Tanzania steps up efforts to tackle wildlife smuggling
An elephant in Mikumi National Park, which borders the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania on October 14, 2013. Tanzania has previously been called the epicentre of Africa’s elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed a 60 per cent decline in its elephant population between 2009 and 2014. PHOTO | AFP
Authorities in charge of Tanzania’s main seaports will prioritise specific actions such as improving risk profiling systems as part of new efforts to tackle smuggling wildlife out of the country.
A meeting last week in the main port city of Dar es Salaam also resolved to adopt fresh strategies for better inter-agency and public-private sector collaboration, stronger investigative capacity and smoother information exchange to support the cause.
