Published on : 04/06/2022 – 22:45
Dodoma introduced the ban six years ago, in 2016, following seeing ” irregularities », in particular the sale abroad of protected species. But the Tanzanian authorities announced on Friday June 3 a six-month suspension of this ban.
Elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, but also birds and snakes: Tanzania is renowned throughout the world for the richness of its fauna, more than one and a half million visitors flock there each year – outside the Covid period. – to admire them during safaris.
Until 2016, the export of certain live wild animals was a legal trade and a source of revenue for the state. Then this activity was banned because of ” irregularities »: the export of protected species, first of all, in particular certain birds and mammals, but also the illegal export of species authorized for sale, in clear terms, traffic which escapes the State completely. Birds and mammals but also insects, scorpions or lizards.
Now things have changed, says the Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority, which has decided, following assessing animal exports over the past six years, that the ban can be lifted. Traders will have six months, starting tomorrow Monday, “ to export animal stocks » that they might not sell for six years.
A decision limited in time, but which already worries animal rights organizations such as the WWF, which demands “ good quality monitoring procedures so as not to jeopardize the progress made in recent years for the protection of wild animals.