Tanzania launches 300-man strong anti-poaching force

Vice president Samia Suluhu Hassan (Saturday) presided at the inauguration of the paramilitary group tasked with combating poaching and illegal trafficking of wildlife products.

The squad started with 313 members, both female and male personnel in total, and it will operate under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.

The government has dedicated over 25% of the countries land to wildlife protected areas (national parks, conservation areas, game reserves and game controlled areas).

Tanzania was previously known as "the epicenter of Africa's elephant poaching crisis" after a government census revealed loss of a catastrophic 60% of its elephants between 2009 and 2014.

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Air Tanzania to Fly to Mumbai

Air Tanzania has announced that very soon ots Dream liner will be making way to Mumbai.

As seen in its Social Media handles, this is what the Airline had to say:

MUMBAI Fly Air Tanzania Dreamliner 787 direct from Dar es Salaam to Mumbai. Watch this space for more details. #TheWingsOfKilimanjaro #EndeleaKupasuaAnga #Mumbai #India #Dreamliner

This is a huge opportunity for the tourism sector in the country for now tourists can book and come straight to Tanzania through Air Tanzania.

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Safari News: The Keen Project Builds One-Off Porsche 911 Off-Road Safari Cars

Leh Keen is a professional race car driver and expert on Porsches being that he drove them professionally for many years. 

You may remember Keen from last year's /DRIVE on NBC Sports season when he helped hosts Matt Farah, Chris Harris, and Mike Spinelli race in the ChumpCar VIR24 endurance race with their 1988 BMW 325is. Beyond thrashing Porsche's on track, Keen has another hobby: Making some of the best off-road Porsches in the world.

Keen recently sat down with VINwiki to talk about his company, The Keen Project. Started in 2013, The Keen Project is where the Georgia native builds one-off Porsche 911 off-road Safari cars that have gained loads of praise across the interwebs. Keen says it was always about making a Porsche he wanted for himself, but one that may be interesting to other people too. He is a fan of Porsches reimagined by Singer and even has an Akira Nakai built Rauh-Welt Begriff Porsche to call his own. He sees those cars as works of art and strives to create his own versions of that with a completely different Porsche goal. 

"We are all about having fun. We don't try to overthink anything or overbuild anything. Just the right ingredients to make the car happy and the driver happy," Keen told  The Drive. "Most of the donor cars we get have been sitting in a garage for a decade or more and need some rust fixed, chassis gone through, and the engine prepped. In the end, the cars get a new life and are far far away from that garage they were sitting in covered in dust."

Best way to follow Leh and The Keen Project is his Instagram. Check out VINwiki's 'The Keen Project' video below.

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Photographic Tourism to Beef up Tanzania’s Economy

Photographic hunting is the next card Tanzania is ready to play to attract tourists' attention, luring them to one of the most competitive tourism destinations in Africa. The Tanzania Tourism Board is set to ensure that the tourism sector in the country delivers the best and becomes the best globally. The second highest raking foreign exchange earner in the country after minerals is tourism.

Plans are underway to ensure the strategy is tackled effectively. The new strategy will pay off with Tanzania boasting of a bevy of diversity in culture, geographic landscapes, and food among other aspects. The aim is to capture tourists’ attention to what they love and would want to experience. It would be an effective measure to meet the market’s demand directly and with maximum satisfaction.

With the plan, Tanzania hopes to bring in more revenue to sustain the country's economy, and fund other developments that are taking over in the country. This goal will help the tourism board understand the market and what customary changes need to be made in order to be more relevant and appealing to the audience. The country has been marketing and branding their tourism sector to revive the spark that once was.

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