Session2 03 Sergio Chiarandini

Chumbe Island Coral Park (CHICOP)

Sergio Chiarandini

LT&C – Linking Tourism & Conservation

The Long Run

Can Sustainable Tourism Create and Manage Marine Parks?

The Case of Chumbe Island Coral Park

Zanzibar -Tanzania

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

UN 17 Sustainable

Development Goals

The UN declared 2017 the Year of

Sustainability, recognizing

sustainable tourism as a key

factor in helping communities

develop around the world.

The three pillars of sustainable

tourism are Economic (such as

primarily hiring local staff),

Social (protecting rich cultural

heritage, support communities

Economic growth, development projects

Environmental (recycling, renewables,

ecosystem management, Private

Protected Areas, information )

Chumbe Island Coral Park, Tanzania

Marine Protected Area (MPA) since 1994

First Worldwide Private Protected Area (PPA)

Photo: Secret Hearth

Photo: Oskar Errikssonn

Photo: S.ChiarandiniPhotos: Oskar Henriksson

Photo: Roxy

Photo: JP Plettener

Photo: Secret Hearth

Photo:Chumbe archive

Photo: S. Chiarandini


Photo: Jimmy Livefjord

Photo: Roxy

Photo: S.Chiarandini

Photo: Chumbe archive

Photo: Kydd Pollock

Photo: Frida Lamshammar

Photo: Chumbe archive

Photo: Anke Hofmeister

Photo:Oskar Errikssonn

Photo: Chumbe Archive

Photo: Oskar Enrikksonn

Photo: Craig Zendel

Photo: Jimmy Livefiord

Photo: Jimmy Liverfjord

Photo: Oskar Enriksson


Photo: Jimmy Livefiord

Photo: BBC Earth

Photos: Anke Hofmeister and Chumbe Archive

Chumbe Island Manager, Rangers and Staff

A real treasure and a great assett for the Park

Photo: Hal Thomson

Burning Issues

72 Trillion $

UNWTO Annual Meeting 2016

Burning IssuesFact: States are failing conservation

• Common myth “PAs are a luxury“ thatneed to be subsidized

• PAs massively subsidize government budgets, mostly through tourism

• Poor PA governance, “Paper parks“, PA Degrading, Down-sizing andDegazettement (PADDD)

• Lack of no-take zones

• Lack of funding

Fact: Most MPAs are not functional

• Poor enforcement

• Lack of community involvement

Balmford / IUCN (2015)

556 state-run PA’s

51 countries

• 25% of the world’s marine fish species

• Livelihood for 500 M people

• < 45% still healthy …but threatened & disappearing

• ~19% already dead (coral bleaching, over/destructive fishing, pollution)

Fact: Worldwide Coral Reef Crisis

Tourism can

directly support

coral reef and

habitat

conservation

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Chumbe PPA Vision

EDUCATION CONSERVATION ECOTOURISM

The Chumbe Island Coral Reef Sanctuary and Closed ForestHabitat are effectively and sustainably managed in order to

� maximize their contribution to biodiversity conservation,

� serve as a model for effective ecotourism and MPAmanagement, and

� provide a platform to promote wider environmentalawareness and education for sustainable development andecological stewardship in Zanzibar.

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Chumbe PPA Conservation

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Area Boundary

Habitats

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Settlement

Sparse Forest/Settlement

Dense Forest

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Sandy Beach

Mixed Reef/Seagrass

Reef slope

Intertidal

Seagrass trench

Seagrass

Deep Outer Slope

Deep Slope

Deep Water

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North Island

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! Boundary Points

Area Boundary

Habitats

Land

Settlement

Sparse Forest/Settlement

Dense Forest

Islets

Near Shore

Sandy Beach

Mixed Reef/Seagrass

Reef slope

Intertidal

Seagrass trench

Seagrass

Deep Outer Slope

Deep Slope

Deep Water

Coral Reef Sanctuary:

55.06 ha

Forest Habitat:

16.64 ha

Total Protected Area:

71.7 ha

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Chumbe PPA Conservation – Spillover Effect

IUCN WORLD PARK CONGRESS 2014

“Unlike other industries and human-

driven activities, Tourism in protected

areas can be a Strong positive Force ,

increasing a sense of stewardship and

revenues that are vital for the long-term

protection of these important

conservation areas”

“By contrast, reduced visitor numbers to

protected areas can signal a lack of

political interest or public support”

Dr. Yu-Fai Leung, IUCN WCPA Tourism

and Protected Areas Specialist Group.

Chumbe Method: Ecotourism

Can Sustainable Tourism Create and Manage Marine Parks?

The Case of Chumbe Island Coral Park

Chumbe PPA Method: Ecotourism

• Ecotourism funds all conservation &

education activities

First Financially Self-Sustaining MPA in the World

Does the business model work??Total investment: 1.2 Mill USD Proportional Annual Expenditures

(park establishment, visitor centre & bungalows)

- 50% private loan

- 25% donations from aid organisations

- 25% worth volunteer work (marine biologists, engineers...)

• Not-for-profit organization: All

revenue returned to project

MPA core functions operational at 30% occupancy rate

Chumbe PPA Method: Education & Research• Environmental Education (EE) schools programme

• School excursions: > 7.236 children

• Teacher Training: >1,236 teachers

• Peer Education ( 861 Communities Members, fishermen, etc)

• Universities & academic institutions, GOs/NGOs

• Chumbe Reef Monitoring (Sept – March)

• Various Research Projects ( Coral Monitoring)

• Marine Mammals, Turtles, Seagrass, Invertebrates, Management Plan

Chumbe PPA Metod: Ecotourism

Excellence in sustainability

governance:

• Local construction materials

• Composting toilets

• Vegetative greywater

filtration

• No waste, no sewage, no

plastic

• Near-to-zero Air emissions

Near-to-zero H2O discharge

• Rainwater catchment

• Natural Ventilation - No air

conditioning

• Photovoltaic energy and

solar water heating

Chumbe PPA Metod: Ecotourism

Self exploration

Nature

AuthenticityExperiences

becoming

Rare..

Wildlife

Sustainable Tourism

a solution for natural and cultural heritage conservation.

Chumbe PPA Contribution

Chumbe PPA Implication & Way Forward

Less is More….

Chumbe PPA Contribution

• Chumbe Island Coral Park is an award-winning

private nature reserve developed since 1991 for

the conservation and sustainable management of

uninhabited Chumbe Island.

• A model of financially, ecologically and socially

sustainable MPA management, where ecotourism

supports conservation, research and

environmental education for local people.

• First Financially Self-Sustaining Marine Protected

Area in the World.

• Ecotourism funds all conservation & education

activities.

It can be

done!

Chumbe Island Coral Park

Thank You!

www.ltandc.org www.thelongrun.org

For more information:

www.chumbeisland.com

�. it’s the people that make Chumbe special !!!!!

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