Development of Sustainable Forest Use Strategies - Eastern Arc ...

3.1.1.2 The Forest Act No. 14 of 2002
Section 26(a)-(s) of the Forest Act prohibits the following activities in forest reserves,
except for people with legal concessions, licenses or permits (URT, 2002:1198-99):
� Cutting down, felling, digging up or removing any tree;
� Digging up or removing any protected wild plant;
� Harvesting, taking or removing any other forest product, but subject to the
provisions of the Beekeeping Act, 2002;
� Entering, perambulating for purposes of tourism or camping within a forest
reserve;
� Taking and removing any rock, stones, sand, shells or soil;
� Undertaking any mining activities;
� Occupying or residing on any land;
� Clearing, cultivating or breaking up for cultivation or any other purpose, any
land;
� Cutting, burning, uprooting, damaging or destroying any vegetation;
� Sowing or planting any crops, trees or other vegetation;
� Cutting or re-opening any saw-pit or work place;
� Erecting any buildings or other structures;
� Allowing any livestock to enter or graze or depasture in any national forest
reserve;
� Hunting, fishing, using or being in possession of any trap, snare, net, bow and
arrow, gun, poison or explosive substance used or capable of being used for
the purposes of hunting or fishing;
� Carrying out any research for which a research permit is required; and
� Collecting any honey barrel, hive or other receptacle for the purpose of
collecting honey or beeswax.
But, the question is, who is there in the field to enforce all these? There is lack of
monitoring capability.
Stated Economic Uses
Section 49(1) of the Forest Act, 2002 allows permits/licenses to be granted for the
following activities in forest reserves (URT, 2002:1198-99, 1229-30):
� Felling or extracting timber for domestic commercial use, export, mining
purposes or for prospecting and exploration of mineral resources;
� Gathering and taking away specified forest produce;
� Plucking, picking, taking parts or extracts of any protected plant for purposes
of research or production or manufacture of any medicine or other product;
� Erecting buildings or other structures;
� Operating sawmills and such other industrial processes and machinery as
may be prescribed;
� Constructing roads, bridges, paths, waterways, railways or runways;
� Camping, operating tourist facilities and undertaking activities connected with
tourism, such as tourism photographic (sic.);
� Exporting such other forest produce as may be prescribed;
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