2.1 Introduction: Regulating the Hunting Industry in Tanzania

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REGULATING THE HUNTING INDUSTRY IN TANZANIA

Reflections on the Legislative, Institutional and Policy-Making Frameworks

Introduction

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

I. The Development of the Hunting Industry in Tanzania: A Historical Perspective

	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Hunting in the Pre-Colonial Era
	1.3 The Hunting Industry in the Colonial Period
	1.4. The Status of the Hunting Industry in the Post-Colonial Era

II. Implementation of International Legal Instruments Relating to Hunting

	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 The African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1968
	2.3 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, 1973
	2.4 The Southern African Development Community Protocol on Wildlife Conservation and Law Enforcement, 1999

III. A Review of Legislation and Policy Regulating the Hunting Industry

	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Policy
	3.3 Legislation

IV. Salient Features and Constraints in the Legal, Policy-Making and Institutional Frameworks

	4.1 Potentiality for Arbitrary Use and Abuse of Power
	4.2 Professionalism and the Hunting Industry
	4.3 Voices from the Local People

V. Conclusion and Recommendations

Bibliography

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II. IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL INSTRUMENTS RELATING TO HUNTING

2.1 Introduction

Tanzania is a party to a number of international and regional legal instruments relating to the sustainable use of wildlife resources and the conservation and management of wild animals. It is a party to the Agreement on the Action Plan for the Environmentally Sound Management of the Common Zambezi River System and the Protocol Concerning Protected Areas and Wildlife Forming the Eastern Africa Region (Nairobi 1985). The government has also ratified the Lusaka Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement Operation Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora (Lusaka, 1994) and the SADC Protocol on Wildlife Conservation and Law Enforcement (Maputo, 1999). Other instruments that the government is a signatory to are the Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio-de Janeiro, 1992), the Southern Africa Convention for Wildlife Management (1990) and the Master Plan for the Security of Rhino and Elephant in Southern Africa, (1996).

Most of these instruments contain provisions that require Contracting Parties to take all necessary measures to ensure that the hunting industry in their jurisdictions is adequately regulated and controlled to enable sustainable utilization of wild game. We cannot undertake the task of reviewing the provisions of all these instruments here. An in depth examination of the hunting-related provisions of some of them should suffice to illustrate the extent to which the Tanzania's government has complied with standards and norms regulating the hunting industry at the international and regional arena.

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