Community Involvement In Coastal Management In Zanzibar: A Case Study Of Mangrove Forest Management In Bwejuu Village

ABSTRACT

The central focus of this study is to understand the way the local communities

involve in the management of mangrove forest. It considers Bwejuu village in

Zanzibar as a case study. The study used questionnaires schedules and interviews

guides as tool of collecting data from the respondents concerned. Purposive sampling

and the simple random techniques were resorted to whereby samples of almost 80

respondents were used to represent the total population of the universe.

The study revealed that mangrove forest in Bwejuu village was not so good and

attractive because of the lack of employment opportunity that force local community

to engage in mangrove cutting as an alternative way of getting employment. The

study further revealed that although Bwejuu village initiated association to manage

mangrove forest but lack of environmental awareness, minimal comprehensive

management, shortage of government support and low poverty level are some of the

challenges coming in the way of implementation of the management of mangrove. In

addition to that poor planning, poor implementation and poor monitoring system

mangrove management are totally mismanaged.

Hence, the study recommends that government through Department of Commercial

Crops and Fruits and other internal and external organization dealing with

environmental conservation and management should educate the local community

surrounded with natural resources about the positive impacts and benefits of

conservation of mangrove and its subsequent impacts on our environment.

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