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those districts having LAFRs it often serves as a major revenue source eitherfrom charcoal or timber extraction.3. Village Land Forest Reserves (VLFRs) are forest reserves established forforests within village boundaries and subsequently managed by the VillageCouncil on behalf of the villagers. After having completed a certain process(see PFM guidelines below) and the area is declared a VLFR a legal transferof rights and responsibilities is made to the village government. Depending onthe management plan and by-laws attached, and whether or not the reserve isfor protection or production, villagers will then gain formal legal rights toharvest timber and forest products and can collect and retain all of the forestroyalties from various forest products. Previously they would be governed bynational and district regulations on harvesting of reserved tree species andregulations concerning timber and charcoal extraction, as would they have toshare the royalties collected with either the local or central government. Theyare now also allowed to arrest and fine those not following their rulesgoverning the VFR (Akida and Blomley 2007).4. Community Forest Reserves (CFRs) are also found on village land and willwork in the same way as a VLFR except that it does not include the wholevillage as such, but rather a community or subgroup within the village. ACFRs can for instance be managed by a group of beekeepers, charcoalproducers or timber operators.5. Private Forests can be either small-scale production of trees on private land,such as households establishing small woodlots on their land, or it can belarge-scale private forestry enterprises which are leasing either village orgeneral land for the purpose of planting trees, in most cases for timber orpoles.6. Forests on general land concerns non-gazetted or non-reserved forests on theland category general land, as stated by the Land Acts. These forests are underthe jurisdiction of the FBD. Forests on general land, which in practice have nolegal protection but rather open-access use rights and insecure land tenure,constitute 51% of all of Tanzanias´ forest land and is the main areas wheredeforestation and forest degradation takes place (Akida and Blomley 2007).However, such numbers varies immensely, depending on the definition used.94