{"id":8890,"date":"2020-04-01T08:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","slug":"zanzibar-bans-wildlife-hunting-in-jozani-forest-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/04\/01\/zanzibar-bans-wildlife-hunting-in-jozani-forest-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Zanzibar Bans Wildlife Hunting In Jozani Forest Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zanzibar Minister for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Livestock and Fisheries Mmanga Mjengo Mjawiri &nbsp;said when handing out 400m\/- to villagers around the Jozani Forest Reserve as compensation for their &nbsp;&nbsp;crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mjawiri said the government has taken the decision to curb the habit of people going inside the forest reserve to hunt &nbsp;&nbsp;animals, and added that the poachers even hunt some endangered species &nbsp;&nbsp;including Ader\u2019s duiker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chairman of the farmers\u2019 association around Jozani Forest Reserve Yussuf Mshenga said despite beefing up of patrols &nbsp;&nbsp;people still &nbsp;invaded the reserve for tree cutting for timber and firewood. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said another activity is beekeeping and during the past two years incidents of fire occurred attributed to honey harvesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2000 Jozani Forest was included in the list of Tanzania National Parks and is famous for its unique wildlife including colobus monkeys and tree hyrax birds species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Established in the 1960s the Jozani forest is a conservation area in the core of Zanzibar Island covering an area of 50 square kilometers, it also includes a section of the Jozani Chwaka National Park. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippmedia.com\/en\/news\/zanzibar-bans-wildlife-hunting-jozani-forest-reserve?amp\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zanzibar Minister for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Livestock and Fisheries Mmanga Mjengo Mjawiri &nbsp;said when handing out 400m\/- to villagers around the Jozani Forest Reserve as compensation for their &nbsp;&nbsp;crops.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}