ʻO ka Ikona Wildlife Management Area, kahi o ka Singita Grumeti Reserve, ua kauoha mua i kahi kikowaena malihini kipa hou, kahi e pōmaikaʻi ai ka wahi holoʻokoʻa, i hoʻolaʻa ʻia no ka mālama holoholona hihiu. Ua kākoʻo ʻia ke kikowaena me ke kākoʻo o ka Frankfurt Zoological Society, ke aupuni o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa a me ka World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Ua loaʻa pū kekahi i ke kōkua mai nā ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi i loaʻa i ka Wildlife Management Area (WMA), ʻo ia iho he paionia i nā papahana mākaʻikaʻi kaiāulu. ʻO ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻana i nā kamaʻāina he ʻāpana koʻikoʻi hoʻi ia o ke kikowaena hou, e hāʻawi i nā mākau makemake nui i nā poʻe mai ia wahi, ma kahi o ka 'hoʻokomo ʻana' i nā limahana mai nā wahi ʻē aʻe o Tanzania.
He ala hou ʻo WMA i ka paipai ʻana i nā kaiāulu kūloko e hui pū me nā mea hoʻopukapuka kālā a hoʻokaʻawale i ka ʻāina ʻaʻole i ulu nui i ka mahiʻai a i ʻole ka hanai holoholona no ka mālama holoholona hihiu, i manaʻo ʻia e hana i nā ʻāpana pale no ka pale hou ʻana i nā paka nui a me nā pāʻani pāʻani, akā e hoʻolaha pū i ka waiwai. nā pōmaikaʻi e like me nā hana a me ka loaʻa kālā e pili ana i ka mākaʻikaʻi i nā kauhale i kāpae ʻia a nānā ʻole ʻia. ʻO nā nūhou mālama maikaʻi mai Tanzania, pono ke hoʻomaikaʻi ʻia a hoʻolaha nui ʻia.
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- 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.
