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A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS JULY - SEPTEMBER, 2012 ISSUE 013

TANAPA and UNDP launch conservation project

Importance of wildebeests for Serengeti ecology

Tanzania receives three rhinos from UK

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R CONTENTS Regulars 0HVVDJHIURPWKH'LUHFWRU*HQHUDO From Editor’s Desk 6 News Executive Interview with TANAPA Director General 7 TANAPA and UNDP launch conservation project in protected areas 9 Tanzania Receives Three Black Rhinos From UK 11 TANAPA on a mission to promote Tanzania abroad 13 Published by Tanapa Review Its Policy, Investment Tanzania National Parks Procedures and Customer Service Charter 15 Mwl. Nyerere Conservation Centre P.O. Box 3134, Arusha Tanzania 3URGXFHUVDGYLVHGWRXVHGLIIHUHQW6WUDWHJLHVLQ [email protected] broadcasting their programmes 16 TANAPA to Prop Up More Tourist Circuits 17 Editor-In-Chief News in Picture 18 Allan Kijazi Let us Plan Together! 20 Editor 1HZVLQ%ULHI Pascal Shelutete

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R Message from the Director General

Allan Kijazi

Our dear valued readers,

May I take this opportunity to welcome you all in this special forum whereby we update you on corporate activities and events in our world famous National Parks.

It is my expectation that we have all along tried our level best to produce this quarterly newsletter with enough and relevant information useful to you all. As we are getting to the middle of the year 2012, it is my responsibility once again to thank you all for the role you are playing in making sure that our parks continue to be effectively managed for the betterment of the current and the future generations.

Rest assured that the Management of TANAPA works hard day and night to ensure that we offer quality services to our customers who travel from various source markets to visit the spectacular attractions in our parks. We understand that we have a special responsibility that has been bestowed to us by Tanzanians and we commit ourselves that we will continue improving our services to world standards.

Our records in the past few months have shown an increase in the number of visitors in our parks, which is an indication that our efforts of promoting the parks bear fruitful results. We have also managed to observe some visitors from new markets such as the South Korea, China, Turkey and Russia visiting the parks. We are currently reviewing our policy to accommodate new policy developments that will make TANAPA offer packages of unique products and services that will be highly competitive. Through this review, TANAPA will be able to engage in some business ventures so as to increase diversity of revenues for the organization.

It is no doubt that all these changes will make a difference in meeting our customer’s expectations. It is worth informing the public that poaching still remains a threat to the survival of some wildlife species. We are doing our best to ensure that we get rid of this threat which tarnishes the image of our country. 0D\,DWWKLVMXQFWXUHDSSHDOWRDOOJRRGFLWL]HQVWRZRUNFORVHO\ZLWK7$1$3$ÀJKWIHDUOHVVO\WRSURWHFW our wildlife. We assure full cooperation to all those who will volunteer to work with us in this endeavour.

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Allan Kijazi Director General Tanzania National Parks

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R REGULARS

From Editor’s Desk

Pascal Shelutete

Dear readers,

Hope all is well with you and the fact that we are in now in the middle of the year, doubtless our Almighty God will continue leading us through to the end of it.

Your issue this time around brings you some palatable stuff ever seen elsewhere with an opening exclusive interview with, Mr. Allan Kijazi, TANAPA’s Director General who shares with our readers his vast experience in the conservation and tourism industry. He has a lot to offer you through his interview.

In its move to work closely with various stakeholders both locally and internationally, TANAPA together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a conservation project in the southern part of the country. In the same line of working with conservation partners, TANAPA has recently received three black rhinos from the United Kingdom as part of improving its population in the country. This issuewill take you through and provide you with all the details.

Tourism being the secondary core function of the organization and at the same time being the main source of revenue which is then ploughed back to conservation activities is paid attention by TANAPA as we have now decided to use our embassies abroad to help promote our attractions. Some newly appointed ambassadors were invited to visit some of these attractions in the parks.

The editorial team has also prepared some features which will help you become knowledgeable in the areas of conservation and tourism in the parks which is actually the main purpose of this newsletter.

Last but not least, may I wish you once again good health in your endeavour and we also welcome your ideas and opinions through the provided address below so that together we can improve our way of communication with you all.

Thanks!

Pascal Shelutete Public Relations Manager Tanzania National Parks [email protected]

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS

On the carpet: Allan Kijazi

Executive Interview with TANAPA Director General Allan Kijazi Question: Ordinary Tanzanian citizens would like to our independence. Due to that, therefore, Tanzania ranks know something about TANAPA and what it does in second after Brazil as a country with wide expanse of terms of conservation virgin land, natural growth and indigenous wildlife. And Answer: The Tanzania National Parks’ historys dates back much of the untouched, virgin land in the country lies WRZKHQLWZDVRI¿FLDOO\HVWDEOLVKHG7$1$3$LVD within the jurisdiction of Tanzania National Parks. public entity which has been granted total responsibility to execute and oversee all matters of conservation in the Q: What about achievements in tourism? National Parks. A: That is another area where we deserve a pat on the back. Before independence Tanganyika used to get just 3,000 tourists per year. At the moment, independent Before independence in 1961, Tanganyika had only three Tanzania attracts over 750,000 tourists in a year and National Parks namely Serengeti, Lake Manyara and that is something TANAPA can be proud of. In other Arusha but as of now, these have increased to a total of 15 words, even revenue earned from the tourism sector, National Parks and soon after the upgrading of Saanane which depends on National Parks for over 90 percent, Island in Mwanza Tanzania will have the 16th National has increased. Wildlife-oriented visitors account for Park. All this is in line with the government’s efforts to 90 percent of all tourists coming to Tanzania. Over 17 identify, preserve and improve our natural resources and percent of the total country’s income is raised from the heritage. The parks and national reserves are spread all Tourism Industry. over the country. Q: How can TANAPA be compared to other institutions? Q: Before TANAPA, how were the country’s natural A: After independence Tanzania had many state-owned resources taken care of? companies but many have since closed shop with a few A: Initially, members of the local communities used to others struggling. TANAPA has not only maintained its undertake the task of preserving the resources. They presence for 52 years, but it is also getting stronger by still have the same responsibility but TANAPA was greatly contributing to the country’s economy as well as established to coordinate the efforts on their behalf for the expanding its activities. TANAPA also provides direct EHQH¿WRIIXWXUHJHQHUDWLRQV:HH[SHFWDOO7DQ]DQLDQVWR employment to nearly 2,050 people in line with the contribute to the conservation efforts as well as helping government’s initiative to provide jobs for its citizens. TANAPA to improve its activities. Also, the tourism industry which relies on TANAPA for its products is the leading employer in the country. Arusha 7KH SHRSOH LQ WXUQ ZLOO EHQH¿W IURP VRFLDO VHUYLFHV alone has 350 tour companies most of them operating in and community development projects that TANAPA the tourism attractions that involve animal gazing game is executing in many villages in Tanzania because the drives. Thousands of other Tanzanians are also indirectly natural resources and wildlife attract foreign exchange employed in tourism, hotel or conservation sectors or when tourists come into the country just to marvel at the pivoted on natural resources and wildlife axis. natural wealth that our country has been endowed with. Q: But how is the state of our parks in terms of Q: Apart from National Parks’ number increasing from infrastructure, safety, public services and other three to 16, what other achievements can TANAPA boast amenities? of in the 50 years of Tanzania Mainland Independence? A: Parks located within the Northern Tourism circuit are well taken care of; we are talking about Serengeti, Lake A: Having many National Parks is one thing but the Manyara, Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Tarangire outstanding thing about our parks is that they have retained their natural state of existence since creation, something WKDWKDVEHHQPDLQWDLQHGWKURXJKRXWWKH¿YHGHFDGHVRI Continues on Page 8

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... Continued from Page 7 that have proper all-weather roads, high-class hotels and 70 percent of the costs, while the respective communities good security. More efforts are being taken to ensure that pay the remaining 30 percent. We want to inculcate the all other remaining National Parks are accessible and notion that TANAPA is not a donor but rather a partner to provide high standard services. This year we started with their development. Ruaha, in the Southern circuit in which we are upgrading the road network and constructing connecting bridges. Q: Local people don’t seem to like visiting parks; how Katavi National Park is the next in the programme. far have we advanced in promoting domestic tourism in WKHODVW¿YHGHFDGHV" At TANAPA we take the issue of human resources very A: The concept of National Parks was conceived during seriously and constantly train and upgrade our staff. colonial days when Europeans started them as places Actually, we have a vision for the next 50 years in to visit and relax with their families and friends as they which we target to be the world’s leading establishment gazed at animals. Even after independence it is people in providing quality tourism services and executing from Europe and America who continue to visit the conservation strategies. On safety, let me assure you that National Parks bringing along friends, but very few we have never had any serious case of breach of safety Tanzanians have been touring our parks because they to tourists visiting our parks, but we still reinforce the believe the reserves are only for foreigners. guides and security departments. We recently started a countrywide campaign to promote domestic tourism but we are challenged by lack of Q: What about community involvement in issues of affordable accommodation facilities because hotels conservation? inside National Parks are too expensive for the locals. A: Actually, this is one of the remarkable achievements Again, many Tanzanians cannot afford to hire tour of independence because before 1961, we never had these vehicles to take them into the parks. We have thus started community programmes that involved local people in to construct accommodation facilities that can cater for conservation efforts. In the 1980s, we formed the ‘good low income people, charging between TShs. 10,000/- neighbourhood’ programmes with local communities and 20,000/- per night and that is very cheap compared surrounding the National Parks. We have a special to tourist hotels that demand up to US $ 200 (300,000/-) department to cater for such programmes at respective a night. park’s level and at the headquarters. We are working with the private sector to solve the The department conducts training programmes and work transport problem in order to make people living far away ZLWKYLOODJHVWRLGHQWLI\SURMHFWVWKDWFDQEHRIEHQH¿WWR from them to be able to access the parks at affordable them in which TANAPA helps to execute them by meeting prices.

TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS No. Name of the Park Establishment Size 1. Arusha 1960 328.4 sq.km 2. Gombe 1968 52 sq.km 3. Katavi 1974 4,471 sq.km 4. Kilimanjaro 1973 1,688 sq.km 5. Lake Manyara 1960 648.7 sq.km 6. Mahale Mountains 1980 1,613 sq.km 7. Mikumi 1964 3,230 sq.km 8. Ruaha 1964 20,300 sq.km 9. Rubondo Island 1977 457 sq.km 10. Serengeti 1959 14,763 sq.km 11. Tarangire 1970 2,850 sq.km 12. Udzungwa Mountains 1992 1,990 sq.km 13. Saadani 2005 1,062 sq.km 14. Kitulo 2005 465.4 sq.km 15. Mkomazi 2008 3,245 sq.km

8 TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 NEWS TANAPA and UNDP launch conservation project on protected areas

By Godwell Ole Meing’ataki between isolated PAs, for larger mammal movements and to buffer against climate change impacts and lack anzania National Parks (TANAPA) and the United RIPDQDJHPHQWFDSDFLW\DQG¿QDQFLDOSODQQLQJWREULQJ Nations Development Program (UNDP) recently people to the area and to prevent the various threats to Tlaunched a project known as Strengthening the area. the Protected Area Network in Southern Tanzania’ (SPANEST). The launching of the SPANEST project The rationale behind this project which focuses on two which was done in Iringa Region is designed to lift the interlinked geographies across seven districts, Greater barriers to the establishment of a landscape approach Ruaha Landscape (37,000km2) and Greater Kitulo - to the management of biodiversity. The project aims Kipengere Landscape (2,150km2), is to adopt a landscape to increase the effectiveness of the National Parks in level conservation approach that goes beyond Protected protecting biodiversity and provide for the long-term Area boundaries in their different forms or communal HFRORJLFDO VRFLDO DQG ¿QDQFLDO VXVWDLQDELOLW\ RI WKDW lands by viewing landscapes as ecological blocks that system. they provide. These landscapes have been selected based RQ WKH IROORZLQJ FULWHULD %LRGLYHUVLW\ 6LJQL¿FDQFH The focus of the project is in the Southern Circuit of Management Need; Management Opportunity and 7DQ]DQLD¶V 1DWLRQDO 3DUNV UHÀHFWLQJ WKH IDFW WKDW ZLWK Government Priority—both areas form part of the some exceptions, the management effectiveness of HFRQRPLFDOO\LPSRUWDQW5X¿ML&DWFKPHQW National Parks in this region remains sub-optimal, relative to the Government’s desired levels and tourism SPANEST project is responsible for achieving the main numbers remain low. The long term solution behind the two objectives which are Integrating Management of NPs project is to build the management effectiveness of these and Broader Landscapes. This component will entail the Protected Areas (PAs), reduce anthropogenic pressures creation of active and functioning inter-sectoral District on the sites and secure biodiversity status within them. land management coordination mechanism between The project has been designed to address Protected Area management barriers of a lack of proper connectivity Continues on Page 10 ...

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS Tanzania Receives Three Black Rhinos From UK

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By TT Correspondent The rhinos were translocated from the United Kingdom by the donors – Tanzania National Parks has received three black rhinos from Britain. The rhinos were handed over to the Damian Aspinall and Amos George Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Honourable of the Aspinall Foundation and Port Ambassador Khamis Kagasheki by the UK’s High Lympne Wild Animal Park. Commissioner Ms. Diane Corner in Mkomazi National Park recently.

During the handing over ceremony, Ms. Diane Corner In her handing-over remarks, High Comissioner Corner said that her country and Tanzania share very common lauded Mr. Tony Fitzjohn of the George Adamson Wildlife aims in protecting the remaining rhinoceros population. Preservation Trust as well as his talented and dedicated Tanzanian team for building, stocking and managing The rhinos were translocated from the United Kingdom the Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary to a highly professional by the donors – Damian Aspinall and Amos George of the level where they were able to accept the donation of the Aspinall Foundation and Port Lympne Wild Animal Park rhinos, protect them, breed them up and perpetuate the and ferried to Tanzania aboard a huge DHL 757 aircraft. very precious species.

The rhinos’ motorcade, which was under tight security, Ambassador Kagasheki told the envoy that the history arrived at Mkomazi National Park at 2:30 pm where Ms. of black rhino population in Tanzania and Africa in Corner handed over the wild animals to Ambassador general has been one of a disappointment, saying during Kagasheki before they were taken to their cage at Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary. Continues on Page 12 ...

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the 1960’s, it was estimated that there were about 70,000 as the future generation will come and ask on the integrity black rhinos in Africa, of which 10,000 were in Tanzania, and worthiness of our existence at the time. the largest concentration of black rhino in Africa. Earlier, the Director General of Tanzania National Parks, However, the Minister said by 1984, it was estimated that Mr. Allan Kijazi, told the audience that black rhinos Tanzania’s rhino population had been reduced by 70% ZHUHFODVVL¿HGDVµ&ULWLFDOO\(QGDQJHUHG¶LQWKH:RUOG from 10,000 in 1960 to around 3,000. Worse still, said Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List in 1996 and is Ambassador Kagasheki, “by 1990 black rhino number in listed on Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Tanzania had been reduced by over 97% to less than 100 Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora. animals, a tragic story indeed”, he pointed out. He said Mkomazi, whose status was upgraded to a “The severe decline in rhino numbers and the extent of National Park on March 14, 2008, used to have a large poaching throughout the country has continued to pose a serious challenge in our anti-poaching operations,”he population of black rhinos until that population was said. Ambassador Kagasheki has asked communities wiped out in the 1980’s, adding that Mkomazi hosted living around all national parks countrywide to offer between 150 to 250 eastern black rhinos back in 1968, maximum support to wildlife conservation organs in estimated at nine black rhinos per square kilometre. By the country to ensure that black rhinos and other highly the 1980’s the population of the animals had dropped to endangered wild animals do not disappear from the earth below twenty.

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS TANAPA on a mission to promote Tanzania abroad

By Pascal Shelutete grant’s gazelle. The envoys enjoyed two days of DQ]DQLD 1DWLRQDO 3DUNV UHFHQWO\ LQYLWHG ¿YH learning as they witnessed newly-appointed envoys to Serengeti, Katavi and the migration of animals TRuaha National Parks as part of its strategy to which takes place between promote the country abroad. The visit was organized so -DQXDU\DQG0DUFKHYHU\\HDU DVWRHTXLSWKHHQYR\VZLWK¿UVWKDQGNQRZOHGJHRIWKH country’s natural resources especially in tourism so that After the adventure in thee they can be in a better position to market the attractions northern circuit, they moved ttoo effectively. The ambassadors included Dr. Diodorus Katavi which is in the Westernern .DPDOD %HOJLXP 'U -DPHV 0VHNHOD ,WDO\ 'U Circuit. Katavi is Tanzania’s third Ladislaus Komba (Uganda), Mohamed Hamza (Egypt) largest national park. It is foundd in the and Philip Marmo (China). remote southwest part of the ccountry,ountry, within the Rift Valley that terminatesminates Their visit started in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania’s in the shallow, brooding expanseanse of most popular park and a world heritage site. The park Lake Rukwa. is famed for its annual wildebeest migration, when six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than Katavi’s number one attraction is hippos. Towards the 200,000 zebras and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the HQGRIWKHGU\VHDVRQXSWRKLSSRVÀRSWRJHWKHULQ wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. DQ\SRRORIVXI¿FLHQWGHSWK$QGDVPRUHKLSSRVJDWKHULQ one place, so does male rivalry heat up- bloody territorial Even when there is no migration going on, Serengeti ¿JKWVDUHDQHYHU\GD\RFFXUUHQFHZLWKWKHYDQTXLVKHG offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing male forced to lurk hapless on the open plains until it opportunities in Africa ranging from great herds of JDWKHUVVXI¿FLHQWFRQ¿GHQFHWRPRXQWDQRWKHUFKDOOHQJH buffalo to thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala to The visit to Katavi gave an opportunity for them to pay a courtesy call to the Prime Minister’s home where they were impressed by the Premier’s agricultural projects. The ambassadors then completed their adventure by visiting Ruaha National Park in the Southern Circuit. In Ruaha game viewing starts the moment the plane touches down. Giraffes race along the airstrip, all legs and necks yet oddly elegant and zebras parade across the runway in the giraffe’s wake. Beneath bulbous baobab trees, a section of Ruaha’s 10,000 elephants –the largest population of any East African national park, form a protective huddle around their young.

Second only to Katavi in its aura Director General of TANAPA, Mr. Allan Kijazi (right) shares wilderness, Ruaha protects a vast tract of the rugged, semi a light moment with the Tanzanian Ambassador in Belgium, arid bush country that characterizes central Tanzania. $PEDVVDGRU'U'LRGRUXV.DPDODZKRSDLGDFRXUWHV\FDOOWR 2Q WKHLU VHYHQWK DQG ODVW GD\ WKH HQYR\V ÀHZ EDFN WR 7$1$3$+HDGTXDUWHUVUHFHQWO\ Dar es Salaam and held a press conference organized by

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... Continued from Page 13 He says the number of hotel rooms in the parks is not VXI¿FLHQW WR FDWHU IRU PRUH WRXULVWV³7KLV LV DQRWKHU TANAPA. TANAPA has promised to do the same for new challenge even if we (envoys) promote the parks abroad envoys and those who are already overseas representing and guests turn up where will they stay if the hotels the country in order for them to understand the challenges in the parks such as Ruaha are rather limited?” asked and opportunities of the parks. Ambassador Hamza. According to Ambassador Hamza 7KH 7DQ]DQLD$PEDVVDGRU WR ,WDO\ 'U -DPHV 0VHNHOD people living close to the parks invade the protected said they were surprised to learn that out of the 15 national areas and therefore need to be sensitized. He added, “The SDUNVRQO\WZRPDNHSUR¿WDQGWKUHHKDUGO\EUHDNHYHQ JRYHUQPHQWQHHGVWRGRPRUHWR¿JKWSRDFKLQJDVWKH\ The parks that receive most visitors are Serengeti and were briefed by TANAPA that the problem is rampant as Kilimanjaro followed by Tarangire, Lake Manyara and poachers use sophisticated weapons. Arusha national parks. “We have a huge task ahead of us in promoting tourism”, he noted. “I think TANAPA needs helicopters for surveillance which will help to scare poachers”, Komba added. On He said that as ambassadors they have a role to play in infrastructure he said the government needs to improve ensuring that they work closely with the government and the quality of airports and airstrips in the western and development partners abroad to open up the southern and western circuit so as to encourage more tourists to southern circuits to make the areas easily accessible visit the areas. Dr. Msekela said Serengeti is popular by tourists. He urged the government and TANAPA to because the infrastructure is good and locals in the area set aside areas for investment so that investors can be are involved in the development and protection of the easily allocated land. Ambassador Kamala proposed for park and now the rest of the southern and western circuits increased tourist fees to match the value the tourists get need to act the same. for seeing various attractions in the parks.

Speaking on challenges, Ambassador Mohamed Hamza “The money tourists pay as park entry is little in said the Western and Southern circuits are less developed. comparison to the value of the attractions they see,” Dr. “Serengeti can be entered through various routes but take a park like Ruaha there is only one route that is from Kamala said adding that the fees should be revisited. Iringa town which we were told that during the rainy According to TANAPA the fees for non-East Africans season it is a headache,” he noted. ranges from 40 to 100 USD depending on the park.

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS TANAPA Reviews Its Policy, Investment Procedures And Customer Service Charter By TT Correspondent It is also clear in the document that TANAPA has a duty he management of Tanzania National Parks to advertise all available investment opportunities such met at Lake Manyara National Park recently to as accommodation facilities and tourism activities to the Treview the organization’s Policy as well as its public through print and electronic media. Development, Action, and Lease Procedures (DALP) and Customer Service Charter. ,Q D PRYH WR HQVXUH WKDW FXVWRPHUV DUH VDWLV¿HG ZLWK the services offered by TANAPA, the management also The meeting which was chaired by the Acting Director of reviewed its Customer Care Service Charter which is a Planning, Development Projects and Tourism Services, commitment to always provide its customers with the Dr. Ezekiel Dembe was meant to enable TANAPA to optimum standard of services. FRSHZLWKYDULRXVFKDQJHVWKDWRFFXUUHGGXULQJWKH¿IW\ years of its existence. Both the review of the policy and the investment procedures focus on making the parks with their wildlife ³7$1$3$ZDVHVWDEOLVKHGRYHU¿IW\\HDUVDJRZKHUHE\ ÀRUD DQG IDXQD DQG XQWUDPSOHG ODQGVFDSHV WKH FKRLFH a number of policies in the country have also been remaining pieces of the biosphere that is the quality established. We, therefore, need to adjust ours so as to of life on earth. It is further insisted that the continued cope with those changes and thereby avoid unnecessary health, welfare and survival of our parks and wildlife collisions”, said Dr. Dembe during the opening of the UHÀHFWWKHVWDWXVRIWKHKXPDQFRQGLWLRQ meeting. There is now a need to have a balance between The meeting which comprised of all the Directors, preservation and use to ensure the long-term survival of Managers and Chief Park Wardens also had a detailed WKHSDUNVDQGZLOGOLIHLQDZD\WKDWEHQH¿WVERWKORFDO discussion on improving the organization’s DALP and regional populations as well as international visitors. GRFXPHQW DV WKHUH ZDV D QHHG IRU7$1$3$ WR EHQH¿W TANAPA has a role to ensure that in balancing this act, from the investment process in the parks. these landscapes of the parks remained unspoiled, as benchmarks to what once was and to serve as the last TANAPA’s DALP document requires all developmental bastion of hope for the preservation of biodiversity. activities within the national parks to comply with the requirements listed in it as well as the approved park plans. The DALP document is also focused on planned The document also provides a step by step procedure for investments in the parks for generating revenues for seeking approval to develop roads, facilities or activities FRQVHUYDWLRQ DQG SHUSHWXDO EHQH¿W RI QDWLRQDO DQG within any National Park in Tanzania. international community without impairing the resources.

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS Producers advised to use different Strategies in broadcasting their programmes

By TT Correspondent Participants were also advised to use social media to advertise and broadcast their programs because a large Producers of educational programmes to the public percentage of people are now using internet in getting through Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) were information. It was established during the training that advised to apply different strategies in broadcasting their in Tanzania 70 percent men use a social network of programs to the community in order to deliver accurate Facebook and women is 30 percent while Kenyan women information. The call was made recently by the Iringa use Facebook than Men. Also 80 percent of people use Regional Commissioner, Dr. Christine Ishengoma when mobile phones in listening to radio and therefore it is opening TBC’s stakeholders workshop jointly organized advised that companies and private institutions use these by TBC and TANAPA. networks in broadcasting and announcing their subject in order to be parallel with the new technology. During the meeting which was attended by radio programme producers from government and non The meeting was closed by the Director General governmental institutions, Dr. Ishengoma said that it of Tanzania National Parks, Mr. Allan Kijazi who is high time now program producers insist on reaching congratulated TBC for preparing the training and said wider audiences in their program especially communities that TANAPA will continue offering necessary support in the rural areas. in organising training workshops for public educators.

She further commended efforts by TANAPA and TBC for RUJDQL]LQJVXFKDPHHWLQJZKLFKVLJQL¿FDQWO\KHOSVWR train producers of public education programmes.

The meeting was held for ten days and the producers were equipped with knowledge on various aspects such as how to prepare radio programs; how to pre - test the programmes before reaching the audiences and how to understand the audience of the programmes.

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS TANAPA to Prop Up More Tourist Circuits

By TT Correspondent

Tanzania National Parks recently organized a workshop with the northern zone senior journalists to discuss ways on how to promote domestic tourism in the country.

The Director General of the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA), Mr Allan Kijazi appealed to the media to promote the underrated Western and Southern tourism circuits.

Other unsung but Tanzania’s attractions with %LUGVDW5XERQGR,VODQG1DWLRQDO3DUN0ZDQ]D tourism potential include islands like the Rubondo of Mwanza, Lake Tanganyika peninsulars such as Mr Kijazi is of the view that the country stands to Gombe and Mahale and the virgin Edens found gain much more if the other tourist attractions in within Katavi National Park. the West and South will be opened up and highly promoted globally. “The government is already working to open up the Southern Corridor through ambitious road The Director General also pointed out that, domestic construction projects but more efforts are needed to tourism was almost non-existent with very few locals make the world aware of the south and encourage visiting the country’s attractions and admitted that tourists to sample the Western and Southern the high costs of travel and hotel accommodation attractions of Tanzania,” maintained the TANAPA hampered the growth of this segment adding that Director General. TANAPA was working to remedy the situation.

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS IN PICTURE News in Picture

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS IN PICTURE

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS Let us Plan Together!

By Ellen Koppa

hen it comes to sustainable conservation of protected areas, conservationists will Wsuggest and talk about land-use planning, zoning and the establishment of buffer zones. These methods are very useful but protected area managers Ellen Koppa have no authority to implement them.They can only DGYLVHRULQÀXHQFHWKHLUDGRSWLRQ/LNHZLVHWKHVH methods rarely work in places where protected areas 7KH¿UVWVWDNHKROGHUV¶ZRUNVKRSIRUUHYLHZLQJWKH are under a lot of pressure from increasing human Lake Manyara National Park GMP was held in Karatu settlements and activities as a result of growing RQWK-DQXDU\ZKHUHVWDNHKROGHUVSDUWLFLSDWHG populations around them. Since protected area That of Arusha National Park was held on 28th managers are usually restrained from intervening in February at the Golden Rose Hotel in Arusha with such areas, they need to form alliances with those 62 participants. In the workshops, participants were who can. invited to discuss, evaluate and suggest solutions to issues and problems raised by stakeholders during Earlier this year, TANAPA held two stakeholders’ reconnaissance surveys conducted by TANAPA workshops bringing together scientists, Planners. conservationists, tourism industry partners, Government authorities and park neighbours to Issues of concern addressed in the workshops can participate in reviewing the General Management be grouped as those pertaining to the conservation Plans (GMPs) of Lake Manyara and Arusha National of the parks’ resources; the protection of parks’ Parks. Simply, a GMP is a document that sets forth exceptional resource values and provision of the basic management and development philosophy outstanding tourism services. Workshop participants of the park and provides the strategies for solving also discussed about improving relations and SUREOHPV DQG DFKLHYLQJ LGHQWL¿HG PDQDJHPHQW EHQH¿WVKDULQJEHWZHHQWKHSDUNDQGLWVQHLJKERXUV objectives over a 10 year period after which it because after all; Neighbours are much more likely is subject to review. Stakeholders are involved to help protected areas if protected areas help their throughout the preparation of this document. neighbors.

The GMP preparation process is summarized in the When it comes to sustainable conservation, there are following illustration: no easy solutions to problems posed by threats to conservation. However, there are innovative solutions TANAPA GMP Planning Process worth sharing. One way of sharing is through holding GMP Preparation Intent ( N ew or R evision) workshops where in-depth experiences and ideas can be shared and exchanged. We thank all stakeholders Reconnaisance & Resource Base Inventory who participated in the Lake Manyara and Arusha VW6WDNHKROGHUV·:RUNVKRS National Park GMP review stakeholders’ workshops and we welcome them again in the 2nd workshops 7HFKQLFDO:RUNLQJ*URXSV ZKHUH WKH ¿QDO *03 GUDIW ZLOO EH SUHVHQWHG WR Management Plan Compilation respective park stakeholders before submitting the same to the TANAPA Management and Board of QG6WDNHKROGHUV·:RUNVKRS 3UHVHQWDWLRQRIWKH)LQDO'UDIW3ODQ Trustees for approval. $SSURYDOE\7$1$3$0DQDJHPHQWDQG%RDUGRI7UXVWHHV Come one, come all and let us plan our national Management Plan Implementation and Monitoring heritage together!

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS News in Brief

Cleanliness Awareness Campaign TANAPA bids farewell to its at Kilimanjaro National Park retired Senior Management Staff

Tanzania National Parks organized TANAPA recently bid farewell to its Cleanliness Awareness Program at Mount retiring Senior Management Team members Kilimanjaro from 25th May, 2012 to 04th during the Master Workers Council held in -XQH 7KH SXUSRVH RI WKH FDPSDLJQ Morogoro recently. The retirees include the was to involve local people living around Mt. former Director of Human Resources and Kilimanjaro in cleaning the mountain before Administration Mr. Adamson Kariwa, the Acting Director of Resources Conservation and WKHFRPLQJRIWKHQHZWRXULVPVHDVRQLQ-XQH (FRORJLFDO 0RQLWRULQJ 0U -XVWLQ +DQGR DQG Moreover, the campaign was meant to offer WKH IRUPHU &KLHI 9HWHULQDU\2I¿FHU 'U 7LWXV conservation education to the local people Kamani Mlengeya. especially on how to improve the mountain cleanliness system of Trash In Trash Out Kariwa and Hando whom served TANAPA “TITO” so as to have more success on it. for 20 and 35 years respectively retired after reaching their compulsory retirement age while The campaign involved cleanliness on all six Dr. Mlengeya who served for 12 years retired routes which include Marangu; Machame; because he was recently elected Member of Umbwe; Rongai; Mweka and Londorosi. Parliament for Busega Constituency. Local people were the ones who participated fully in the campaign and they offered maximum support and pledged to continue doing so as this will now be an annual event.

Dr. Titus Kamani Mr. Adamson 0U-XVWLQ+DQGR 7th World Ranger 0OHQJH\D Kariwa Congress in Arusha rusha will this year host the 7th World Rangers Congress which the world to get together and share their will be held at Ngurdoto Mountain A experiences, hear about each other’s successes Lodge, near Arusha in Tanzania from 4th to 9th November, 2012. Hosting this and challenges, and to learn from each other. international event is not only an honour These meetings have, in the past, also helped to for Africa and Tanzania in particular but inspire many rangers to continue with the hard it will allow for local conservationists and work they are doing and in some cases spurred rangers to showcase the work being done someone to do more than they did before. in the Region. Lasting partnerships may also be formed in this way. Past World Rangers Congresses have been held in Poland (1995); Costa Rica (1997); South World Rangers Congresses provide the Africa (2000); Australia (2003); Scotland opportunity for rangers from around (2006) and Bolivia (2009).

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First Pan-African Conference on Sustainable Tourism Management set for Arusha

At the gracious invitation of the Government chain. Furthermore, new partnerships and of the United Republic of Tanzania, the World business models shall impulse re-engineering Tourism Organization is organizing the First of park management structures in order to Pan-African Conference on Sustainable PD[LPL]HWKHHFRQRPLFVDQGVRFLDOEHQH¿WV Tourism Management in National Parks to the local communities. and Protected Areas: Challenges and Opportunities in Arusha from 15th to 19th October, 2012.

The conference aims to encourage professional approach to better position “park tourism” as one of the core components of overall national park management in Africa and to acquire an overview of the current challenges in terms of demand and supply

TANAPA’s Best workers visit Botswana and Namibia TANAPA’s 2012 Best Workers were lucky to visit Namibia and Botswana for a study tour which took them eleven days of remarkable memories. The delegation which comprised of Best Workers from all the National Parks under the guidance of a member of the Board of Trustees Madam Ruth Mollel was able to visit some tourist attractions and be able to have a different experience on how they are conserving their protected areas.

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R NEWS TANAPA Wardens attend Junior Policing Management and Skills Training

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By TT Correspondent which has noted an increase of poaching incidences recently. anzania National Parks has started working closely with the Tanzania Police Force in a Director General of TANAPA Mr. Allan Kijazi Tmove to jointly deal with the poaching crisis said that the training will improve the protection by giving wardens military skills. of natural resources and wildlife in the parks. “We believe that the skills acquired here will help you to A total of 27 wardens from various National FRPEDWSRDFKLQJFULVLVHI¿FLHQWO\DQGHIIHFWLYHO\´ 3DUNV ZHUH UHFHQWO\ SDVVHG RXW LQ WKH -XQLRU said Kijazi during the pass out parade recently. Policing Management and Skills Course at He said the advancement in technology is a Kidatu Police College in Morogoro. During the challenge to conservationists as poachers also move course, the wardens were able to learn various with technology in their acts and therefore a need skills such as Map Reading; Endurance; Human to work together with other stakeholders like the Rights and Social Relations; Basic Criminal Police Force is not a choice but a must in order Investigation; Basic Criminal Procedure and Basic to get rid of the crisis which has created a notable Law of Evidence. Other subjects include Drills; concern worldwide. Communication Skills; Disaster Management and Environmental Protection; Auxiliary Police Duties On her part, the Chief of Training in the Tanzanian and Administration; Intelligence Skills and Weapon Police Force, Senior Assistant Commissioner of training Police Alice Mapunda said that the Police Force will continue working with TANAPA and offer its The training which took them four months is a step maximum support including training of its rangers forward by TANAPA in dealing with the problem so as to tackle the poaching crisis in the parks.

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R FEATURES

Times and tides for the lake inspire Manyara National Park

The Ecologist of Lake Manyara National Park, Ms. YUSTINA ANDREW KIWANGO has been serving in her position in the area for the past three years. She describes the timeline for the reserved area, which started out in research activities. She throws some light on the… Yustina Kiwango

1960s: Animals against people but also to see whether their astounding population could The ecologist reveals that Lake Manyara National Park is cause adverse effect to other animals in the tiny park. among the earliest conserved areas in the country having been established in 1960, a year before Tanganyika 1970s: People against animals (Tanzania Mainland) attained its independence. Yustina explains that the park, when it started it served mostly as ,QWKHVWKHVFLHQWL¿FVWXGLHVDURXQG/DNH0DQ\DUD a botany and zoological research precinct. suddenly changed with new developments. The number of elephants was falling but another problem was rising. In her own words: “Lake Manyara is probably the most The human population in areas surrounding the park was studied National Park after Serengeti and it started with growing and with it, the farms and other forms of human experts conducting researches on elephants and buffaloes activities, some being quite destructive to the ecology. GXULQJWKHHDUO\VZKHQWKH-XPERVZHUHUHSRUWHGWR have been increasingly aggressive and destructive to both It was realized that the animal corridors (passages) had the neighbouring farms and households”. been invaded by people or their related human activities and these important natural wildlife strips were on the The early researches were meant to address challenges verge of disappearing. The badly affected areas were arising from the then huge herds of buffaloes and wildlife passages that crossed through the Mbulu-Mbulu elephants that were becoming a menace to the surrounding and Mto-wa-Mbu areas of Karatu and Monduli districts, communities. Coincidentally, during harvest times in respectively. local farms it was also the period that the jumbos and buffaloes would be getting out of the park heading to It is from such studies that the government learned other destinations and their paths used to cut across farms that huge mammals like elephants and buffaloes had and households with disastrous consequences. WHUULWRULHVWKDWZHQWEH\RQGWKHRI¿FLDOSDUNERUGHUOLQHV As the result from expert suggestions, the Marang’ forest The huge numbers of the large mammals prompted more was annexed in 2009 and included in the Lake Manyara VWXGLHVQRWRQO\WR¿QGZD\VRIVROYLQJDQLPDOKXPDQ FRQÀLFWVWKDWUHVXOWHGIURPWKHHOHSKDQWVVSUHDGLQJDIDU Continues on Page 25 ...

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3DUN$OVRWKHRULJLQDOZLOGOLIHSDVVDJHVZHUHLGHQWL¿HG FDVHVRIWKHODNHGU\LQJXSUHSODFHGÀRRGVDWDOPRVWWKH and laws and regulations formulated to protect them from same rate. The lake has been losing 90 percent of its human invasions. waters every two years with siltation bogging its depth by up to 2 metres. 1980s: Water against animals and people New researches have started to see why the lake keeps Floods suddenly became a new problem. Affecting drying with regular occurrences. So far early results have both people and wildlife as the lake used to swell and VKRZQWKDWWKHODNHEDVLQKDVEHHQÀDWWHQHGRXWE\PXG submerge most parts of the park as well as surrounding DQGGHEULVGHSRVLWVZKLFKPHDQVLIWKHZDWHUÀRZDQG farms and residential areas. UDLQIDOOUHVXPHWKHIXWXUHÀRRGVZLOOFDXVHPRUHGLVDVWHUV than in the past. $FWXDOO\ ÀRRGV XVHG WR EH D UHFXUULQJ SKHQRPHQRQ DW Lake Manyara and it was something that kept being The importance of the park experienced after every two or three years since the 1960s but the problem escalated in the 1980s. There were times Lake Manyara National Park with an area of not more that helicopters had to be used to airlift people who were than 330 square kilometres, with two-thirds of that being WUDSSHGLQWKHÀRRGHGDUHDV the lake itself, adds up to the list of Tanzania’s small parks. 5HVHDUFKHVZHUHDJDLQFRQGXFWHGWRDGGUHVVWKHÀRRGV problem and experts advised the starting of irrigation Like its name, the park’s existence solely depends on farming. Plots were established around Mto-wa-Mbu /DNH 0DQ\DUD 7KH EHDXWLIXO QDWXUH WKH YDULHG ÀRUD and local residents started working on the new type of and the exiting fauna make Lake Manyara National DJULFXOWXUH,WZDVDGYLVHGWKDWWRKHOSUHGXFHZDWHUÀRZV Park an obvious place to spend a day or so on the way to into the Lake from the rivers that emptied there, farmers Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Lake Manyara National Park, should tap the water from the rivers and then use it for together with its corresponding water body is situated at irrigation. the bottom of the Great Rift Valley, which stretches all WKHZD\IURP-RUGDQLQWKH0LGGOH(DVWWR0R]DPELTXH Currently: Drought against survival and it has an intriguing ecology and a greatly varied bird life, perfect for bird watching. In the past the lake reportedly used to be deep enough to drown an adult human being, but now a toddler can crawl There are 380 bird species that have been registered, and with ease across its water surface. For the past 200 years, the lake depth had averaged at six metres but of late the DWPRVWWLPHVRIWKH\HDUWKRXVDQGVRIÀDPLQJRHVVHWWOH depth has been getting shallow, inching just 0.3 metres, down, feeding on algae as a pink ribbon along the lake. which is over 200 times shallower than the original depth. The vegetation is also very unique, with groundwater The reduction of over 99.5 percent of the lake’s water IRUHVWZLWKKLJK¿JDQGPDKRJDQ\WUHHVDFDFLDIRUHVW depth was last recorded in 1923 when a major drought marsh area and grassland, as well as the hot springs in the spell hit most parts of East and Central Africa causing a south. The park is especially famous for its tree climbing number of rivers and lakes to dry up. lions. Except from the Ruwenzori Park in Uganda, the lions in Lake Manyara are the only ones who have The decreasing depth has also been corresponding with this peculiar behaviour inherited from generation to its fast shrinking water surface area. Manyara cannot dry generation. Zoologists believe that they have attributed by 100 percent because a number of underground water WKLV KDELW WR DYRLG WKH ELWLQJ ÀLHV DQG WKH KHDW RQ WKH streams and rivers help to feed the lake. In recent years ground.

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R FEATURES Importance of wildebeests for Serengeti Ecology

The Park’s Ecologist, Dr. JAMES WAKIBARA, in this article explains why the annual spectacular Wildebeest Migration, which was once termed as the World’s 10th Natural Travel wonder, also helps to save the ‘Endless Plains’ ecology from climatic destruction. 'U-DPHV:DNLEDUD

The size This balancing of natural vegetation is very important to the Serengeti ecology because if not reduced the grass in 7KH 6HUHQJHWL ZDV WKH ¿UVW HYHU 1DWLRQDO 3DUN WR EH WKHSODLQVFDQLJQLWHEXVK¿UHVWKDWLQWXUQPD\UD]HGRZQ established in Tanzania. It is also the most popular and and destroy trees and shrubs; this way, the wildebeests measuring 14,763 square kilometers. It is the second KHOSWRNHHSRXW¿UHRXWEUHDNV largest in the country after Ruaha National Park. Also, the fact that wildebeests keep migrating from one Wildebeests are the keystone species for Serengeti both location to another, they assist in feeding meat-eating in terms of the park ecology and its tourism trademark. species like leopards, lions and hyenas en-route and There are more than 1.3 million wildebeests in Serengeti crocodiles when crossing rivers, thus helping to reduce and this population has remained within that range other aggressive behaviours from the carnivorous animals. So you can see that the ecology of Serengeti relies solely for over 40 years. Now, when it comes to ecology, the on the existence of the migratory wildebeests. number of animals in relation to the corresponding eco- system is an important denominating factor. The trademark migration

The number Animal migration is nothing new. They take place in many parts of the world. There are the migratory rats By comparison to other ungulates, the Serengeti has just RI 1RUZD\ DQG WKH 5XVVLDQ ELUGV WKDW À\ WR DV IDU DV 400,000 Thomson Gazelles and 200,000 Zebras. Their Serengeti and South Africa and then back to Russia. ratio compared to the wildebeest leaves a large gap. Wildebeests eat grass in the plains and once they have However, when it comes to the migration of large inland exhausted one part of the park they move into another, mammals then this is where Serengeti shines as being the leaving the grass in the original patch to start growing only place in the world where such spectacular happening again. can be experienced.

With over 1.3 ungulates feeding on the grass in the plain In the case of Serengeti, the entire migration cycle may at almost the same time, the whole movement resembles cover more than 1,000 kilometres in total, taking the a giant, live, nature operated mowing machine tending entire year. This movement is mainly driven by the quest the vast 14,763 square kilometres of the park. for green pastures and drinking water.

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R FEATURES Each year around the same time the great wildebeest As animals have been living in the plains for millions of migration begins from February at the Naabi plains in years, we are sure they have their own ways of dealing the southern parts of Serengeti within the Ngorongoro with drought, food and water shortages should these Conservation Area. They usually gather there from occur. -DQXDU\WR0DUFKZKHQWKHFDOYLQJVHDVRQEHJLQVEHFDXVH the ground in the area is full of phosphorous and calcium There are animals that drink from the dew moistures which are important for lactation. in the early morning hours thus managing to survive the drought. Even in deserts there are animals who February marks the start of this great migration, coming manage to survive the condition. Others retain their body shortly before the long rainy season when the wildebeest water contents by neither perspiring nor urinating. Our spend their time grazing and giving birth to nearly responsibility is to ensure that nothing interferes with 500,000 calves within a two to three-week period. nature.

7KHLU MRXUQH\ ODWHU ¿QGV WKHP LQ WKH .HQ\D¶V 0DDVDL Soil depth is shallow, and gets submerged during rainy Mara by August, where they may remain for just a season but dries up fast after the precipitation has abated. month before beginning another ‘safari’ back between Serengeti thus becomes very dry during drought. We are September and October, this time heading to the East of not worried with the short time drought spell because we Serengeti Park. normally study long-time effects spawning ten to twenty years. In December they will be in the south-eastern parts from where the nearly two million herbivores start their travel Achievements in 50 years from the northern hills toward the southern plains in pursuit of rains and in preparation for another round of Retaining most of the wildlife species especially the breeding. wildebeests is one of the remarkable successes for our park. For over four decades the wildebeest population has Some 250,000 wildebeest die during the journey from remained constant. We conduct census every two years Tanzania to Maasai Mara Reserve in lower Kenya, a total to ensure that the number is maintained. It is a positive of 1,000 kilometres. Death is usually from thirst, hunger, thing for the park because if the animals disappear or exhaustion, or predators’ attacks. their number shrinks, the vegetation control will not take place. When water scarcity hits the plains More bushes will mushroom in the park and with them Mara, which originates from Kenya, is the only river with VZDUPVRIWVHWVHÀLHVQRWWRPHQWLRQUHJXODUEXVK¿UHVDQG FRQVWDQWÀRZRIZDWHUWKURXJKRXWWKH\HDU7KHRWKHUV the annihilation of carnivores that feed on the ungulates. are Grumeti and Mbalageti that are seasonal. Even when We are working to replenish the Rhino population in the we detect shortage of water or experience drought spells park even though they have little effect on the Serengeti in the Serengeti we never interfere because anything ecology, they are just charismatic species. outside nature will disrupt the area’s ecology.

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R FEATURES The Arusha Manifesto: where did it come from! Pascal Shelutete

By Pascal Shelutete The Symposium came out with the world famous Arusha Manifesto which expresses in clear terms the attitude Arusha Manifesto is very famous to most of the host Government of Tanganyika toward the conservationists in the country. However, most of us conservation and development of its wildlife resources. It do not know exactly what it means and we have even epitomizes also the tone of the discussions throughout the confused it with the Arusha Declaration which was Pan-African symposium on the Conservation of Nature actually established in 1967, almost six years after the and Natural Resources in Modern African States, which Arusha Manifesto in 1961. This article, amongst other constituted the second stage of International Union for issues, analyzes what exactly is the Arusha Manifesto Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). so that we can understand it eloquently. The Arusha Smposium was attended by 139 participants from 21 African and 6 Non-African countries, and 5 “The survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern international organizations, not counting the Commission to all of us in Africa. These Wild creatures amid the wild for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the places they inhabit are not only important as a source Sahara and IUCN who were jointly responsible for the of wonder and inspiration but are an integral part of preparation of the Conference. Among the participants our natural resources and of our future livelihood and were 15 “fellows” from the Central African Republic, well-being. Chad, Dahomey, Kenya, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Togo and Uganda. Funds for this “ In accepting the trusteeship of our wildlife, We purpose had been offered by the American Conservation solemnly declare that we will do everything in our Association, the Deutsche Afrika-Gesellsehaft, the power to make sure that our children’s grandchildren Fauna Preservation Society, the Governments of Sweden will be able to enjoy this rich and precious inheritance. and Switzerland, and by the United Nations Educational, 6FLHQWL¿FDQG&XOWXUDO2UJDQL]DWLRQ 81(6&2 “The conservation of wildlife and wild places calls for specialist knowledge, trained manpower and money and Among the messages of interest and good wishes for eve look to other nations to co-operate in this important success that were sent to Arusha were those from Prince task - the success or failure of which not only affects Bernhard of the Netherlands and Prince Philip, Duke of the continent of Africa but the rest of the world as well. Edinburgh.

These words were part of the speech delivered by the then In his opening address, Sir Richard Turnbull, then 3ULPH0LQLVWHURI7DQJDQ\LND0ZDOLPX-XOLXV1\HUHUH *RYHUQRU RI 7DQJDQ\LND ZKR FRPELQHV ¿UVWKDQG in September, 1961 (three months before Tanganyika knowledge of the general deterioration of natural got independence in December, 1961) during the resources with considerable experience of the human and International Wildlife Symposium, held at Arusha in the social problems of a modem African state, spoke in terms then Tanganyika from 5th to 12th September, 1961, has of the disasters which will inevitably descend on the been justly described as the most important gathering of people of a country if its natural renewable resources are conservationists and ecologists ever held in Africa. not conserved. He stressed the fact that the preservation

Wildbeest Migration in the Serengeti plains

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*LUUDIIHFURVVLQJLQWKH6HUHQJHWLSODLQV7$1$3$KDVPDLQWDLQHGWKHQDWXUHRIWKH6HUHQJHWLHFRV\VWHPLQWKHSDVW \HDUV of wild animals, an undoubtedly great national asset, which constituted a real threat to the natural resources of was dependent upon one overriding consideration, the Africa. He pledged FAO’s full co-operation and support preservation of the habitat. in assisting governments to develop a rational approach to integrating the conservation and development of wildlife He acknowledged that man and his domestic animals resources into their programs of economic expansion. were multiplying unchecked to bring about their own ultimate destruction by ruining forever the land they A. Gille, of UNESCO, spoke in similar terms, giving lived on. And after outlining the wildlife policy of the special emphasis to the need for general education in Government of Tanganyika and the various problems WKHSULQFLSOHVRIFRQVHUYDWLRQDVDEDVLVIRULQWHQVL¿HG which this raised, he summarized the situation under rational use of Africa’s natural renewable resources if three main considerations: the continent was to take its proper place in international affairs. Firstly; wildlife and wild nature were an undoubted source of revenue needed for social services, and must The Economic Commission for Africa of the United therefore be rationally “exploited” Nations (ECA) was also represented, and it was pointed out that the organization was already planning to conduct Secondly; where this was the best form of land use; public some research into the economics of tourism, based opinion, whose support was essential, must be convinced essentially on wildlife, in East Africa. of the value of this heritage; It was clear also that many nongovernmental Thirdly; international aid would be needed if the world in RUJDQL]DWLRQVVXFKDVWKH,QWHUQDWLRQDO8QLRQRI2I¿FLDO general wished to see Africa’s unique fauna preserved for Travel Organizations (IUOTO), the Conseil international WKHEHQH¿WRIWKHSHRSOHRI$IULFD de la chasse (CIC), the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) and the Fauna Preservation Society, The joint organization of the meeting, under the co- were anxious to assist. And there were indications also of sponsorship of FAO and UNESCO, boded well for such bilateral and private aid such as that given by the Frankfurt LQWHUQDWLRQDOVXSSRUW-6$QQDQRI)$2GUHZDWWHQWLRQ Zoological Society which was putting up $5,600 for a during the inaugural session to the destruction of wildlife, hostel for visiting children in the Serengeti Park. coupled with inadequately planned land-use practices, Continues on Page 30 ...

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Continued from Page 29 ... aim at avoiding the occupation by agricultural and pastoral communities of land unsuited for such use In the light of such numerous and diverse offers of in the long term, and on the need for greater attention WHFKQLFDO DQG ¿QDQFLDO KHOS WKH FRQIHUHQFH VWUHVVHG to the economic aspects of the development of natural the overriding need for ensuring that such necessary resources. Finally, the wish was expressed that countries assistance be channeled in such a way as to avoid wasteful assist in creating throughout Africa a type collection of duplication, and thus encourage outside aid. It therefore QDWXUDOKDELWDWVDQGWKDWDTXDOL¿HGVFLHQWL¿FDXWKRULW\ warmly commended the implications of Stage III of be consulted on its establishment and on the research to IUCN’s African Special Project as an essential follow-up be undertaken within each area. to the conference and the change of attitude which it has so clearly brought out. As Professor Baer, President of IUCN, said during the inaugural session, “Man in the past, out of sheer The establishment of a team of two consultants, comprising ignorance or greed, has wastefully destroyed plant and this Stage III, was considered as the only known effective animal life, forgetting that neither he nor his children’s means whereby situations and needs in Africa could be children can ever become completely independent of their analyzed and assessed, priority determined, and help environment, and overlooking the possible contribution from outside adequately and impartially channeled. that these now extinct forms might have made to his own welfare.” The members of the team were Thane Riney, senior Fulbright fellow who had long been working in east The conference was a milestone in the history of the and central Africa on wildlife management problems, development of an awareness of the need for conservation and Peter Hill, previously manager of the experimental of nature in Africa. In the words of Professor Théodore station attached to the Department of Agriculture of the 0RQRG 3UHVLGHQW RI WKH 6FLHQWL¿F &RXQFLO IRU $IULFD University of Ghana. This team would be ready to begin South of the Sahara (CSA) and a member of the work in Africa at the beginning of 1962, and its activities Executive Board of IUCN, Tanganyika has every reason were planned in the light of requests for guidance which to be proud of the part she played in this big common were already coming in to IUCN’s headquarters at effort, in hastening the day when Africa would be the Morges. shining example to the world of a continent which, fully aware of the incomparable, irreplaceable value of Other recommendations and wishes formulated by the its natural wealth, has devised ways of wise husbandry, conference were on the subject of international aid for avoiding unneeded destruction and achieving a sense of education and training in conservation at all levels; on interrelationship between man and his environment in the land-use policies which should, among other objectives, interests of its own peoples and of mankind in general.

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TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 T N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R FEATURES

Arusha National Park : A Water reservoir

The Ecologist at Arusha National Park, Ms GLADYS NG’UMBI explains why the Arusha National Park (ANAPA) is a park that makes it possible for Arusha City to get its food and water and Tanzania to have electricity power. 0V*ODG\V1J¶XPEL

ach park in Tanzania has a unique factor and for Tanzania National Parks later saw the importance of the Arusha National Park, which has Mount Meru, bringing under the protection of Arusha National Park, ETanzania’s second highest peak at its epicentre, the natural resources especially neighbouring forests is where all the water being consumed in Arusha city that had been badly affected by irresponsible human originates. activities. Park expansions took place in 1962, two years after the establishment of ANAPA and a year after Also Meru District, especially parts on the windward side independence, then in 1964 and later in 1967. of the 4,566 metre high mountain, is considered among the dependable bread baskets in the Northern Zone of In 2005 again the Meru and Usa forest estates were Tanzania and much of its agricultural activities depend placed under the jurisdiction of Arusha National Park in on the availability of water cascading from the protected effort to protect water catchment areas and river sources mountain and forest reserves making up ANAPA. that were found there.

)UHVK FXW ÀRZHUV YHJHWDEOHV DQG IUXLWV JURZQ LQ At the moment special research programmes are being commercial farms dotting the Meru landscape, produce undertaken to study the state of natural rivers, streams practically all of the Tanzania’s horticultural exports and and underground water catchments found in the forests, these again rely on irrigation water tapped from rivers and as well as the quality and quantity of the water. stream water gushing under the slopes of Mount Meru, whose sources are well protected under the conservation Arusha National Park is small but varying with mandate of the Arusha National Park management. spectacular landscapes including the Mountain itself, WKH0HUX&UDWHUZKLFKLVWKHVRXUFHIRUWKH-HNXNXPLD The well-preserved mountain and the forest reserves also River; the Ngurdoto Crater, vast lush-green grasslands, a supply water to neighbouring towns and regions, which number of shallow alkaline Momella Lakes in the north- makes the Arusha National Park not only important to east and huge trees in its tropical forest cover. wildlife, natural resources and tourism, but also a lifeline for people and most parts of Arusha Region and the Despite the small size of the park, common animals country’s agriculture sector. include giraffe, buffalo, zebra, warthog, the black-and- ZKLWH &ROREXVPRQNH\ WKH EOXH PRQNH\ ÀDPLQJRV Arusha National Park is an important component in the and even the endangered wild dogs can occasionally be country’s hydroelectricity production because rivers spotted in hunting packs. ÀRZLQJ IURP WKH SDUN MRLQ ZLWK WKH 3DQJDQL 5LYHU forming the Pangani water current and the resulting falls African Elephants are present, but rarely seen. Similarly from which electricity is generated. That water is also leopard, but there are no lions in the park and the rhino XVHGE\ERWKWKHÀRUDDQGIDXQDLQWKHSDUN VSHFLHV WKDW ZHUH RQFH ¿OPHG DWWDFNLQJ WUXFNV LQ WKH ¿OPµ+DWDUL¶ZKLFKZDV¿OPHGLQWKHSDUNVWDUULQJ We constantly test the park’s water samples from rivers, +ROO\ZRRGOHJHQG-RKQ:D\QHKDYHORQJGLVDSSHDUHG waterfalls and lakes to determine its quality because from ANAPA. water is the most important component of Arusha National Park supporting the area’s vast biodiversity.

The park, established in 1960, a year before independence, then measuring only 137 square kilometers is home WR ZDWHU ELUGV OLNH ÀDPLQJRHV DQG PDNRD duck (bata makoa) and many more others.

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R EXPERIENCE FROM THE FIELD Minja: The man who guided ‘Uhuru Torch’ bearer onto Kilimanjaro

5HWLUHG 7DQ]DQLD 3HRSOH¶V 'HIHQFH )RUFHV 73') DUP\ RI¿FHU WKH ODWH /LHWQHQDQW $OH[DQGHU 1\LUHQGD LV credited with erecting the Uhuru Torch on top of Mt Kilimanjaro on the eve of the country’s independence 50 years ago. But there is another unsung hero, EMMANUEL PETRO MINJA, who makes the other side of the story, who actually carried the torch up the mountain on December 9, 1961.

By Pascal Shelutete to be a nephew to yet another legendary name in Mount .LOLPDQMDUR¶VKLVWRU\-RKQ/DXZR hile Lieutenant Alex Nyirenda, who died aged 71 remains one of Tanzania’s most -RKQ

“I still have the scars where the heavy torch bruised my Lauwo was appointed by the Mangi (Chagga chief) to ribs as I struggled to climb with it over 5000 metres onto be Hans Meyer’s guide when the two foreigners landed the peak,” remarks Minja. in the Northern Tanzanian region of Kilimanjaro. Lauwo was also born and lived his entire life in Marangu Village. It was Lauwo again who recruited Minja to be his assistant In those days, according to the 81-year-old Minja, there when the latter was looking for a job; “My uncle gave were no proper routes leading up the mountain, just me a 5-kilo luggage to take to the top of Kilimanjaro, narrow, unkempt paths and at the particular time it had telling me ‘if I made it to the top without problem then he rained heavily making the ground wet and slippery. would hire me as his assistant’,” he recalls. Apparently Minja passed the test and since then he served as porter 0LQMD H[SODLQV WKDW 0ZDOLPX -XOLXV 1\HUHUH KHOG D on Kilimanjaro. meeting with all the guides at Kilimanjaro and asked, “Who is that brave guide I have been hearing about?” ³-RKQ RSHUDWHG IURP .LER +RWHO ZKLFK XVHG WR EH WKH And the guide in question happened to be ‘Emmanuel RI¿FLDOEDVHEXWDVPRUHSRUWHUVFRQWLQXHGWREHUHFUXLWHG Petro Minja.’ and all opting to operate from Kibo, I decided to change base and started working from Marangu Hotel,” said %RUQRQ-XO\0LQMDRQO\PDQDJHGWRVFKRRO Minja. up to Standard Six. “In the old days children from poor families never made it to secondary level and in fact Come 1961 and Tanganyika got its independence from among the fruits of independence is that nowadays WKH%ULWLVK7KHQHZJRYHUQPHQWXQGHU0ZDOLPX-XOLXV education can be attained by everybody whether rich or 1\HUHUH GHFLGHG WR HUHFW ERWK WKH QHZ QDWLRQ¶V ÀDJ poor,” he said. and the Freedom (Uhuru) Torch on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to mark the occasion. Mwalimu himself led 'URSSLQJRXWRIVFKRROPHDQWKHKDGWR¿QGDMREDQG a delegation to Moshi. after months of loitering his uncle came to his rescue; ³0U -RKQ /DXZR ZDV DQ H[SHUW PRXQWDLQ JXLGH DQG D brother to my mother. Now coincidentally, Minja happens “I was chosen to carry the torch onto the Mountain Summit with clear instructions from Nyerere himself,” said Minja.

“I was chosen to carry the torch What very few people know is that taking the Torch to onto the Mountain Summit with the top of Africa’s highest peak was also meant to test clear instructions from Nyerere Tanganyika’s independence because according to Minja Nyerere had stated; “Carry this Torch up there, if you slip himself,” and fall and the torch gets broken then it will mean our independence is either immature or dubious!”

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Minja then realized the great responsibility placed on his ³3HRSOHXVHGWR¿JKWHDFKRWKHUVRPHWLPHVIRUQRJRRG shoulders; “I spent the night praying to God that instead reason, insults were the order of the day and arrogance of leting the Torch to be broken at least my legs should ¿OOHGWKHDWPRVSKHUH´KHVDLG³1RZDGD\VSHRSOHKDYH break in case of a fall,” he recalls. mellowed, they respect each other, no cases of violence and there has never been a more peaceful state than The ascent to the summit of the mountain was rough and Tanzania.” tough as the path was wet, muddy and slippery and the torch kept getting heavier, unpredictable and potentially And, of course, unlike his days of segregation that dangerous in the falling rain. Minja recalls struggling hindered him from pursuing further studies, nowadays even poor people can access not only secondary level holding it in place as he balanced his way to the summit. but the highest institutions of learning, thanks to the And in the night of Saturday, December 9, 1961 the torch country’s independence. arrived safely on top of Kilimanjaro; “We had a walkie- talkie which started to count down minutes to midnight Things have also changed on the mountain itself, trekking and a voice from the machine told us; “Celebrate now it routes have been well paved, the porters’ quarters is midnight and the country is free!” modernized with gas stoves, good beds and proper toilet facilities; “In the past we used to sleep on the grass Cheers followed as Lieutenant Nyirenda hoisted both the DQG FRRNHG XVLQJ ¿UHZRRG´ VDLG 0LQMD +H ODXGHG WRUFKDQGQDWLRQDOÀDJRQWKHSHDNRI0RXQW.LOLPDQMDUR the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) for improving signaling a new dawn, a new country and new day. services for both the climbers, guides and porters.

Many things have come and passed since that historical But Minja (81), who makes the other side of the story, night. Minja recalls that before independence Tanganyika can he still make it to the top? “I will be among the 200 was a country of vulgar, uncivilized people who were people who are to trek to the summit to mark 50 years of harsh to each other and horrible to strangers. independence,” he vows.

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T TANAPA NEWSLETTER, July - September 2012 N A A N Z N I A T A S I O K N A L P A R Humours

Doctor Jokes

Patient: I’m in a hospital! Why am I in here? Doctor: You’ve had an accident involving a bus. Patient: What happened? 'RFWRU:HOO,¶YHJRWVRPHJRRGQHZVDQGVRPHEDGQHZV:KLFKZRXOG\RXOLNHWRKHDU¿UVW" 3DWLHQW*LYHPHWKHEDGQHZV¿UVW Doctor: Your legs were injured so badly that we had to amputate both of them. Patient: That’s terrible! What’s the good news? Doctor: There’s a guy in the next ward who made a very good offer on your slippers.

Nigerian Police

A Nigerian policeman arrested a man urinating at a place clearly marked ³'RQRWXULQDWHKHUH¿QH1´ The offender gives the policeman a N1000 note, The policeman turned around and said ‘urinate again, I don’t have change...’

Do Police Ofﬁcers Read The Bible?

8SRQEHLQJVWRSSHGE\DWUDI¿FRI¿FHURQD¿FWLWLRXVGULYLQJYLRODWLRQD3DVWRUVHQVLQJWURXEOHHYHQ when he knew he had committed no offence, yelled back: “I am a pastor not a thief”

7KHRI¿FHUUHSOLHG³3OHDVHOHDYHWKDWSDVWRUWKLQJ,QDQ\FDVHLI\RXDUHLQGHHGDSDVWRUWKHQ\RXPXVW have a Bible in your car. Bring it.” The Pastor speedily brought out his Bible to prove his honesty.”Please read Matthew 5:25-26 to me.” Said the police man.

Incredulously, Pastor opened to the recommended passage and read: “Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you RYHUWRDMXGJHDQGWKHMXGJHPD\KDQG\RXRYHUWRWKHRI¿FHUDQG\RXPD\EHWKURZQLQWRSULVRQ,WHOO you the truth; you will not get out until you have paid the last penny”

The perplexed man of God “QUIETLY” made an “offering” of some shillings to his newly found “preacher”. 7KH2I¿FHUFROOHFWHGKLV³%DR´DQGVDLGWRWKHSDVWRU³(QGRIVHUYLFHJR in peace and argue no more.”

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Chief Park Warden Chief Park Warden Chief Park Warden Serengeti National Park Gombe National Park Arusha National Park P.O.Box 3134 - ARUSHA P.O.Box 185 - KIGOMA P.O. Box 3134 - ARUSHA Tel: 028 2621515 [email protected] Tel: 2553995 Fax: 2553696/2553854 Fax: 028 26211672 [email protected] [email protected] Chief Park Warden [email protected] [email protected] Saanane Island [email protected] [email protected] P.O.Box 11775 - MWANZA Tel: 028-2540713 Chief Park Warden Chief Park Warden [email protected] Katavi National Park Tarangire National Park P.O.Box 89 P.O.Box 3134 - ARUSHA Chief Park Warden Mpanda Fax: 0252820352/213 Tel: 027 2531280/81 Fax: 2530246 Mkomazi National Park [email protected] [email protected] P.O.Box 41 [email protected] SAME [email protected] Chief Park Warden Lake Manyara National Park Chief Park Warden Chief Park Warden P.O.Box 12 - MTO WA MBU Rubondo Island National Park Saadani National Park Tel: 027 2539112 Fax: 2539271 P.O. Box 111, GEITA P.O.Box 133 [email protected] Ikome Gate Tel: 0282520720 Pangani [email protected] Mob: 0713340776 Chief Park Warden [email protected] [email protected] Kilimanjaro National Park P.O.Box 96 - MARANGU Chief Park Warden Chief Park Warden Tel: 2552756605/2 Fax: 2756606 Mahale Mountains National Park Kitulo National Park [email protected] P.O.Box 1374 - KIGOMA P.O.Box 1965 [email protected] or MBEYA Chief Park Warden [email protected] [email protected] Ruaha National Park

P.O.Box 369 - IRINGA Chief Park Warden H I Z A D T A A I I F F [email protected] Mikumi National Park H A P.O.Box 62 Chief Park Warden Mikumi – Morogoro

Udzungwa National Park Tel: 0232620498

T N A A P.O.Box 99 - MANG’ULA Fax: 0232620441 N Z N I A T A S I O K Tel: 0232620224 Fax: 0232620293 [email protected] N A L P A R [email protected] [email protected]

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