of the kill has to be presented afterwards in the form of skin, hooves and other non-edible animal parts.

 

[CAustin]

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