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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