PRINCESS OF SAUDI ARABIA VISIT TANAPA HEADQUARTERS

                 Princess Haifa and her delegation in a discussion with the Management of TANAPA

 1.                  Princess Haifa signing a visitors book at the office of the Director General of TANAPA.

 .                  Princess Haifa Bin AbdulAziz of Saudi Arabia (far left) inspired by the statue of the Father of Nation the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere at the reception of the TANAPA Headquarters in Arusha.In the middle with black suit is the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Tanzania H.E. Hani Mominah while TANAPA’s Public Relations Manager Pascal Shelutete (first right) is also looking on.

 TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS

PRESS RELEASE

PRINCESS OF SAUDI ARABIA VISIT TANAPA HEADQUARTERS

Princess Haifa Bin AbdulAzizi Mogrin of Saudi Arabia visited Tanzania National

Parks Headquarters in Arusha yesterday and held talks with the Management of

TANAPA regarding the forthcoming youth forum on Biodiversity Conservation

scheduled for January next year in Arusha.

The Princess who is the coordinator of the forum, discussed with TANAPA on

how best the forum can be conducted. The main theme of the forum is

“Construction and Implementation of the Regulatory Framework for

Biodiversity Conservation” and will involve about 50 youths from both

Tanzania and Saudi Arabia who will have an opportunity to interact and discuss

on the future of biodiversity conservation in the two countries.

TANAPA has been appointed by the Government of Saudi Arabia to host the

forum in Arusha.

The youth forum is an initiative by King Abdullah Bin Abdulazizi for dialogue

among the forums worldwide under the program Saudi International Youth

Dialogue Forums. These forums provide the platform for Saudi youth to interact

with their peers from different countries, while adopting their creative initiatives

and solutions under various themes.

The upcoming Saudi-­‐‑Tanzania Youth Dialogue Forum (STYF) will include a

delegation of Saudi Youth who will be visiting Tanzania to learn about and

review, with their Tanzanian counterparts, the structural framework of various

agencies or societies and their roles in addition to the implementation systems of

regulatory framework for biodiversity conservation in the two countries. The

objective of the forum is to develop initiatives to ensure more effective

conservation practices locally and globally.

On his side, Director General TANAPA Allan Kijazi said TANAPA will do

everything possible to ensure that the forum will bear fruitful results.

ISSUED BY

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS

28TH NOVEMBER, 2013