Meru South District - UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative

7.1 Forestry ................................................................................................53
7.1.1 Types of Forests and area under each Forest ...............................53
7.1.2 Status and Trends of Forest Cover in Meru South .......................54
7.1.3 Regulatory and Management Arrangements................................54
7.1.4 Exploitation of Forest Resources for Timber and Non-Timber
Products .................................................................................................54
7.1.5 Key Environmental Issues............................................................55
7.1.6 Proposed Interventions .................................................................55
7.2 Wild life...............................................................................................56
7.2.1 Type of Wildlife and Area under Wildlife ...................................56
7.2.2 Identify Status and Trends of Wildlife Resources........................57
7.2.3 Regulatory and Forms of Wildlife Management..........................57
7.2.4 Priority of Key Environmental Issues ..........................................57
CHAPTER 8: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION .................................................. 58
8.1. Biodiversity Data and Information.....................................................58
8.2 Species Conservation Status................................................................59
8.3 Type of Utilization, Major Beneficiaries and Stakeholders................59
8.4 Regulatory and Institutional Arrangements.........................................59
CHAPTER 9: ENERGY SECTOR............................................................................... 61
9.1 Energy resources.................................................................................61
9.2 Trends in Energy, Production, Consumption, Costs and Projections .62
CHAPTER 10: INDUSTRY, TRADE AND SERVICES............................................ 63
10.1 Industrial Sector.................................................................................63
10.1.1 Type of Industries.......................................................................63
10.2 Trade sector .......................................................................................65
10.3 Services sector ...................................................................................66
CHAPTER 11: TOURISM ............................................................................................ 67
11.1 Type of tourism, attraction and potential ..........................................67
CHAPTER 12: MINING AND QUARRYING............................................................ 68
12.1 Mineral potential................................................................................68
12.2 Status of Mining ................................................................................68
12.3 Sand Harvesting.................................................................................69
CHAPTER 13: ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS...................... 70
13.1 Extent and trends of environmental hazards and disasters................70
CHAPTER 14: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGIES ..... 71
14.1: Status of Environmental Education..................................................71
14.2 Public Awareness and Participation ..................................................72
14.3 Technologies......................................................................................73
CHAPTER 15: ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS........................ 73
15 .1 Types and sources of environmental information ............................74
15.2 Status of environmental information management systems..............75
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