Frontier Tanzania Environmental Research REPORT 110 ...

Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve
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3. STUDY SITE
3.1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Name:
Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve
Kisarawe District, Coastal Region, Tanzania
Area: 3550 hectares (35.5 km 2 )
Status:
Managed by:
Tenure:
Protective Forest Reserve
Gazetted in the 1930s (Lagrstedt, 1995)
Declaration Order 306 of 24/6/1954; superseded by Cap. 389 – supp. 59 of 1959,
p.62
Kisarawe District with donor support from Misitu Yetu Project, CARE International
and Wildlife Society of Tanzania (WCST)
Government land under district authority control
Maps: Ordnance survey topographic maps 1: 50 000 series Y742 (DOS 422)
Sheet 186/3
Kisarawe
Edition 5-TSD/OSD 1987
3.2 LOCATION
Lat/Long:
6 o 55’ – 7 o 00’ S 39 o 01’ – 39 o 05’ E
UTM: 05020 – 05094 92275 - 92353
Elevation:
120 –280 meters above sea level
Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve is situated in the Pugu Hills, approximately 20 km south-west of Dar es
Salaam and within 1 km of Pugu Forest Reserve (24 km 2 ) (Figures 2 and 3). Together the two reserves
form part of what was once a much larger forest block extending to within 10 km of Dar es Salaam.
The TAZARA railway goes through the reserve, with a nearby station at Vigama on thewestern edge
of the reserve.
3.3 PHYSICAL FEATURES AND LAND USE
3.3.1 SOILS
Red to brown sandy-clay soils overlay kaolinitic sandstone, with of pH range 5-6 predominate.
3.3.2 CATCHMENT VALUES
One permanent stream arises from the forest reserve and provides a water supply for some of the local
people. In the past (when forest was more extensive on the Pugu Hills) streams arising from the area
used to supply all the water needed in Dar es Salaam.
Frontier-TanzaniaCoastal Forest Research Programme