Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Sustainable Management of the Mara River Basin

Abstract

Following international agreements on environmental management and sustainable development, including the Rio Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, both Kenya and Tanzania ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and developed National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). In addition, the EAC developed a Protocol on Environment and Natural Resources Management (ENRM). This BSAP is one of the efforts of the EAC, in cooperation with WWF-ESARPO and USAID-EA, to achieve the objectives of the CBD and of the provisions of the protocol for ENRM with respect to biodiversity conservation and management in the MRB, the transboundary natural resources which are shared by Kenya and Tanzania