World Wildlife Day and Arusha Declaration on Wildlife Protection
Today 3rd March,2020 being a World Wildlife Day we choose to reflect on Arusha Declaration on Wildlife Protection. To all environmental and animal rights defenders, being the World Wildlife Day, we wish to celebrate this day and have merry while marking the milestones achieved. Since 1930 when the Major R.W.G Hingston a surgeon and naturalist whom had served with the British Army in India, the Middle East and East Africa undertook the survey of East and Southern Africa led to creation of Serengeti National Park. In 1961 as most African Countries were smarting from colonial struggles, the government of Tanzania-Arusha was privileged to host the first symposium on the Conservation of Nature and Natural resources in modern African States. At the meeting Mwalimu Julius Nyerere issued what became to be known as the Arusha declaration on wildlife Protection. In the declaration it is states that the survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all of us in Afri
