Tanzania stood amongst the top beneficiaries of German partnership in tourism and wildlife conservation on German Unity Day. The German government has been encouraging and supportive of the protection and conservation acts of wildlife in Tanzania’s leading wildlife and tourist parks.

 

 

Ranked as Tanzania’s traditional partner, Germany is supporting wildlife conservation projects and biodiversity in southern Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve and Serengeti National Park in the north.

 

Two of the biggest conserved wildlife parks in Africa, Serengeti ecosystem and the Selous Game Reserve have been receiving constant support from German Government for nature conservation in Tanzania.
 

In June this year, the German embassy in Dar es Salaam handed over two vehicles to Serengeti and Ngorongoro Districts. The vehicles will be used by the district authorities to improve the services provided to village communities under good neighbourliness initiative. These vehicles will be supporting the activities such as controlling of the wild animals, early response to human-wildlife conflicts, patrolling, training sessions related to natural resource management amongst the local people. These two parks are the biggest conserved wildlife sanctuaries in Africa and are also one of the most popular tourist parks in Northern Tanzania.

 

Deployments of the vehicles are part of the German support for biodiversity protection and rural development around the Serengeti National Park. The biodiversity is increasingly under the threat of human settlements. Since 2012, Germany has committed Euro 100 million for biodiversity protection and rural development in Tanzania.

 

Apart from the wildlife parks, what attract the Germans to Tanzania are the old German buildings, cultural heritage sites and Mount Kilimanjaro expeditions.

 

Marking 26 years since the reunification of East and West Germany, the Unity Day was celebrated with great zeal and fervour.