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Serengeti National Park General Management Plan Objective 2: Regular, management-oriented monitoring and assessment of key ecosystem values and processes strengthened The desired future state of SENAPA is one where the evolving ecosystem functioning and status are understood and where this knowledge is used to make informed management decisions to achieve the Park’s objectives. To achieve this desired state, a framework has been developed in this GMP for future monitoring of the health of the SENAPA ecosystem, and to provide the basis for the development of a comprehensive SENAPA Ecological Monitoring Plan (Technical Detail Plan). The SENAPA Ecological Monitoring Plan will monitor the health of the Serengeti ecosystem; i.e. the sustained maintenance or enhancement of the viability of the Conservation Targets. The plan will also monitor both the threats to the Conservation Targets as well as the Key Ecological Attributes of the Conservation Targets, as illustrated in Figure C.1 above. The objective will be to not simply focus on monitoring per se, but also on analysing and using the information collected to better inform management decisions. As the Serengeti ecosystem is broader than the boundaries of SENAPA, it is important that the monitoring includes areas outside SENAPA wherever possible. These activities will be coordinated with natural resource managers and researchers from the Greater Serengeti ecosystem (both in Kenya and within Tanzania). The framework for the Monitoring Plan is set out in 0 overpage. The indicators provide the measurable entities for assessing the status and trends of the KEAs or threats to each Conservation Target. The indicators are designed to be easy to measure and to provide an early warning to serious threats that require mitigating actions. Included in the Plan framework is the data collection methodology, which identifies how, when, where and who will collect the data for the indicators. Development of the Ecological Monitoring Plan firstly requires a baseline to be established; not only for future comparisons but also to enable the establishment of clearly defined indicators and, where appropriate, the limits of acceptable change. The limits of acceptable change will take into account natural variability in key ecological attributes and guide conservation action aimed at managing a target’s attributes within this natural variability. Once the baseline and specific indicators are established, it will be possible to periodically collect, analyse and integrate monitoring information into management decision-making and practice. Mitigation of environmental impacts of major Ecosystem Programme actions No negative environmental impacts are anticipated from the implementation of management actions identified to achieve this objective. 40
Table C.4: Framework for the SENAPA Ecological Monitoring Plan Key Ecological Attribute/ Threat Indicator of change Conservation Target 1: The Migration KEA: Traditional migratory routes KEA: Population size of key species KEA: Productivity of key species Seasonal migratory movements in: - West of the Grumeti River (Ikona WMA); - Grumeti and Ikorongo GRs - East Kuka/ West Loliondo route to Kenya; - Masai Mara NR and Group Ranch land - Salei Plains; - Lake Victoria; - Maswa GR Method of measurement Wildebeest Collars & aerial surveys Large ungulates Aerial surveys & photographs Key carnivores except lions Lions Photo IDs on the plains, call back experiments Recruitment Sampling transects to assess ratio of juveniles to females (or adults if sex differentiation difficult) Mortality Die-offs: sampling blood and tissue from dead animals Collection frequency Data source Annually Research monitoring reports Two years CIMU (SENAPA, WD, NCAA, FZS) Ground transects Five years Tanzania Carnivore Centre Five years Tanzania Carnivore Centre Two years Research monitoring reports Opportunistic sampling to determine cause C. Ecosystem Management Programme Responsibility SENAPA, FZS, TAWIRI CIMU (SENAPA, WD, NCAA, FZS) Tanzania Carnivore Centre Tanzania Carnivore Centre SENAPA Ecological Monitoring Research TANAPA Vet. Dept & SENAPA Ecological Monitoring, TAWIRI Data currently collected? Yes, but many collars no longer functional Yes Yes, but not systematic Not yet systematic No No 41
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