EX POACHERS IN RWANDA BECOME PARK RANGERS

More than 550 former poachers in Rwanda have contributed a lot after reforming. They have been put in to 19 cooperatives under one association Amizero in the 12 regions surrounding the Volcanoes National Park to do tourism conservation activities, protect the mountain gorillas, practice agriculture,artcrafts,guard the park, build the park’s fence and participate in informing […]

FOREIGN TOURISTS TO PAY MORE FOR PARK ENTRY

Kenya Wildlife Authority has raised park entry fee for foreign non resident tourists by 33% from $60 to $80 therefore increasing for the second time. The conservation fees  has an aim of encouraging visitation during the low season in most visited parks and to reduce congestion during the peak seasons to preserve  the environmental  integrity […]

TANZANIA TO BECOME A DESTINATION FOR INDIAN TOURISTS

Indian tourists will increase this year because of a Mumbai company identified as Akqua Tourism Destinations Private Limited that will promote Tanzania’s tourism industry in India. The director of the company in India Jilesh Babla has been discussing with the two famous Indian film houses that will carry out video shooting in Tanzania’s tourist attractions […]

MORE GSU SQUAD SENT TO PROTECT TOURISTS AT MARA

Security has been increased at Masai Mara Game Reserve to protect tourists against the residents that have been protesting because of the introduction of an electronic system to improve on revenue collection. Joseph Nkadado the chairman of Narok County Council said the police officers will maintain peace in the area until the disagreement of the […]

WWF PLANS TO BE AFFECTED BY MMP’S PROJECT

The plan for starting a baseline survey in Rufiji delta by World Wildlife Fund for Nature that will help residents to get paid  through REDD  has been affected because they have been refused by Mangrove Management Project officials to burn down  the farm huts and cutting down the coconut trees. United Nations compensates communities for […]

UGANDA EXPECTED TO BE WORLD’S TOP DESTINATION

Bwindi National Park has been voted Africa’s number one birding site over South Africa’s well-known Kruger National Park and Cape Town’s ocean shores early this year by the African Bird club.Murchision Falls National Park carried the ninth place among the top 10 birding sites in the continent. In October 2011 Virunga volcanoes took the number […]