Dar es Salaam and
Arusha — The government on Wednesday ordered a US firm out of a disputed
tourism hunting block in Arusha in a bid to end a long-running standoff
with another foreign company over hunting rights.
The order was
served against Wengert Windrose Safaris (WWS) Tanzania Limited which has
been embroiled in a bitter dispute with an United Arab Emirates
company, Green Miles Safaris over allotted hunting rights in the
animal-rich corridor around Lake Natron, Longido District.
Both the US and the
UEA companies have waged local and international campaigns against each
other as they tried to take control of the multi-billion shillings
trophy hunting business.
Wednesday's
announcement by the government is the latest in a string of efforts to
resolve the row that begun in 2011 when a fresh round of allocation of
the hunting blocks was done.
The WWS is
registered in Tanzania as a charitable fund running tourism hunting and
conservation projects. It is part of Texas registered Friedkin
Conservation Fund (FCF) owned by a wealth US family, which also operates
another local company known as Tanzania Game Trackers Safaris.
Green Mile Safari
official Gharib Ali said it has already been officially notified to
resume tourist hunting in the area after it was stopped in 2014 over
alleged violations on animal rights and hunting procedures. The firm is
partly owned by Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohammed Bin Butti al-Hamed, a member
of the United Arab Emirates royal family.
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