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Thu, 08/01/2013 - 10:51
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Tanzania, Thailand sign MOU on wildlife management

DAR ES SALAM, August 1 (TNA) - Tanzania and Thailand have inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation on wildlife management between the two allied countries. After witnessing the signing of the MOU in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's capital, on Wednesday afternoon (local time), visiting Thai Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told TNA that the agreement allows Thai officials to study on wildlife conservation in Tanzania. Yingluck acknowledged that Thailand plans to review national parks management process, aimed at allowing wildlife to live very close to the nature and to also create friendliness between humans and animals. Yingluck’s idea comes after she and accompanying senior Thai officials visited Serengeti National Park in Tanzania earlier Wednesday, during which they also had an opportunity to study how the park takes care wildlife staying there plus ecotourism practices in the Eastern African country. Besides, the Thai prime minister and her entourage were briefed by Tanzania’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism officials that the Eastern African nation has a policy to protect wildlife and allows people to play a role in managing tourism destinations related to wildlife, which has earned Tanzania about 17 per cent of its total annual gross domestic product (GDP). The Thai prime minister and her entourage are scheduled to leave for an official visit to Uganda later Thursday. The Thai premier is on a six-day official visits to Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda from July 28-August 2. Her trip to Tanzania is the second leg of her ongoing visit to the Eastern African region, after Mozambique but before Uganda. (TNA)

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