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Lifestyle & Safaris
Illegal game meat traders face legal action
Posted: Wednesday May 06, 2009 2:30 AM BT
The government has warned unscrupulous traders who engage in illegal game meat business reportedly growing countrywide that their days are numbered. A statement issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism's Permanent Secretary Ms Blandina Nyoni stated that it was illegal under the Wildlife Conservation Act for anyone to deal or trade in fresh, cooked or dried bush-meat.
![]() Hunting Game Meat in Tanzania
Ms Nyoni also said that currently illegal trade in game meat was being conducted in various parts of the country in premises including local and tourists' hotels, lodges and camps, restaurants cafes, bars, local brew joints, guest houses and homes. In the list she also named butcheries, retail and wholesale food shops, make-shift food stalls, open markets as well as offices and saloons. The government has also alerted the public to be cautious with several strategies used to market the illegal business including advertisements on menus, packaging in small plastic bags and processing in beef canning factories. In elaboration, the ministry also warned that any person dealing in the harvesting or utilisation of wild life games without a hunting licence or trade in bush-meat in any form is liable to prosecution. Meanwhile, some public health officers and experts who spoke to this newspaper confirmed that 'bush-meat poses a risk to human health.' They said that the meat was host to many deadly-diseases that have already been confirmed to spread from the animals to man time and again. The experts named some of the diseases as ebola and monkey pox amongst others. Daily News
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