GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 12831

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 44(3) of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013, the Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife gazettes the Plan in the Schedule hereto. SCHEDULE The Mara Naboisho Conservancy Management Plan (hereinafter referred to as "the Plan") defines the principles and strategies that stakeholders of Mara Naboisho Conservancy have designed to address natural resource management, tourism development, community engagement and livelihoods, livestock management and conservancy operations. The Plan emphasizes that all activities within the Mara Naboisho Conservancy shall be in accordance with the Plan and the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013. The Plan is a dynamic document that shall be subject to periodic reviews, depending on emerging issues and new knowledge. The Plan addresses threats to Mara Naboisho Conservancy's values through the following management intervention measures — (a) implementing the Zoning scheme outlined in the Plan; and (b) implementing management actions under the five management programmes. The Plan's zoning scheme and management programmes are outlined in the following sections: 1. ZONING SCHEME The Mara Naboisho Conservancy's zoning scheme seeks to regulate the use of resources for sustainable development and integrated land use. To achieve this Mara Naboisho Conservancy has been divided into five zones (Community settlement; Livestock Grazing; Core Conservation; Special Habitat and Tourism Facility). 2. MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES The Plan has five management programmes (Natural Resources Management; Tourism Development and Management; Community Engagement and Livelihoods; Livestock Management and Conservancy Operations). Each management programme contains management objectives that set out the future desired state that the Plan implementers aim to achieve and a set of specific management actions to achieve these objectives. 2.1 NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME The program's main objective is to maintain, enhance and restore the conservancy's integrity, health, biological diversity and habitat quality for the benefit of its native wildlife populations. 2.2 TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME The main aim of developing tourism is to establish the conservancy as a leading model of a high value and low impact eco- tourism destination. 2.3 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND LIVELIHOODS PROGRAMME To win the support of the community the conservancy shall provide tangible benefits from wildlife conservation through leases and employment. 2.4 LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME The main aim of the livestock management programme is to sustainably harness the grazing potential of the conservancy to generate income for the management and landowners. 2.5 CONSERVANCY OPERATIONS PROGRAMME The programs's aim is to build sufficient operational and infrastructural capacity to manage the conservancy with excellence. The Plan including the background information on the plan and facts upon which the Plan is based is deposited at the offices of the Director-General, Kenya Wildlife Service along Langata Road and the Conservancy Chairman whose addresses are provided below: The Director-General, Kenya Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 40241-00200, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: (254) 020 6000800/6002345, E-mail: kws@kws.go.ke The Chairman, Mara Lemek Conservancy's Land Owners, P.O. Box 511— 20500, Narok Tel: (254) (0) 722550782 E-mail:mlemekconservancy@gmail.com Dated the 30th October, 2021. NAJIB BALALA, Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife.