THE Tanzanian Ministry of Tourism and
Natural Resources will in 2015/2016 fiscal year allocate funds for research
aimed at finding the reasons leading to the increase of tuskless elephants in
Tanzanian national parks.
The Ministry's Deputy Minister, Mr Mahmoud Mgimwa, said
that a number of elephants without tusks is emerging at alarming rate thus such
research was vital.
Mr Mgimwa made the remarks before the House here as he was
responding to Mr Rajab Mbarouk Mohamed's (Ole-CUF) question that pressed for
reasons leading to such shocking news. Mr Mohamed linked the situation with
rampant elephant poaching that the country is experiencing.
"Due to the increase of poaching activities in our
national parks and games, we are now experiencing even a number of elephants
without tusks increasing," he said, asking the minister to give the
reasons that make such tuskless elephants increase in number.
Mr Mgimwa noted that Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute
(TAWIRI) had already embarked on some preliminary researches to discover why
the situation prevailed. He, however, said that preliminary findings have it
that tuskless elephants were not poachers target, thus possibility of
increasing in number was so high compared to those with tusks.
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