Marine Island

There are many different towns, one of which borders a coastline woodland that has been classified as important for nature protection. All the other towns are located near the coastline or on the off-shore islets. Each inhabitant is heavily reliant on the area's physical resource for sustenance, housing and incomes.

There are also several trading groups whose business also depends directly on the availability of raw materials. On-the-spot exploitation of the area's marine stocks includes, in descending order, fish, squid, corals, mussels, gherkins and lobsters. A wide-ranging get-together took place in Dar es Salaam in February 1991 to discuss the mafia marine parks and set up a steering committee nominated by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Tourism, Nature and the Environment to further plan and suggest the Marine Parks creation and management mechanisms around the mafia.

As well as collecting information, the steering group used the cooperation expanded by the Mafia District and Frontier Tanzania to provide environmental research and comprehensive information on the use of resources (Horril and Ngoile, 1991). Frontier Group and our colleagues also spend a lot of valuable hours to discuss the concept of a multi-user marine farm with the inhabitants of the area.

MIMP has been designed as an effectively administered and fully operational marine reserve. A certain amount of assistance may also be granted to the bots and mpru within the meaning of the Marine Parks and Reserves Act 1994, as the mimp has a functioning administration roof. To improve and preserve the environmental and economical viability of Tanzania's marine and coastline eco-systems.

Facilitating the developement of business activity to relieve pressure on the park's ecosystem while at the same time making sure that all of the park's remaining physical assets are used responsibly. Previously, the objectives of integrated planning for land use, environment and sustainability were defined in the 1993 General Managment Plan as....:

Protection of ecosystems and areas of high biodiversity and biodiversity; promotion of the efficient use of unused nature reserves, in particular in the tourist sector; promotion of the sustainable use of available ressources, taking into account replenishment policies for over-exploited use. Involving the marine parks user communities, in particular the Mafia communities, in the design, construction and administration of the parks and giving the Mafia communities the primacy of the use of human and financial means in pursuit of the objectives Town and Three.