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GLOSSARY
Community Participation – Empowerment of the community to identify their own problems, seek their own solution
and implement their own decisions (MNRT 1997).
Community-based conservation – means conservation of resources based on the participation of the local community’s
(1998c).
Forest – means all land bearing a vegetative association dominated by trees of any size, exploitable or not, and capable
of producing wood or other products of exerting influence on the climate or water regime or providing shelter to
livestock and wildlife (MNRT 1998a)
Forest products – includes all wood and non-wood forest products (MNRT 1998a).
Forest reserve – is a forest area, either for production of timber and other forest produce or protective for the protection
of forests and important water catchment, controlled under the Forest Ordnance and declared by the Minister (MNRT
1998a).
Industrial forest plantation – means an area of land planted with trees for industrial use (MNRT 1998a).
Local authority – includes a district council, city council, municipal council, town council, local council and village
council (MNRT 1998a).
Public land – means all land in Tanzania whether granted, customary or unoccupied (MLHSD 1997).
Wildlife – means those species of wild and indigenous animals and plants, and their constituent habitats and
ecosystems: to be found in Tanzania, as well as those exotic species that have been introduced to Tanzania and that are
temporarily maintained in captivity or have become established in the wild (MNRT 1998c).
Wildlife corridors – means areas used by wildlife animals when migrating from one part of the ecosystem to another,
daily, weekly, monthly, annually in search of basic requirements such as water, food, space and habitat (MNRT
1998c).
Wildlife Management area – means an area declared by the Minister to be so and set aside by village government for
the purpose of biological natural resource conservation (MNRT 1998c).