Ol Doinyo Lengai. The Mountain of God. Click Here. Get In Touch. Africa Serendipity Safaris. Walks accompanied by an armed guide offer the opportunity to see Cape buffalo, elephant and perhaps lion, and a boat safari provides you with the thrill of getting close to hippos and crocodiles. Although poaching affected the African elephant population in the s, careful management and conservation schemes have brought their numbers back to a healthy level.
There are also large numbers of Nile crocodile and African wild dog, lion, leopard and many species of plains game. Covering some 54, square kilometres of southern Tanzania, the park is named after Frederick Courtney Selous, the famous 19th century hunter and explorer whose books were bestsellers in Victorian England. This is Tanzania at its wildest and an ideal choice for the discerning wildlife enthusiast seeking a pioneering Africa trip. Siwandu formerly Selous Safari Camp is made up of two camps, with six and seven tents respectively, situated in palm grove on Lake Nzerakera, merging with their surroundings in an unfenced area where wildlife roam free.
Each camp has its own pool, bar, dining area and kitchen, vehicles, boats, and walking guides. The best time to visit the Selous is during the June to October dry season when wildlife congregates around permanent water. A fly-in destination, this virtually unexplored reserve is rarely visited in isolation so we recommend combining a Selous safari with a stay at Ruaha or Katavi - the other savannah parks in South Central Tanzania equally as wild as Selous - or Mahale National Park, a pristine rainforest reserve on Lake Tanganyika , complete with chimpanzees, forest birds and dazzling clouds of butterflies.
Browse our range of Selous tours and safaris or simply chat to one of our Africa Experts and they'll tailor-make a safari to your specifications; you can even add on a beach holiday on Zanzibar or laid-back Mafia Island - just ask us how. With more than five million hectares 50, km 2 larger than Switzerland, the Reserve is one of the few remaining vast wilderness areas in eastern Africa with a high degree of naturalness.
Home to extraordinary populations of large mammals, including an elephant population of global importance Selous Game Reserve was in was inscribed on the World Heritage List in , giving the highest international recognition for its global importance in terms of biodiversity.
Outstanding Universal Value is a bit of an abstract concept, but basically refers to sites which are deemed of such an exceptional cultural of natural value that they need to be preserved for the entire humankind and for current and future generations. To become a World Heritage site, countries who have signed up to the Convention the States Parties have to elaborate and formally submit an a nomination, in which they make the case that the proposed site is indeed exceptional but also demonstrate that it has the necessary integrity and legal protection and that there is the capacity and willingness to protect in place to preserve its values in the long term.
The final decision on inscription is made by the World Heritage Committee, the governing body of the Convention, composed of representatives from 21 elected States Parties.
With countries that have adhered to the World Heritage Convention, it is one of the most successful international conservation instruments.
Since its start, the World Heritage List has continued to grow and today boosts terrestrial and marine sites, in countries. Of these, only are natural sites with 31 so-called mixed sites, which are, recognized both for their natural and cultural values. But whereas cultural sites are typically small a monument or perhaps an historic city center , most natural sites on the World Heritage List include vast natural wilderness areas. Together they protect an astonishing million ha of land and sea across the planet, a massive conservation estate comparable to the size of Argentina.
Being inscribed on the World Heritage List is not the culmination of the process but rather a new beginning. By proposing a site to be inscribed on the World Heritage List, States Parties take on a solemn commitment to conserve its values for the entire humankind and all States Parties to the Convention have committed to cooperate to achieve this common goal while fully respecting national sovereignty.
If any noteworthy conservation issue credibly arises, the WHC requests the State Party for information on the issue. Through its decision-making process, the Committee can then request the State Party to take certain measures and to report on their implementation.
The Committee can also request the State Party to invite a monitoring mission to the property in order to look into the concern and to recommend management responses in dialogue with the State Party.
If the Committee considers the conservation values for which the site was inscribed at risk to be lost or irreversibly compromised, it can decide to inscribe the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Currently 46 sites are on this List of World Heritage in Danger, including 19 natural properties, many of which are situated in Africa. The World Heritage Convention monitoring mechanism has been ensuring that States Parties maintain a high conservation standard in their sites.
Encouragingly, major players in the extractive industries have started to respect natural World Heritage sites as unique places. At the World Parks Congress in , the International Council on Mining and Metals ICMM , regrouping many major mining companies in the world, and the oil company Shell made a landmark commitment to refrain from exploring or exploiting oil and minerals inside natural World Heritage sites.
This commitment has been joined recently by other companies such as Total.
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