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Twenty three national parks together comprise an area of more than 99,306.5 square kilometres (38,342.5 sq mi). They are administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA). Names like Arusha and Serengeti are well known, partly due to films about African wildlife. [6]
TANAPA also pays to maintain the park facilities for tourists and conservation activities such as Roads, Gates, Boundaries and Airstrips. TANAPA currently manages 26 airstrips throughout its network of national parks. [10] Often forest fires break out in the parks and it is under TANAPA's mandate to put them out.
The vagueness of the language used in the reserve's official gazette, [4] but also TANAPA's early interventions to develop its own map of the reserve, and its interests in Saadani's sub-villages’ prime coastal lands have come to challenge Saadani's coastal sub-villages’ rights to lawfully inhabit their traditional territories, and have led ...
Entrance to Tarangire National Park. Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania's Manyara Region.The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park.
Tanzania National Parks Authority tanzaniaparks .com /mkomazi .html Mkomazi National Park is located in northeastern Tanzania on the Kenyan border, in Same District of Kilimanjaro Region and Lushoto District , with a slither of the park in Mkinga District both of Tanga Region .
Lake Manyara National Park is a protected area in Tanzania's Arusha and Manyara Regions, situated between Lake Manyara and the Great Rift Valley.It is administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority, and covers an area of 325 km 2 (125 sq mi) including about 230 km 2 (89 sq mi) lake surface.
The park, at the time known as "Saa Nane Island Game Sanctuary", was accidentally bombed during the air campaign of the Uganda–Tanzania War of 1978–1979. [7] On 29 March 1979, [8] Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered one of his Tupolev Tu-22 bombers to attack Mwanza, hoping to thereby intimidate the Tanzanian government into calling off its invasion of Uganda. [9]
The number of visitors to the park on an annual basis is extremely low, in comparison to better known parks, just above 1,500 foreign visitors out of a total 900,000 registered in the whole Tanzania National Parks system during 2012/13. [6]