Serengeti General Management Plan

Serengeti National Park General Management Plan
Action 3.3.4: Monitor and regulate park transit traffic
A number of approaches will be adopted under this management action in order to ensure
that the transit traffic passing through the Serengeti conforms to the SENAPA regulations
and Code of Conduct (Action 1.1.2 of Section D). This will include the implementation of a
pilot scheme for posting park staff on buses and other transit vehicles in order to monitor
driving and raise awareness of the Code of Conduct. However, it will only be possible to
monitor a small proportion of transit vehicles through this pilot scheme. In order to provide a
more comprehensive check on compliance to park regulations, actions will be taken to penalise
against speeding and exceeding the weight limit. To monitor this, weighbridges will be
introduced to randomly measure the weight of transit vehicles and the time taken to pass
through permissible routes will be recorded for all transit traffic. Those vehicles found to be
speeding or overweight will be penalised. Certain routes, such as through the Western Corridor,
will not be permissible for transit traffic. Consequently, supply vehicles for lodges and
camps to these areas will have to come and go by the same route.
Objective 4: Local, national and international collaboration in
the long-term conservation and management of the
Serengeti National Park and wider ecosystem strengthened
The desired future state of SENAPA is one where the full spectrum of stakeholders within the
broader ecosystem is coordinated and effectively working together to ensure the long-term
conservation of SENAPA and the broader ecosystem upon which it functions. The role of
SENAPA management will have been central in instigating and coordinating this cooperation.
The management target to achieve this desired state will focus on forming national and international
partnerships and exchange programmes.
Target 4.1: Stakeholder collaboration and partnerships established
and strengthened
The broader Serengeti ecosystem is substantially protected by SENAPA, which covers about
59 per cent of the area of the ecosystem. However, SENAPA cannot be managed in isolation
and a healthy SENAPA is very much contingent on the sustainable and coordinated management
of all the areas within the broader ecosystem. Therefore SENAPA management will
work to establish and strengthen collaboration and partnerships between and among key
stakeholders.
SENAPA management already has a good history of forming partnerships with local and regional
institutions. For instance, SENAPA management collaborates closely with all sister
institutions surrounding the Park, the Zonal Anti-poaching Unit at Bunda, district authorities,
local communities, private initiatives, researchers, and the Masai Mara National Reserve in
Kenya. In addition, the international importance of the Serengeti, as an UNESCO Biosphere
Reserve and World Heritage Site, has facilitated the establishment of partnerships at the international
level; for example with Yellowstone National Park in the USA and with international
non-governmental organizations (NGOs). One such NGO is the Frankfurt Zoological
Society (FZS), which is based in Seronera and has for many years been a strong conservation
management partner of SENAPA and surrounding protected areas.
In order to achieve this target, two management actions have been formulated and are described
below.
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