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    IMPLICATION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TUMBATU MARINE CONSERVATION AREAS TO NEIGHBORING LOCAL COMMUNITIES. ZANZIBAR
    (SUZA, 2021-10-01) ALI KHAMIS SHAFI
    Marine governance and protection become the one among the important sector to bring about sustainability on the oceans. Many studies reported that there is a socio-ecological trap where most of Marine Conservation Areas are biological success but social failure. This study examines the implication for Establishment of Marine Con-servation Areas base on Tumbatu Marine Conservation area (TUMCA). It is the one among six official gazzeted MCAs in Zanzibar. As a part of the world, these MCAs comply with the sustainable development goal 14 (life under water). This study report that, community are optimistic with the establishment of Marine Conservation Area and they have the strong Indigenous knowledge that can be used in integration to the modern education in establishment of strong relationship between local community with their surrounding nature. However, this study reveal that the involvement of local communities on the initiation process to evaluation still have challenges which need conflict resolution mechanism. In addition, this study reported that local coastal communities depend natural to the ocean and any stress to fishing practice will increase the life cost as 61% of the coastal communities depend on fishing as their best livelihood alternative. The community perception survey, Focus group discussion and key informant interview reported that communities have low adaptive capacity while environmental problem increasing sensitivity and exposure. This re-search insisted on the mutual integration between indigenous knowledge (IK) and convectional science knowledge (CSK).