The new Wildlife Conservation Bill (Photo credit H.Fredrick)

The new Wildlife Conservation Bill is to be tabled in Parliament in the up-coming session beginning 28th October 2008 for the first of two readings. To download the Bill, please click here.

TNRF is finalising a comprehensive set of eight Wildlife Briefs on the wildife sector that have been developed through wide consultation within civil society and the private sector, including providing the Wildlife Division the opportunity to comment on an initial draft.

UCRT - Winner of the Equator Prize 2008!

Ujamaa Community Resource Trust has received the prestigious Equator Prize for its groundbreaking support for community-based natural resource management and rights in Tanzania. As one of 25 such organisations from around the world, the prize will be awarded at the World Conservation Forum in Barcelona, Spain in October 2008. UCRT was selected out of a list of hundreds of grassroots organizations working on sustainable development. Ujamaa Community Resource Trust works with communities in Ngorongoro, Arusha, Mbulu, Simanjiro and Hanang Districts.

Getting wildlife management right for development and conservation

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has today provided tourism companies with an amended schedule to the Wildlife Conservation Act Non-Consumptive Wildlife Use Regulations GN 196 of September 2007. The Schedule is retroactive from 1st July 2008. 

The amended schedule is currently at the Government Printers, and will be probably available later this month as an officially printed version. However, the version of this schedule as provided to tourism companies by the Ministry can be downloaded here.