Tanzania: Bush Meat Hunting 'Threat to Wildlife, Forests'

Experts have warned on several occasions that conservation activities in Tanzania are seriously impaired by shortage of funding, which consequently expose the country's fantastic forests and wildlife-- especially rare species-- to imminent threats of extinction.

The funding shortfall is undermining protection of the ecology and biodiversity, which are threatened by and left vulnerable to illegal human activities, such as poaching, logging and farming.

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