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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 ABBREVIATIONS 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 INTRODUCTION 8 Forests and national development 8 Isolation of southern Tanzania miombo woodlands and coastal forests 9 Justification for study area 11 METHODOLOGY 13 Data collection of government records 13 Field Research 15 Mapping of logging roads 15 Data analysis 16 Limitations of methodology 18 BACKGROUND 20 National overview 20 Type of land use 20 Forest and woodland distribution and status 21 Trends in forest and woodland degradation 24 Importance of miombo woodlands and coastal forests to development in Tanzania 25 STUDY AREA OVERVIEW 29 VOLUMES OF ROUND WOOD IN TRADE 32 Timber harvest records 32 Timber trade dynamics south of Rufiji River 33 Shipment of timber across Rufiji River 35 Total volume of timber transported north across Rufiji River 38 Estimated harvest pressure by district 39 SPECIES COMPOSITION OF ROUND WOOD IN TRADE 40 Timber harvest records 40 Comparison of timber harvest records between districts 41 Timber moving north of Rufiji River 42 Species composition of timber products 46 Changes in species composition 47 Size of harvested timber 51 Declining sizes of sawn wood 54 1
HARVEST AREAS, DESTINATIONS, MARKETS AND SEASONALITY 55 Major harvest areas in Rufiji District 55 Major harvest areas in Lindi Region 57 Changes in harvest areas 58 Major markets and trade routes 59 Transport across the Rufiji River 61 Vehicle types used for timber trade 62 Seasonal variations in timber trade 65 Trade in key timber species 68 TRADE IN CHARCOAL AND OTHER TIMBER PRODUCTS 73 Introduction 73 Volumes of charcoal traded 74 Charcoal shipments 75 Sources, trade routes and markets for charcoal 75 Other forest products in trade 77 SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TIMBER TRADE 78 Gender of forest product traders 78 Age of forest product traders 79 Education levels of forest product traders 80 DISCUSSION 81 Evidence of linkages between poverty and quality of woodland/forest resources 81 Major challenges 82 RECOMMENDATIONS 89 Costs of not taking action and benefits of taking action 89 Ongoing monitoring of the timber trade 89 Capacity building 90 Empowerment of the local communities 96 Improving forest management plans 96 Additional recommendations 98 REFERENCES 100 ANNEXES 107 Annex 1 Tanzania industrial plantations, 2001 107 Annex 2 Regulatory and institutional framework of the forestry sector 107 Annex 3 Miombo woodlands of Tanzania 112 Annex 4. Description of study area 113 Annex 5. Sample checkpoint form for recording movement of timber products 119 2
Page 2 and 3: Published by TRAFFIC East/Southern
Page 6 and 7: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study was mad
Page 8 and 9: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The close relatio
Page 10 and 11: guidance from central and district
Page 12 and 13: The National Forest Policy (1998) s
Page 14 and 15: However, significant changes in dev
Page 16 and 17: METHODOLOGY This study was conducte
Page 18 and 19: Field Research Research assistants
Page 20 and 21: Table 2 Types of analyses made amon
Page 22 and 23: south bank (1270 m 3 ). Therefore,
Page 24 and 25: commenced in 1986 have converted th
Page 26 and 27: The majority of reserved forests an
Page 28 and 29: Degradation of forests and deforest
Page 30 and 31: medicinal plants for curing illness
Page 32 and 33: STUDY AREA OVERVIEW The study area
Page 34 and 35: The coastal forests found in the st
Page 36 and 37: Data on harvest licences covering a
Page 38 and 39: Figure 8 Sawn wood and logs shipped
Page 40 and 41: eported to be very low, with most s
Page 42 and 43: ound wood from the study area. Over
Page 44 and 45: Species harvested in 2001, but not
Page 46 and 47: checkpoint records from Kibiti, stu
Page 48 and 49: Figure 13 Main species processed by
Page 50 and 51: Two species, Swartzia madagascarens
Page 52 and 53: melanoxylon (Class I), Milicia exce
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A few species have shown particular
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The frequency distributions of leng
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HARVEST AREAS, DESTINATIONS, MARKET
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Major harvest areas in Lindi Region
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licences show how MI (Ltd.), the la
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Figure 26 Off-road logging truck ro
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Table 25 Total number of vehicles r
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Seasonal variations in timber trade
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Figure 35 Total timber shipments fr
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Figure 37 Volumes (m 3 ) of Pteroca
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Hymenaea verrucosa (Gum copal tree,
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Figure 43 Volumes (m 3 ) of Dalberg
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Charcoal shipments Official data on
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Figure 47 Quantities of charcoal (b
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Table 32 Proportion of selected woo
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DISCUSSION Evidence of linkages bet
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fees, applying ‘minimum breath he
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saw millers and traders from Dar es
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are indicated on the licences. For
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RECOMMENDATIONS Costs of not taking
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Table 35. Monitoring indicators inc
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DESCRIPTION OF INDICATOR BASELINE D
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DESCRIPTION OF INDICATOR BASELINE D
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(Figure 51). Regulatory options to
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Alternative energy sources Accounti
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Anon. (1999g). Tanzania Country Str
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De Waal, D. (2001). Setting Precend
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Milliken, J. (1999). Youth migrants
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ANNEXES Annex 1 Tanzania industrial
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However, forests outside Forest Res
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arks at TZS 2000 (USD 1.95) per kg
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mm and relatively unreliable. The h
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Coast Region has a total forest are
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Table 43 Sectoral contribution to L
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Annex 5. Sample checkpoint form for
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