Tanzania National Parks has announced a range of new increased tariffs which are due to come into effect in July this year for the period up to June 2015.
Tanzania National Parks has announced a range of new increased tariffs which are due to come into effect in July this year for the period up to June 2015. The new tariffs cover not only park entrance fees for foreign nonresident visitors, resident visitors, East Africans, and Tanzanians, but a range of other services like professional filming fees and aircraft landing charges among many others.
Notably tariffs for Tanzanian citizens have gone up sixfold, not exactly a recipe to encourage more domestic tourism to the national parks which in neighboring countries has become a major income stream for the lodges and safari camps, encouraged by favorable fee structures for citizen visitors.
Marking World Environment Day on June 5, AWF shares results of the COVID-19 Emergency Response to support rangers, conservation programs, and communities during the pandemic.
Food shortage fears as jumbos ravage farms
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Food shortage fears as jumbos ravage farms
STRAY elephants have destroyed more than 400 acres of crops in five villages of Igava ward in Mbarali District, Mbeya Region posing food security threats.
The over 100 elephants traversed the area from Ruaha National Park,destroying maize, rice and sweet potatoes farms, putting villagers on acute food shortage track.
Ward executive officer Gaitan Madindo said other than destroying farms, the elephants caused no harm to the villagers and their dwellings.
Officials of the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) visited the area to assess the damage from the jumbos and turning them back to the park, he said.
Minister wants Mikumi to uplift rhino numbers
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Minister wants Mikumi to uplift rhino numbers
The management of the Mikumi National Park management needs to strengthen efforts and work hard to restore rhino levels following extensive poaching and threat of disappearance of the species starting from the 1980s.
Dr Damas Ndumbaro.
Dr Damas Ndumbaro, the minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, issued the directive here yesterday at a meeting with the park management to chart out how to improve tourism and fight poaching.
He reminded the management that the park had a large number of rhinos but they were decimated due to rampant poaching.
US Ambassador has close encounter with rhino at Mkomazi National Park
February 25, 2021
The US Ambassador to Tanzania had a once-in-a-lifetime experience – for now anyway – when he visited Mkomazi National Park in Northern Tanzania. There he came face-to-face with a rare black rhino, the closest he’s ever been so close to any rhino.
The few remaining black rhinos are living protected at Mkomazi Park, famous for rhino conservation in East Africa.
The Tanzania National Parks authority has created viewing points in the park to allow tourists to view the rhinos at a very close range.
The park had once remained remote and inaccessible since its establishment in 1951, but is now pulling in tourists to its setting in the Pare and Usambara Eastern Arc Mountains.