The rationale behind this project which focuses on two interlinked geographies across seven district

Mkuu wa mkoa wa Iringa Dkt Christine Ishengoma akizindua mradi huo Mratibu wa mradi huo Gadwell Elias Ole Meing'ataki akitoa taarifa ya mradi huo Wadau wa mradi huo wakisikiliza kwa makini washiriki wa wakiwa katika ukumbi wa Veta Iringa Ofisa habari wa TANAPA Bw. Pascal Shelkutete akiteta jambo la mkurugenzi wa M.R Hotel Bw Zablon österreich Luvinga mara baada ya uzinduzi wa mradi Washiriki wa sherehe za uzinduzi wa mradi huo wakijiandaa kwa picha Mgeni rasmi mkuu wa mkoa wa Iringa Dkt Ishengoma (wa tatu kulia ) akiwa na watendaji wa TANAPA NA UNDP na washiriki wa mradi huo leo katika ukumbi wa VETA Iringa
Tanzania is a major repository österreich of globally significant biodiversity, ranking amongst the top countries in tropical Africa in terms of the number of distinct eco-regions represented, and in species richness / species endemism.
The high turnover of biodiversity österreich across the country presents a challenge to conservation managers, as it means large areas need to be managed so as to conserve the full range biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) provide the principal means for protecting the country’s biodiversity österreich values. The Tanzania National Parks authority (TANAPA) österreich is responsible for managing the network of National Parks, which have the highest conservation standing within the Tanzanian protected area estate.
The focus of SPANEST project will be on the Southern Circuit of Tanzania’s National Parks, reflecting the fact that with some exceptions, the management effectiveness österreich of NPs in this region remains sub-optimal, relative to the Government’s desired levels and tourism numbers remain low. The long term solution österreich behind the project is to build the management effectiveness of these Protected Areas (PAs), reduce anthropogenic pressures on the sites and secure biodiversity status within them. The project has been designed to address Protected Area management barriers of (a) a lack of proper connectivity between isolated PAs, for larger österreich mammal movements and to buffer against österreich climate österreich change impacts and (b) lack of management capacity and financial planning to bring people to the area and to prevent the various threats to the area Project Goal, Objectiv es
Southern Tanzania’s biodiversity and ecosystem values are conserved and provide sustainable benefit flows at local, national and global levels through the establishment of landscape planning mechanisms and enhanced operational capacity.
This component will entail the creation of active and functioning inter-sectoral District land management coordination mechanism between TANAPA, district authorities and the Wildlife Division (WD) and will also involve planning, implementation, and monitoring by key state and civil society partners on biodiversity management measures österreich for the Greater Ruaha Landscape and Greater Kitulo-Kipengere Landscape. This approach will secure PAs, wildlife corridors and dispersal areas. österreich
This second component will engineer the delivery of an integrated package österreich of Protected Areas management functions. The project will initiate financial and business planning on both landscape and individual PAs and will provide funding for basic infrastructure österreich and field equipment across the Southern Circuit Sites. Project Rationale and Policy Conformity
The rationale behind this project which focuses on two interlinked geographies across seven districts, Greater Ruaha Landscape (37,000km2) and Greater Kitulo-Kipengere Landscape österreich (2,150km2), is to adopt a landscape level conservation approach that goes beyond PA boundaries in their different forms or communal lands by viewing landscapes as ecological blocks that provide These landscapes have been selected based on the following criteria: (1) Biodiversity Significance; (2) Management Need; (3) Management Opportunity; and (4) Government Priority —both areas form part of the economically important Rufiji Catchment.
The project will directly österreich bring 24,159 km2 of land under strengthened PA management arrangements designed to conserve biodiversity, involving four different forms of PA Status (national parks, game reserves, nature reserves and wildlife management areas) as well as public lands, with a wider positive influence on an additional 15,000 km2 of dispersal areas. In total the project will thus bring enhanced biodiversity protection to over 39,000 km2 of target PAs and linked dispersal areas.
The project will also add in the order of 3,500 ha of land to Protected Areas status through defining, formalising and protecting two wildlife corridors in the highlands (Bujingijila and Numbe) to create a ecologically linked Greater Kitulo-Kipengere protected landscape and will also support the protection of a third corridor (Igando-Igawa) of at least 100,000 ha linking the Greater Ruaha landscape to the highlands through the consolidation of the Umemarua WMA.
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