Promoting Cross-border Co-operation in the Management of Natural Resources in Shared Ecosystems

A report on discussions aimed at establishing transboundary management of natural resources in the Niassa- Selous.

For 18 years Tanzania and Germany have worked together to conserve and manage natural resources in the Selous and its buffer zones. A wide range of German and other development agencies take part in this cooperation. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) supports “Community Based Conservation” for poverty reduction and as a means of developing a buffer-zone in the South of the Selous Game Reserve. In cooperation with local and district authorities 26 villages are about to register three wildlife management areas with approximately 9,000 km2. In order to obtain a sound scientific foundation three years of research on elephant migration was carried out by the Wildlife Division, the Tanzanian Wildlife Research Institute, the Institute for Zoo Biology and Wildlife Research of Berlin and GTZ. The results of the project confirmed genetic exchange and the existence of migration routes for elephants and other mammals between the game reserves. A project to initiate the conservation of the corridor started in 2005. This will involve UNDP/Global Environmental Facility, the Wildlife Division and GTZ-International Services.

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