Singita Grumeti 保护区所属的 Ikona 野生动物管理区现已正式委托建立一个新的游客中心，整个地区都将受益于野生动物保护。 该中心得到了法兰克福动物学会、美国政府和世界自然基金会 (WWF) 的支持。 它还得到了位于野生动物管理区 (WMA) 的旅游企业的帮助，该地区本身现在是社区旅游计划的先驱。 培训当地人也是新中心的重要组成部分，它将为该地区的人们提供急需的技能，而不是从坦桑尼亚其他地区“进口”员工。
WMA 是一种新方法，鼓励当地社区与投资者合作，并为野生动物保护留出不会过度生产农业或牧场的土地，旨在创建缓冲区以增加对主要国家公园和野生动物保护区的保护，同时也扩大经济以前被绕过和忽视的工作和旅游相关收入等福利进入村庄。 来自坦桑尼亚的保护好消息，值得鼓掌和广为人知。
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- WMA ia a new approach to encouraging local communities to partner with investors and set aside land not overly productive in agriculture or ranching for wildlife conservation, aimed to create buffer zones for added protection of the main national parks and game reserves, but also to spread economic benefits like jobs and tourism related income into villages which have previously been bypassed and ignored.
- The Ikona Wildlife Management Area, of which the Singita Grumeti Reserve is part, has now formally commissioned a new visitor center, from which the entire area, dedicated to wildlife conservation, is to benefit.
- Training of locals is also important part of the new center, that will provide much needed skills to the people from the area, instead of ‘importing' staff from other parts of Tanzania.
