Jozani-Chwaka boasts of tourism as primary economic activity
ZANZIBAR: JOZANI-CHWAKA Bay National Park is a national park in Tanzania, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) category II and UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme located within Kusini district of the south Zanzibar region of Tanzania. It is the only national park in Zanzibar.
Overview
The core and buffer zones of the Jozani-Chaka Bay National Park’s biosphere reserve remain uninhabited, while approximately 16,423 individuals reside in the transition zone, where they engage in various livelihoods.
This population is culturally diverse, including mix of Bantu peoples; the earlier Makunduchi people and the recent Shirazi communities, with the Hadimu people being the predominant ethnic group and Shirazi representing a smaller segment.
Tourism stands out as the primary economic activity in the area, closely followed by agriculture and fishing, which also play vital roles in the local economy. Additionally, residents participate in livestock farming and gather resources from the forest, including non-timber products such as honey from beekeeping and locally crafted handicrafts.
Jozani forest
Sacred status
Bantu cultural practices and rituals are deeply woven into the lives of these communities. For instance, the Mapopwe preserve is home to significant shrines, while various parts of the reserve engage in celebrations marking the birth of the Prophet Muhammad during the third month of the Islamic calendar (Hijra).
These traditions not only highlight the rich cultural heritage of the surrounding communities but also foster a strong sense of identity and connection to the land they inhabit.
Ecology
The Jozani–Chwaka Bay Biosphere Reserve is the sole national park on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar and is notable for its rich diversity of ecosystems. This unique landscape features a blend of mangroves, tropical forests, coral reefs and various wetlands, alongside agricultural and residential zones.
Recognised as a biodiversity hotspot, the reserve is home to an array of reef fish, dolphins and 168 bird species, including 30 that hold global and regional significance. Among the 291 identified plant species, 21 are classified as endangered.
The area is primarily inhabited by the indigenous Makunduchi people, who have been the first custodians of this land. They sustain their livelihoods through tourism, fishing, beekeeping, butterfly farming and crab fattening, all of which emphasise the harmonious relationship between the community and their environment.
The Zanzibar red colobus, Procolobus kirkii (its population count is about 1,000) found in the park, a rain forest species (unlike the black-and-white colobus found in other regions of Africa), is also known as Kirk’s red colobus, named after Sir John Kirk, the British Resident of Zanzibar who had first brought it to the attention of zoological science.
It is now adopted as the flagship species for conservation in Zanzibar, from the mid-1990s. Other species of fauna found in the park are the Sykes monkey, bush babies, more than 50 species of butterfly and 40 species of birds.
The nocturnal Zanzibar tree hyrax, which has four ‘toes’ on its front feet and three on its back, is said to be the first hyrax specie that has acclimatised to the forest.
As part of the tourism circuit, the park attracts 10 per cent of the over 100,000 visitors to Zanzibar every year. Wild life attractions of Zanzibar also include dolphins apart from deep sea fishing for tuna, marlin and shark.
Another animal in the forests of the Unguja Island unequaled elsewhere is the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi) which was believed to be extinct.
In Swahili, a leopard is called ‘Chui’ and is part of the superstitious beliefs of the people. People believe that sorcerers keep this animal as their pet and scare people by spinning stories that the animal appears like spirits and disappears into thin air, which most likely comes from the fact that Leopards are very shy of humans and elusive.
It was last reported in 1999 and officials and men working on the “coral rag” lands of the southern and eastern Unguja Island are assertive that the species is not extinct, though it has not been sighted since 2003.
The last sighting reported in 2002-2003 was of two leopards. Photographs of live examples of the species are not known to exist, although a stuffed example is a museum display in Zanzibar Museum and a few skins exist in museums in London and Massachusetts.
Trail camera footage from a 2018 American documentary television series does appear to have captured proof of the leopard’s existence and will undoubtedly spark renewed interest and further protective enforcements. A smaller leopard with spots, which is a biological product of the larger animal, is seen now in the island.
The sea grass beds of the Chwaka Bay, fringed with mangrove forests, are important breeding grounds for marine organisms, including open sea fish species. The mangroves are also good breeding grounds for birds.
An Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) planning for the area is under consideration. The bay is also proposed to be declared a Ramsar Site and is placed on the Tanzanian Tentative List for World Heritage Sites to recognise its unique natural and cultural assets with due consideration of proposed conservation efforts.
Conservation
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the park site occupies “the largest remaining tand of near-natural forest on Zanzibar.”
The forest rests upon a reef limestone marine terrace. Habitats within the park and associated protected lands include a groundwater forest, coastal forest and grassland, with mangroves and salt marsh at the coast. The vegetation types found within the park once existed throughout Zanzibar.
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