Maasai activists hope Tanzania’s newly appointed Natural Resources Minister Hamisi Kigwangalla could put an end to big-game trophy hunting, Nick Dowson writes.
After a 25-year struggle, Maasai activists are hopeful that they will return to traditional grazing grounds that were lost to big-game trophy hunters.
Last November, Tanzania’s newly appointed Natural Resources Minister Hamisi Kigwangalla revoked the licence of a hunting concession granted to the Ortelo Business Corporation (OBC) – which is owned by the Dubai royal family – and ordered the arrest of its CEO on corruption charges.
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