VOLUME 60

How to Maintain a Game Reserve in Tanzania (16-minute Video)

Staff Writer

19 Aug 2025 — 1 min read

Can safari hunting truly serve conservation goals?
What happens to Africa's wildlife when idealism meets the harsh realities of funding and local politics?
Who bears responsibility for protecting these irreplaceable ecosystems?

This documentary delves into the intricate world of a safari hunting concessionaire and its role in wildlife conservation, a story that challenges preconceptions about who protects Africa's natural heritage.

Ganam/EBN Safaris is a safari hunting company that manages three concessions across Tanzania. Led by conservation manager Erik Nyman and his dedicated team, the company collaborates with Tanzania's Wildlife Management Authority (TAWA) to safeguard these irreplaceable ecosystems.

The film exposes the relentless pressures facing Tanzania's protected areas: sophisticated timber poaching operations stripping valuable hardwoods, bushmeat hunters decimating wildlife populations, illegal charcoal production scarring the landscape, and pastoralists encroaching on protected lands with their cattle.

Without active management, these reserves would be systematically destroyed.

Ganam/EBN conservation efforts in partnership with TAWA include building and maintaining road networks through trackless wilderness, providing water sources for wildlife during droughts, conducting controlled burns to prevent catastrophic fires, mediating human-wildlife conflicts, and managing habitats across an area larger than some countries.

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