Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Public land forest
Uluguru North
Forest Reserve
Boundary
Uluguru North
Catchment
Forest Reserve
Forest 1955
Tandai Village
Forest 1977
Forest 2000
Note:
This area is closely co-incident with that of the focal project area as it is here where
most conl icts between biodiversity conservation and human use of the land occur.
Source:
WCST Uluguru Mountains Biodiversity Conservation Project.
Figure 3.3
Loss of the non-reserved forest outside the Uluguru North
Catchment Forest Reserve, 1955-2000
photographs), but had been largely deforested by 2000, apart from some
remnants (Burgess et al., 2002a; Figure 3.3). The project attempted to
preserve these fragments by building them into the village land use pattern
as 'Village Forest Reserves'. In the Phase 3 project there will be a greater
spread of interventions around the mountain, both north (DOF/WCST)
and south (GEF/CARE), and more funding for the conservation of the
Forest Reserves that contain the highest levels of biodiversity.
Scale is appropriate
The Ulugurus are a large and topographically
complex range of mountains and are occupied mainly by one tribe, the
Luguru, although an inl ux of other tribes is noted. Biologically there is a
considerable similarity in the l ora and fauna of the forests across the entire
mountain range, with the major dif erences being due to altitude. Due to
these factors it makes sense to consider a large-scale ICDP design across
the entire Uluguru landscape. During Phase 2 support there was a mis-
match between the scale of the project planning and monitoring (covering
