Natural/Catchment Forest Protection
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Last Modified: 2006-01-23 14:07:29.88">2006-01-23 14:07:29.88
Description:
Natural/catchment forests protection is another mitigation option identified in Tanzania, which will maintain the existing stands of trees/sinks and the proportion of forest products currently in use. This may involve the following activities:
§ The sustainable use of forest resources through the harvesting of branches for food for animals, as well as fallen wood for woodfuel together with some tree cutting in natural forests on village or state lands, at or below the rate of natural regeneration;
§ Improved management for the greater productivity of village forest land. Also improved control against unlicensed felling in these forestlands is important in order to raise village incomes but does not, of course, add to the total supplies. Improved control can also reduce the destructive impacts of indiscriminate felling, such as soil erosion, loss of valuable species, etc.
§ Improved management of and tighter controls of state forests. In the short term, the latter may reduce rural supplies of forest services as well as incomes from those who live off the forest. This income loss may be very significant.
§ Controlled clearing of natural forests for farm or grazing land as part of a sustainable long-term land use strategy. The question of the cutting rate is critical. If the rate is greater than the local capacity to use the wood, or sell it into commercial markets, the surplus will be burned as ?waste?.
§ Forest protection and conservation including the protection of wildlife areas
§ Increased efficiency in forest management, and harvesting.
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