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Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania
implementation of the existing management plans. The METT tool has been adopted by the Forestry and
Beekeeping Division for use as a monitoring method for its network of reserves and is being applied in other sites
outside the Eastern Arc. A summary of the results from the METT assessment of 2004/05 is presented below:
Number of forest sites in each management effectiveness score class in the Eastern Arc Mountains of
Tanzania*
Forest category METT Scores%
Poor Average Good Very good
15-30 31-45 46-60 >60
Central Government Forest Reserve 18 60 6
Local Authority Forest Reserve 4 13 1
Proposed Forest Reserve 13 5
Private forest 2 1 1
Village forest reserve 1 1
TOTAL 35 81 9 1
Percentage 27.8 64.3 7.1 0.8
* note that no Nature Reserves or National Parks were assessed in 2004
METT has also been applied in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park on two separate occasions, with the
assistance of the WWF Tanzania Programme Office. It has also been applied in the management plans for each of
the new Nature Reserves.
Forest Condition assessment
The condition of the forest habitat has been assessed across 30 Forest Reserves within the Eastern Arc in the period
2004/05. A repeat of this forest condition assessment was undertaken in 2009, in a smaller sample of the reserves,
and the results are being analysed. The method entails simply counting the number of cut trees and poles along a
transect through the forest, and generates an idea of the human disturbance in the forest.
Levels of disturbance in terms of cut trees or poles across the reserves of the Eastern Arc Mountains (FBD
2005a)
Reserve
TREES
(above
20cm
dbh)
Total
Area of
Transects
(ha)
Total no.
sampled
trees
Average
old cut
trees
Average
new cut
trees POLES
(below
20 cm
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dbh)
Total
number
of
sampled
poles
Average
of old
cut
poles
Average
of new
cut
poles
Mramba Trees 3 1197 7 2 Poles 2362 31.7 5.7
Kiverenge Trees 2.4 659 53 2.1 Poles 893 59 7.1
Chambogo Trees 5.45 2476 81.7 5.9 Poles 3586 134.7 14.3
Vumari Trees 2 937 118.5 1.5 Poles 1558 79.5 4.5
Mkusu Trees 4.75 1813 47.6 4.2 Poles 2282 54.3 14.7
Mazumbai Trees 1.3 885 0 0 Poles 1042 0 0
Bombo Trees 3.5 1596 135.4 4.3 Poles 1497 72.9 2
West
Ambangulu Trees 0.8 315 7.5 3.8 Poles 633 71.3 2.5
Nilo Trees 6.1 2579 26.6 2.5 Poles 1787 44.1 4.4