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less are also highly dependent on forest resources, in particular on fire wood, which istheir primary source of energy. The need for an added income seemed to be a majormotivational factor for them though and the promise of such probably played a bigpart in 85% of this group being in favour of the project. In terms of location we seethat both infrastructure and the current resource regime in place have affected theactivities of the villagers, as supported by our resource regime model, and this issomething which we will come back to. What we also found to play a part in thepreference of villagers were the level of knowledge, where Nyali with the overalllowest knowledge on REDD also were the most sceptic. However, there are manyother reasons which can contribute to this scepticism.Overall, the villagers seemed to have embraced REDD+ as a legitimate way ofreducing their forest use and as a way of improving their livelihood conditions.However, much of the task of ensuring the continued acceptance lies in the capacityof the management authority in achieving a management system which is both fairand seen as legitimate among the villagers.235