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this forest protection, however, varied, and some said it was a project to reduce forestfires, while others said the main reason was in order to attract more rain.64291752Never heard ofREDDKnow that aproject (REDD)will start hereREDD is aboutforest protectionand reducingdeforestationThrough REDDwe will sellcarbon creditsREDD will onlytake our landFigure 22: Local people and awareness of REDD in Kilosa, Tanzania, 201017%, however, stated that through protecting their forest they would eventuallyreceive payments from selling carbon credits and that this protection would reduce thecarbon-dioxide in the atmosphere.A few were skeptical to REDD and TFCG and thought the project would only leadthem to lose access over their land and forests. All mentioning this came from Nyali,and overall villagers in Nyali also had the lowest understanding of REDD, with 45%not knowing what REDD was about. They, however, had in turn the largestpopulation and the largest land size with as much as 11 sub-villages, many of themremotely located. The skepticism was also reflected to some extent when variouspayment types where discussed, and out of the 7% who felt they would not bemotivated to stop using forest products by any type of payment, most of them camefrom Nyali (69%), and overall most of them had a low awareness of REDD.229