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MOZAMBIQUE 1997. Support to Community Forestry and Wildlife Management

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Tule tree

A fully grown Tule tree (Chlorophora excelsa), a very valuable wood. The land around the tree has been cleared to prevent bush fires from burning it. In this area Tule wood is used only for local needs, such as making furniture, although it could create more income if sold to timber merchants. The project aims to make the local population aware of the true value of the timber in the forest. - - Support for Community Forestry and Wildlife Management: GCP/MOZ/056/NET. The project Support for Community Forestry and Wildlife Management" started its activities in 1997 and will run for a period of five years to assist Mozambique institutions in the development and implementation of their policies for community involvement in sustainable forest management.

The project has three components, directly related to its immediate objectives. It aims to:

-Motivate rural communities and make them capable of caring for and managing the natural resources that surround them for their own benefit;
-Provide an institutional environment for the implementation of community forestry and wildlife management by strengthening the forest services at national, provincial and local levels with regard to the legal status and land use rights of the communities; and
-Provide formal forestry education and strengthen forestry research to support the implementation of community-based natural resources management.

Field activities are concentrated in the Provinces of Maputo and Nampula, those with the highest deforestation rates in the country. The deforestation is mainly caused by poor agricultural productivity associated with high population growth, forest fires and high demand for fuelwood both in urban and rural areas. The local communities are being supported through the Provincial Forest and Wildlife Services so they can gradually assume the management of the Narini Community Forest, comprising an area of 12 000 ha.

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