A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Award of Masters of Business Administration in corporation management at Mzumbe University
This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of anti-poaching strategies used by Tanzania by focusing on the Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST) as a case study.Specifically, the study aimed to explores anti-poaching strategies used by Tanzania, to assess the effectiveness of those strategies and to identify the challenges faced by Tanzania in implementing anti-poaching strategies.
Poaching has been a major problem for conservation of wildlife populations in many parts of Africa, Including Selous game reserve in Tanzania. However, the harshness of the poaching problem is often unclear because of a lack of accurate anti poaching strategies being employed by the government in fighting anti-poaching.
By looking towards the declining number of wildlife in recently years, caused by three types of poaching known as subsistence, trophy and commercial poaching. The study uses systematic approach to measure the effort and coverage invested in anti-poaching strategies, and to evaluate the results of anti-poaching patrols, wildlife product seizures and surveillance (including intelligence gathering) in relation to measures of the frequency and distribution of illegal activities by using case study (Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania) designed to see how anti-poaching strategies are being employed in Tanzania
It was seen that effectively prosper of anti-poaching strategies must be driven by funding and quality anti-poaching strategies because the problem of poaching depends much on well-established ongoing strategies , plenty of funds, joint patrol and training to both game rangers and society as well. NGOs and Government are playing a great role in fighting poaching activities but not that much enough to combat poaching activities