School supplies handed to the Irkuishiabor Primary school in the Masai Open area.
Handing out wheelchairs in Mwambesi Wildlife Management Area
A new dam built in the Simanjiro Naberera Game Controlled Area.
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"Protect the Present"
Community Development
TBGS Tanzania African Big Game Safaris bullet The management of our areas includes different projects in the villages adjoining our concession areas. It is very important to make clear that carefully managed hunting in the concession areas is far more profitable for the people as well as for the environment than any other form of land use. We continue to build the trust of the people in the neighboring villages. Direct assistance managed and implemented on behalf of CFT ensures that the whole community benefits as opposed to individuals in the community. Communities must submit a formal written proposal requesting specific projects to CFT for consideration. Once approved, CFT will use their contractor, under direct supervision, to complete the approved project on the villagers behalf.
We have built and continue to build schools, churches, dispensaries, administration buildings and dams to support the local communities. We also finance ongoing projects like providing schools with school supplies, furniture to Government administration buildings and dispensaries with
medical supplies, along with famine relief throughout a majority of the concession areas.
Construction of the Lung'wa school in the Maswa North Game Reserve.
The completed school.
Famine relief in the Inyonga East and West Game controlled area.
Medical supplies donated to the Emboreet village within the
Simajiro West Game controlled Area
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"Protect the Present"
Anti-Poaching
 A crucial element of conservation is obviously the need for anti-poaching. Each and every day, the local population encroaches into Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), Game Controlled Areas (GCA) and Game Reserves (GR), looking to earn a living. This is a result of the ever increasing population of the local towns and villages.
CFT spends an incredible amount of resources on patrolling these areas, with a year-round presence. This will ensure that our children can still enjoy what we and our forefathers have enjoyed. It also helps not only to protect the animals, but to protect the natural habitat such as forest ecosystems, that disappear at an alarming rate due to charcoal burning or illegal logging.
The patrol units go on routine patrols looking for signs of any type of poaching which might be taking place in our concession areas. Meat and hide poaching is illegal to take place in any concession area and when poachers is caught there is a case immediately opened against them. The most common way of capturing animals are the non-selective methods used such as snares which cause a slow and painful death to any animal which might venture into it's path. Snares are 100 % successful in its work. Woodcutting, charcoal making, honey gathering and fishing are only allowed to be practiced with a valid permit in a GCA for a set time limit.
Poachers caught with 6 dead zebras in a private vehicle in the
Simanjiro West Game Controlled Area
Charcoal Poachers destroying their charcoal pit in The Masai East Open Area.
Our anti-poaching teams have numerous obstacles that lie ahead. We have been able to witness that all of our anti-poaching teams are dedicated to conserving our concession areas that we have the privilege and honor of managing for the country of Tanzania.
Our Maswa North Game Reserve anti-poaching team with over
200 snares retrieved out of the block.
Our Maswa North Game Reserve anti-poaching team seized meat,
various trophies, capes, spears, bows and poisoned arrows in a poachers camp.
Illegal timber camp being destroyed by our Mlele North Game
Controlled Area anti - poaching team
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"Protect the Present"
Environmental Studies and Education
CFT now has a certified environmental officer on staff who is involved in ongoing environmental impact assessments of all land types within all our concession areas. He is assisting with environmental education within the neighboring villages together with participating in many ongoing projects such as:
mapping and digitizing through GIS (Geographic Information System)
data capturing
The information collected by our environmental officer so far has been very important and has brought to light what further management can be carried out in the concession areas.
Natural untouched Miombo forest
Croachment of tobacco plantations into the Miombo forests of the
Inyonga East Game controlled Area
Miombo forests that has been cleared for tobacco planting on the boarder of our
Inyonga East Game Controlled Area
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"Protect the Present"
Protect the Present 
You too can sponsor an anti-poaching team to "Protect the Present" for a season and receive variable sized David Schaefer bronzes (depending on the amount of donation). CFT is a registered Tanzanian Non Government Organization.
For further information click here.
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