Ikona Wildlife Management Area, iyo iri chikamu cheSingita Grumeti Reserve, ikozvino yapa zviri pamutemo nzvimbo itsva yevashanyi, iyo nzvimbo yose, yakazvipira kuchengetedza mhuka, ichabatsirika. Nzvimbo iyi yakapihwa mari nerutsigiro rweFrankfurt Zoological Society, hurumende yeUnited States neWorld Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Yakawanawo rubatsiro kubva kumabhizimusi ezvekushanya ari munzvimbo yeWildlife Management Area (WMA), iyo pachayo yava piyona muzvirongwa zvekushanya kwenharaunda. Kudzidziswa kwevanhu veko kunokoshawo chikamu chemuzinda mutsva, iyo ichapa unyanzvi hunodiwa kune vanhu vanobva munharaunda, panzvimbo ye 'importing' vashandi vanobva kune dzimwe nzvimbo dzeTanzania.
WMA inzira itsva yekukurudzira nharaunda kuti dzibatane nevanoisa mari uye kuisa parutivi ivhu risinganyanyi kubereka mukurima kana kurima kuchengetedzwa kwemhuka dzesango, ine chinangwa chekugadzira nzvimbo dzekuchengetedza nzvimbo dzekuwedzera dziviriro yemapaki makuru enyika uye nzvimbo dzinochengeterwa mhuka, asiwo kuparadzira hupfumi. mabhenefiti akaita semabasa uye mari ine chekuita nekushanya mumisha yakambopfuudzwa nekuregeredzwa. Nhau dzakanaka dzekuchengetedza kubva kuTanzania, zvakakodzera kuombera maoko uye kuita kuti zvizivikanwe zvakanyanya.
ZVOKUBVA MUNYAYA INO:
- 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.
