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Tsavo Conservation Area Management Plan 2008- 2018 Tsavo Conservation Area Management Plan 2008- 2018 www.kws.org This management plan was developed through a participatory planning process involving a cross section of Tsavo Conser- vation Area stakeholders, under the coor- dination of a Core Planning Team compris- ing representatives from Tsavo East, Tsavo West, and Chyulu Hills National Parks and KWS Headquarters. Co-financing for the planning process was provided by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Planning resource base information collec- tion, technical assistance and facilitation was carried out by Ian Games, M.E. Asso- ciates (Pvt) Ltd Additional planning inputs and alignment with the KWS Protected Areas Planning Framework was carried out by the Conser- vation Development Centre, Nairobi. Approval Page The Board of Trustees and the management of the Kenya Wildlife Service have approved the implementation of this management plan for the Tsavo Conservation Area. Mr Julius Kipng’etich Mr. Daniel Ndonye Director Chairman, Board of Trustees iii Foreword The Tsavo Conservation Area Management Plan is the second protected area plan to be produced according to KWS’ new Protected Areas Planning Framework, or PAPF, and is the culmination of the first phase of developing and rolling out the new planning framework. The development of the PAPF has been part and parcel of a wider process of institutional change and renewal that has been underway in KWS in the past few years, which has transformed KWS from an organisation mired in the past to a dynamic, confident institution leading the way in the management and conservation of Kenya’s remarkable and world-renowned natu- ral resources and wildlife. This transformation has come just in time, as our nation’s pro- tected areas face mounting pressures from growing human populations on their borders and from an enormous increase in demand for tourism within the parks. The Tsavo Conservation Area is the tourism flagship of KWS’ protected areas, and gener- ates a significant proportion of the revenues that KWS uses to finance other less visited but nonetheless conservation-critical parks and reserves, and also to underwrite the ongoing in- stitutional transformation process. It is vital that the TCA has a strong and forward-looking management plan in place to guide the management of the area in the years to come, and to ensure that the TCA offers a first-class tourism product and visitor experience alongside the conservation of the area’s outstanding wilderness characteristics and biodiversity. I am there- fore especially pleased that this new management plan has been completed in time to be approved and released under the auspices of the current KWS Board of Trustees whose tenure ends in December 2007, and who have done so much to support and guide the trans- formation process in KWS, and to champion the protected areas planning framework which has been at the heart of the rebirth of the organisation. KWS has come a long way in the last few years, as is demonstrated in the contents of the TCA management plan presented in the following pages. We are now on course to develop clear ecological and conservation targets for all our protected areas, and we have developed a way of prioritising the threats to these values and thereby guiding our management re- sponses. Through the management planning process, we have begun to build a strong part- nership with the tourism industry in identifying the optimal tourism product for a particular protected area, and in defining what needs to be put in place to deliver that product. We are firmly putting behind us the previous situation where KWS and the tourism industry would proceed along separate and sometimes divergent paths in a protected area, with very little communication or understanding of each others needs. Through the new PAPF-inspired community partnership programmes, we are also building a much stronger foundation for col- laboration and benefit sharing with our neighbours, upon whose support the conservation of the protected areas ultimately hinges. The TCA management plan is the latest example of the professional and systematic ap- proach that KWS is now spearheading in the management of our protected areas, but we anticipate further advances in the New Year as we apply the PAPF in several other priority protected areas, such as the Nairobi, Mount Kenya and Aberdares National Parks. The new plans, together with the TCA and MCA plans, will be a pivotal ingredient in our ongoing march to achieve ISO 9001:2000 certification, thereby setting the seal on KWS’ transforma- tion into a world-class conservation agency, and a highly respected Kenyan parastatal. iv Finally, I would like to say a special word of thanks to one of our longstanding partners in the conservation and management of the Tsavo Conservation Area, without whose steadfast support the TCA would not be what it is today – the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. I hope that this new management plan, which the DSWT helped to finance, is an appropriate testimonial to the fruitful partnership we have enjoyed over the years, and we look forward to joining forces with the Trust in the years to come in implementing the plan. Julius Kipng’etich CBS, EBS Director, KWS v Executive Summary This 10-year (2008-2018) management plan for the Tsavo Conservation Area (TCA) is the second KWS management plan piloting the new Protected Area Planning Framework (PAPF). The PAPF aims to ensure that all new KWS protected area management plans are developed according to a standardised process and have a similar structure. In line with the PAPF, the TCA plan has been developed in a highly participatory manner, incorporating and building on ideas from a broad cross-section of TCA stakeholders. The plan is designed to be a highly practical management tool supporting TCA management in carrying out their duties. Towards this end, the plan sets out strategic guidance on the goals (the purpose statements and subsidiary objectives) towards which management is working, and a series of straightforward prescriptions and management actions that need to be implemented in order to achieve these aims. In addition, the TCA plan structure has been developed to be as simple as possible, and as such, easily understood by stakeholders and implemented by TCA management. At the heart of the plan is the TCA zonation scheme and the five management programmes , each of which cover an essential aspect of PA management. These five programmes are: Ecological Management Programme Tourism Development and Management Programme Community Partnership and Conservation Education Programme Security Programme Protected Area Operations Programme Each programme contains a programme purpose statement that sets out the overall goal management is working towards, and a series of management objectives designed to achieve this purpose. Under each objective are a series of discrete management actions that will be implemented during the 10-year lifespan of this plan, and which will result in the achievement of their overarching objective. Each of the management programmes is com- pleted by a 3-year Activity Plan. These plans provide the vital link between the manage- ment plan’s 10-year strategic outlook, and the day-to-day management operations in the TCA. Each plan breaks down the individual management actions to be completed in the first three years of the plan implementation period into a series of tangible management activities, which in turn provides the basis for annual operational planning and budgeting by TCA man- agers. TCA Purpose and Values The TCA purpose statement summaries the importance of the TCA, and provides the overall goal that TCA managers are working towards. The purpose of the TCA is defined in this plan as: To preserve the integrity of the protected areas making up the Tsavo Conservation Area while promoting appropriate and sus- tainable d evelopment in the greater TCA landscape The development of the above Purpose Statement was based on the stakeholder identifica- tion of the TCA’s “Exceptional Resource Values” (ERVs), which have been divided into four vi categories: Biodiversity; Scenic; Social; and Cultural. Some of the most important ERVs identified for the TCA include: the area’s high number of endangered species and Kenya’s largest elephant population (biodiversity); the area’s diverse landscapes, scenery and wilder- ness characteristics (scenic); and the national and local economic benefits that the area generates (social). TCA Zonation Scheme The TCA zonation scheme provides a framework both for supporting the decentralisation of the area’s management, and for enabling the regulation and promotion of the desired levels and type of visitor use in different parts of the TCA. In order to achieve this, the area has been divided into 6 management sectors and 7 closely corresponding visitor use zones: Protected Area Management Sector Visitor Use Tsavo East: Voi Sector High Use Emusaya Sector Wilderness; Low Use (strip north of road on south bank of Tiva River) Ithumba Sector Low Use Tsavo West: Kamboyo Sector High Use; Low Use (south of Tsavo River) Jipe Sector Low Use Chyulu Hills: Chyulu Sector Low Use Management Sectors In accordance with the KWS Sectoral Management Strategy for conservation areas, the TCA has been divided into six management sectors with the aim of increasing management pres- ence and infrastructure development throughout the area. The Assistant Director, Tsavo Conservation Area has overall responsibility for the TCA, with the Senior Wardens TENP and TWNP, based at Voi and Kamboyo HQs respectively. Chyulu Hills NP falls under the jurisdic- tion of the Senior Warden, TW. Each of the six management sectors (3 in TENP, 2 in TWNP and 1 in CHNP) will be managed by a warden based at a headquarters located within the sector. Visitor Use Zones The visitor use zones have been developed to en- able the degree and type of visitor use to be man- aged spatially across the TCA.
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