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

i. Adhere to indigenous knowledge and traditional rules and ways of harvesting
traditional medicine;
ii. Conduct inventory to establish stocking levels;
iii. Promote and support domestication of medicinal plants in collaboration with
local herbalists and traditional healers. Examples of domesticated plants on
the Ulugurus include Maesa lanceolata (Mingutinguti), Myrica salicifolia
(Migeremamondo), Senna petersiana (Mikundekunde), Piper capense
(Ludaha), and Khaya anthotheca (Mkangazi). However, the availability of
seeds is the major constraint;
iv. Improve harvesting, processing and packaging techniques; and
v. Improve rural health services and use of para-medics.
3.3 Type of resource use, value, number of people involved, and how long it
has been occurring.
Since it was not possible to get actual figures on resource values, number of people
involved, and how long it has been occurring, value judgement and experience was
used to get the values as summarised in Table 9.
Table 9: Type of resource use, value, number of people involved, and how long it
has been occurring.
S/N Type of use Relative value Relative number of
people involved
How long it has
been occurring
1 Illegal logging High Few After the ban in
1993
2 Regulated
Low High Since the
Firewood
introduction and
collection
institutionalisation of
JFM in 1994
3 Regulated
Medicinal
plants
collection
High Few Since 1990s
4 Illegal hunting High Few For a long time
3.4 Other Forest-related Activities/uses that have Negative Impacts on the
Eastern Arc Mountain Forests
In Table 10 is a summary of other forest-related activities that have negative impacts
on EAMFs.
Table 10: Other forest-related activities/uses
Resource Use Major locality in the
Eastern Arc Mountains
Remarks
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