Simba ndie mnyama namba moja kuangaliwa na wageni
katika mbuga zetu. Idadi ya simba katika bara la Afrika imepungua sana
na katika nchi nyingine wameisha kabisa kutokana na kuwindwa na wenyeji
kama wafugaji, kuharibika kwa mazingira yao halisi ya kuishi kutokana na
kuongezeka kwa idadi ya watu pamoja na uwindaji wa kitalii (trophy
hunting).
Kutoka simba 200,000 karne 2 zilizopita mpaka simba
20,000- 30,000 ni mshtuko mkubwa sana hasa kwa wadau wa utalii. Tanzania
ndio nchi yenye simba wengi Afrika kam sio duniani kwa makadirio ya
simba 14,000.
Kama simba ndio mnyama anayependwa sana na watalii,
ina maana wakipungua au kutoonekana kutapunguza sana idadi ya utalii
nchini.
Kwa mujibu wa shirika la International Union for
Conservation of Nature, idadi ya simba Tanzania imepungua kwa 66%
kutoka 1993 mpaka 2014. Kwa mujibu wa Alexander N. Songorwa
Director of wildlife for the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism (2013) in The New York Times, March 17 2013,
wastani wa simba 200 kuuwa kwa mwaka, hela zinazopatika zinasaidia
kutunza na kulinda 26 game reserves. Kwahiyo tunategemea uwindaji ili
tuweze kutunza mapori tengefu na WMA.
Wahifadhi wengi wanatetea
uwindaji wakisema unasaidia kulinda maeneo tengefu na ya uwindaji, hela
inayopatikana inasaidia kujenga shule, hospitali, barabara nk
Uwindaji
unaweza usiwe sababu kuu kupungua kwa simba lakini ni muda wa Tanzania
kuzuia uwindaji wa simba. Kama mwananchi wa Tanzania unayependa rasili
mali zetu ungana nami kupaza sauti kuokoa simba, lakini kuokoa utalii na
uchumi kwa kupinga uwindaji wa simba nchini
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ODD
as it may sound, American trophy hunters play a critical role in
protecting wildlife in Tanzania. The millions of dollars that hunters
spend to go on safari here each year help finance the game reserves,
wildlife management areas and conservation efforts in our rapidly
growing country.
This is why we are alarmed that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
is considering listing the African lion as endangered. Doing so would
make it illegal for American hunters to bring their trophies home. Those
hunters constitute 60 percent of our trophy-hunting market, and losing
them would be disastrous to our conservation efforts.
In 2011, five animal-rights and conservation groups petitioned the Fish
and Wildlife Service to list the African lion as endangered, arguing
that the population had fallen dangerously low because of habitat loss,
poaching, commercial hunting and new diseases associated with human
encroachment. “The U.S.,” their petition said, “is by far the largest
importer of hunting trophies from Tanzania.”
While that is true, the lion population in Tanzania is not endangered.
We have an estimated 16,800 lions, perhaps 40 percent of all lions on
the continent, the biggest population in the world. Their numbers are
stable here, and while our hunting system is not perfect, we have taken
aggressive efforts to protect our lions.
In Tanzania, lions are hunted under a 21-day safari package. An average of about 200
lions are shot a year, generating about $1,960,000 in revenue. Money is
also spent on camp fees, wages, local goods and transportation. And
hunters almost always come to hunt more than one species, though the
lion is often the most coveted trophy sought. All told, trophy hunting
generated roughly $75 million for Tanzania’s economy from 2008 to 2011. (By
Alexander N. Songorwa is director of wildlife for the Tanzanian
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.The New York Times, March 17
2013,
What we say is this, KILLING DO NOT SAVE OUR LIONS, we should stop killing lions for trophy!!
Please help us to save Tanzania's lions by signing on our petition! Thank you!
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