eastern arc mountains forests of tanzania - Campaign for the ...

Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania
5. Protection and Management of the Property
5.a Ownership
The core elements of the proposed World Heritage property (Udzungwa Mountains National Park and the four
existing and four proposed Nature Reserves) are all owned and managed by the central government through the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.
Udzungwa Mountains National Park covers 199,000 ha and managed by the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA), a
parastatal organisation of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. TANAPA was established in 1959
through the national parks ordinance and is now under the National Parks Act Cap. 282 of 2002. All matters
relating to the establishment and gazettment, degazettment and change of purpose of a National Parks fall under
this Act. National Parks are established after consent of parliament and gazettment must be endorsed by the
President. TANAPA receives no funds from government and in fact pays corporate tax to the treasury. TANAPA
took management of the Udzungwa Mountains National Park area in 1992, after the park was created from three
national Forest Reserves that had previously been managed by the Forestry and Beekeeping Division of the same
Ministry of government.
The four gazetted Nature Reserves (Kilombero - Udzungwa, Uluguru - Uluguru, Nilo and Amani – East Usambara;
covering 173,231 ha) and the four proposed Nature Reserves (Mkingu - Nguru, Magamba – West Usambara,
Uzungwa Scarp – Udzungwa and Chome – South Pare; covering 82,080 ha) are managed by the Nature Reserves
Unit of the Forestry and Beekeeping Division of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. These Nature
Reserves have largely been created by re-gazetting, upgrading and amalgamating a number of national Forest
Reserves managed by the same Division of government.
The buffer zone areas around the core sites within the Eastern Arc World Heritage property consist of some national
Forest Reserves managed the catchment forest programme of the Forestry and Beekeeping Division, or are local
authority Forest Reserves managed by District councils and under the Prime Ministers Office for Regional and
Local Government (PMO-RALG).
The potential to include additional sites in the future that meet criteria of Outstanding Universal Value, but which do
not have adequate management in place has also been considered here. All the sites that might ultimately be
included are national Forest Reserves under the management of the Forestry and Beekeeping Division of
government. As such they are owned by the same agency involved with the original set of sites.
5.b Protective designation
The Udzungwa Mountains National Park is declared by an act of Parliament and has existed since 1992. This
legislation only permits tourism and photography and limited research. No utilisation is allowed. Udzungwa
Mountains National Park was gazetted on 20 th March 1992 (Government Notice No. 39) as an IUCN category II
protected area. Copies of the gazettment are attached to this dossier.
The four declared Nature Reserves within the Eastern Arc have been gazetted by the government of Tanzania.
Copies of the published gazettment notices are included in this dossier, but the relevant summary details are as
follows:
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism 86