Serengeti General Management Plan

Table of Contents
Approval Page.............................................................................................................................. i
Foreword .................................................................................................................................... iii
Executive Summary................................................................................................................... iv
Park Purpose and Exceptional Resource Values................................................................iv
Zoning Scheme ................................................................................................................... v
Management Programmes.................................................................................................. v
3-Year Action Plans........................................................................................................... viii
Monitoring Plan .................................................................................................................viii
Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................... ix
Figures....................................................................................................................................... xii
Tables ........................................................................................................................................ xii
Acronyms ................................................................................................................................. xiv
A. Plan Introduction................................................................................................. 1
Context ........................................................................................................................................ 1
Context ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Function and structure............................................................................................................... 2
Alignment of GMP with SENAPA departments ................................................................... 3
10-year strategic and 3-year action plan structure .............................................................. 3
Logical Framework Approach.............................................................................................. 4
Participation................................................................................................................................ 4
Process........................................................................................................................................ 6
B. Park Values And Purpose .................................................................................. 9
SENAPA Exceptional Resource Values.................................................................................... 9
SENAPA Exceptional Resource Values.................................................................................. 10
Natural values ................................................................................................................... 10
Scenic................................................................................................................................ 14
Social................................................................................................................................. 15
Cultural .............................................................................................................................. 17
SENAPA Purpose Statement ................................................................................................... 18
SENAPA Zoning Scheme ......................................................................................................... 19
High Use Zone .................................................................................................................. 20
Low Use Zone ................................................................................................................... 21
Wilderness Zone ............................................................................................................... 21
C. Ecosystem Management Programme............................................................. 23
Ecosystem management strategy........................................................................................... 23
Ecosystem management strategy........................................................................................... 24
Conserving ecosystem processes..................................................................................... 24
Protecting genetic diversity of native wildlife and plant life................................................ 25
Managing fire regimes....................................................................................................... 25
Maintaining hydrological cycles......................................................................................... 25
Prioritisation of ecosystem components and threats........................................................... 26
SENAPA Conservation Targets ........................................................................................ 26
Ecosystem threats............................................................................................................. 27
SENAPA Ecosystem Management Programme Objectives.................................................. 30
Objective 1: The conservation and ecological status of SENAPA Conservation
Targets enhanced and threats reduced.................................................................................. 31
Target 1.1: Human impacts threatening the Migration minimised ..................................... 32
Target 1.2: Human impacts to the Mara River monitored and minimised ......................... 34
Target 1.3: Fire extent, frequency and intensity within key habitats managed.................. 35
Target 1.4: Restoration of viable populations of Black rhino ............................................. 37
ix