INTRODUCTION

 Serengeti- Maasai Mara Ecosystem Dialouge

 Greater Pangani Basin
 Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor

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PRANAV
 Why transboundary Co-operation?
 Restoring ecological integrity and thereby
promoting ecosystem resilience.
Sustainable and equitable use of land and
water recourse in a river basin.
Promoting peace and collaboration amongst
neighboring countries.
 Creating synergistic tourism opportunities
 Promoting socio-economic development in the region
and improving rural livelihood
 Serengeti-Maasai Mara Ecosystem
 SMME is one of the largest remaining natural
ecosystem in Africa.
 covering approx:25,000 sq.km.
 It has a unique concentration of wildebeest and
Zebras, which freely criss-cross the Tanzania and
Kenya border every year.

DEV
Background:
• SMME lies on the border of Tanzania and Kenya.
• It supports nearly 1.5 million migratory wildebeest and zebra
and has the world’s greatest concentration of predators.
• SMME is part of the Lake Victoria Basin and three major
rivers - the Mara, Grumeti and Simiyu – originate.
• It is a life support system for about one million pastoralists
and agriculturalists.
• Biodiversity conservation
• Conserve and manage a regional ecosystem that benefits
wildlife by facilitating natural ecological processes to
function with minimal impediment
• Develop and secure effective water catchments
• Socio-economic
• Facilitate a conducive environment for poverty alleviation
• Develop shared management and marketing strategies for
expanding the regional tourism industry
• Promote non-tourism economic opportunities
• Peace and cooperation
• Establish a regional transboundary approach in managing
natural resources, which leads to
• collaboration between partner states, institutions and civil
societies
• Promote sharing of regional resources and skills
• Build a partnership between stakeholder
• This is a joint initiative of Pangani River Basin Office
(Tanzania), & Coast Development Authority (Kenya),
PAMOJA Trust, supported by the GTZ Water Sector Reform
Programme and InWEnt.
• Focal areas are Lakes Jipe and Chala and the Umba River.
• The Selous - Niassa wildlife corridor is a landscape linkage between
Africa's largest protected areas.
• The Selous Game Reserve of Tanzania, acknowledged as a World
Heritage Site and home to Africa's largest elephant, buffalo, sable
and other wildlife populations
•  The Niassa Game Reserve of Mozambique, well renowned for its
large elephant population.
• The corridor covers 8000 km2 of sparsely settled land over a
distance of 160 km 
• The dimensions of the corridor will allow even the largest herbivore,
the African elephant, to migrate between the two largest elephant
ranges of the world, the Selous and Niassa Game Reserves

SUMIT
•  The Selous-Niassa Wildlife corridor provides a significant
biological link between the two reserves and consequently for
the miombo woodland eco-system, severe threats to its
continued existence, which if left unattended, will block this
important link.
• The threats are the uncontrolled and unplanned conversion of
land for agricultural use, development along the major roads,
the unsustainable and illegal use of natural resources including
the high value poaching of ivory across the national
boundaries and uncontrolled fires
1. To conserve the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor by the
establishment of a network of village wildlife management
areas (WMAs) that are sustained, protected, managed and
utilised by the local communities, with the assistance of the
Local Government and Wildlife Division. 
2. To benefit the livelihood and security of villagers of
communities with WMAs from wildlife management, and
promote the long-term conservation of the corridor. 
3. The overall purpose of the project is the long-term
conservation of community, species and genetic biological
diversity of the forest ecosystem within the protected areas of
northern Mozambique and southern Tanzania by developing
an effective wildlife corridor. 
 Develop an effective institutional framework that engages all
relevant stake holders
 Ensure that joint management of the TBPA achieved
 Involve local communities early in the planning process and
sustain participation

RAVI
• It is necessary to proceed in small incremental steps but with
tangible results within a two year time frame
• The institutional framework and clarification of stakeholder
mandates in the dialogue needs further attention
• A long term perspective is to build a negotiation
platform for the development of regional strategies towards
sustainable management of shared resources and ecological
processes