The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck,
arrived in Tanzania Monday evening for a five-day official tour which
will take him to northern Tanzania’s famous Serengeti National Park.
Accompanied by his wife, Daniela Schadt, the German President is set
to visit some tourist attractions in Tanzania, including the Azania
Front Church, a Lutheran congregation house that was built in 1898 by
early German missionaries in East Africa.
He is also being accompanied by a high-ranking business delegation
including tourist business stakeholders, among others, in the gas,
trade, manufacturing, and transport sectors.
The German President will also visit the historical Stone Town site
in the Indian Ocean tourist island of Zanzibar and meet German
volunteers and religious leaders in this Muslim-dominated part of
Tanzania.
President Gauck was scheduled as well to visit wildlife conservation
projects in northern Tanzania’s famous Serengeti National Park, the
oldest wildlife protected area in Tanzania established in 1921 and later
developed into a full national park through technical and financial
support from the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
While in the Serengeti, the German President will hand over the
Operations Command Center for anti-poaching measures established by the
Frankfurt Zoological Society (Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft) in the
Seronera area inside the Serengeti National Park.
Zebra plane and the presidential plane. — at Seronera, Serengeti
German President Joachim Gauck arrived at Seronera airstrip in Serengeti National Park
Welcome to the world's famous park, a World Heritage and Biosphere Reserve..
Seronera airstrip is one of the busiest airstrip in Tanzania
Part of the FZS team with the German President Joachim Gauck and First Lady Daniela Schadt. — at Seronera, Serengeti.
Christof Schenck handing over the symbolic key for the Operations room to TANAPA. — at Seronera, Serengeti.
At the Serengeti Visitor Centre where a lot of information about park management activities described a lot — at Seronera, Serengeti.
Tanzania is not only blessed with wonderful natural attractions but also the country is blessed with very beautiful and amazing culture....here German President enjoy Tanzania cultural dances prepared for him at Serengeti National Park.
The German government has been a leading partner with Tanzania in
wildlife conservation and has been working to enhance efforts to save
elephants through the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
The German government is currently supporting improvements of roads,
airstrips, and housing for game rangers within the Selous Game Reserve
in Southern Tanzania. The German anti-poaching and wildlife conservation
program in Tanzania is worth US$51 million, running from 2012 to 2016,
including US$21 million for the Selous Game Reserve.
To combat the very serious threat of poaching in the Selous Game
Reserve, the governments of the United States and Germany late in
January of this year, transferred a significant amount of field
equipment for use by Tanzanian game wardens patroling the reserve.
The equipment included small and large tents, torches, maps,
binoculars, cameras, uniforms, and boots. The German government extended
its support toward improvements of roads, airstrips, and housing for
game rangers within the game reserve, while the US government has
supplied the expertise of US marine instructors to train game wardens on
patroling techniques and vehicle maintenance.
US Ambassador Mark Childress and German Ambassador Egon Kochanke
emphasized the importance of coordination of anti-poaching efforts among
international partners, between the public and private sectors, and
within the government of Tanzania.
US equipment and services are part of a larger Tanzania-wide,
anti-poaching and wildlife conservation program worth US$40 million over
the next 4 years, while the German anti-poaching and wildlife
conservation program in Tanzania is worth US$51 million running from
2012 to 2016.
Ambassador Childress said: “This is a big day, but no one day can
turn the tide in the battle against poaching. We need a lot of days like
this.”
In addition, Ambassador Childress praised the Paul Allen Foundation
for funding a new Very High Frequency (VHF) system that will allow game
scouts to communicate across secure channels and coordinate their
anti-poaching efforts.
He also commended the Hans Jorg Wyss Foundation for its ongoing
support of the Frankfurt Zoological Society’s efforts in the Selous.
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