I-Ikona Wildlife Management Area, eyinxalenye yayo iSingita Grumeti Reserve, ngoku imisele ngokusesikweni iziko elitsha labatyeleli, apho yonke indawo, ezinikele kulondolozo lwezilwanyana zasendle, iza kuxhamla. Eli ziko lalixhaswa ngenkxaso yeFrankfurt Zoological Society, urhulumente waseUnited States kunye neWorld Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Ikwafumene uncedo kumashishini okhenketho akwiNdawo yoLawulo lweZilwanyana zasendle (i-WMA), yona ngoku enguvulindlela kwiinkqubo zokhenketho loluntu. Uqeqesho lwabemi balapha lukwayinxalenye ebalulekileyo yeziko elitsha, eliya kubonelela ngezakhono ezifuneka kakhulu kubantu abasuka kwindawo, endaweni 'yokukhupha' abasebenzi abavela kwezinye iindawo zaseTanzania.
I-WMA iyindlela entsha yokukhuthaza uluntu lwengingqi ukuba lusebenzisane nabatyali-mali kwaye lubekele bucala umhlaba ongavelisi mveliso ngokugqithisileyo kwezolimo okanye ukufuya iifama zolondolozo lwezilwanyana zasendle, ejolise ekudaleni iindawo ezisikhuselayo zokhuseleko olongeziweyo lweepaki zesizwe eziphambili kunye neendawo zokulondoloza izilwanyana, kodwa nokusasaza uqoqosho. izibonelelo ezifana nemisebenzi kunye nengeniso enxulumene nokhenketho kwiilali ebezingahoywa ngaphambili kwaye zingahoywa. Iindaba ezimnandi zolondolozo ezivela eTanzania, zifanele ukuqhwatyelwa izandla kunye nokwenza ukuba zaziwe ngokubanzi.
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- WMA ia a new approach to encouraging local communities to partner with investors and set aside land not overly productive in agriculture or ranching for wildlife conservation, aimed to create buffer zones for added protection of the main national parks and game reserves, but also to spread economic benefits like jobs and tourism related income into villages which have previously been bypassed and ignored.
- The Ikona Wildlife Management Area, of which the Singita Grumeti Reserve is part, has now formally commissioned a new visitor center, from which the entire area, dedicated to wildlife conservation, is to benefit.
- Training of locals is also important part of the new center, that will provide much needed skills to the people from the area, instead of ‘importing' staff from other parts of Tanzania.
