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The
Tanganyika National Parks Ordinance CAP [412] of 1959 established the
organization now known as Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA), and Serengeti
became the first National Park. Conservation in Tanzania is governed by the
Wildlife Conservation Act of 1974, which allows the Government to establish
protected areas and outlines how these are to be organized and managed.
National
Parks represent the highest level of resource protection that can be provided.
By February 2008, TANAPA had grown to 16 national parks, with plans to expand
existing parks. Conservation of eco-systems in all areas designated as national
parks is the core business of the organization.
Nature-based
or wildlife tourism is the main source of income that is ploughed back for
management, regulation, and fulfilment of all organizational mandates in the
national parks.
The
primary role of Tanzania’ national parks is conservation. The 16 national
parks, many of which form the core of a much larger protected ecosystem, have
been set aside to preserve the country’s rich natural heritage, and to provide
secure breeding grounds where its fauna and flora can thrive, safe from the
conflicting interests of a growing human population.
The
existing park system protects a number of internationally recognised bastions
of biodiversity and World Heritage sites, thereby redressing the balance for
those areas of the country affected by deforestation, agriculture and
urbanisation. The gazetting of Saadani and Kitulo National Parks
in 2002 expanded this network to include coastal and montane habitats formerly
accorded a lower level of protection.
Tanzania
National Parks (TANAPA) is also currently acquiring further land to expand
certain parks, and to raise the status of traditional migration corridors
connecting protected areas.
By
choosing to visit Tanzania you are supporting a developing country’s
extraordinary investment in the future. In spite of population pressures,
Tanzania has dedicated more than 46,348.9 square kilometres to national parks.
Including other reserves, conservation areas and marine parks, Tanzania has
accorded some form of formal protection to more than one-third of its territory
– a far higher proportion than most of the world’s wealthier nations.
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