MEETING PLANS TO CONSERVE SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

A regional conservation workshop has been set up with an aim of introducing plans to conserve the Serengeti eco-system in the coming 10 years and will take four days.

The Director for Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), Dr Christof Schenck, said they have been discussing the major plans for the coming 10 years and Serengeti National Park has been our first concern.

The workshop has been attended by 30 senior conservationists from countries like Ethiopia, Germany, DRC and Tanzania. He said Serengeti Park is the most known and beautiful park in the world so there is need to conserve it for the current and future generations.

FZS spends around one million Euros to fund conservation activities in the world’s famous park every year and there are a number of projects that will be applied in the park in the coming few months.

Because of the conservation activities that take place each year, a number of international visitors have visited the park to view the different wildlife.

Serengeti National Park is one of the major tourist destinations in Tanzania that bring in foreign currency that is used for national development but the park still has a number of challenges like the increasing human-wildlife conflicts and poaching