Take a look at the perspective of Kikole village from their forest in Tanzania. This is a short piece of footage involving representatives from Kikole village forest reserve, spoken in Swahili with translation into English.
Lying just to the south of the equator, Tanzania is one of the two major blackwood-exporting countries. In terms of biological wealth it is one of the 17 mega-diverse countries (and in the top ten for plant diversity), but its financial resources place it in the bottom tier of the world's poorest countries, with widespread urban and rural poverty.
Currently Lindi Region is one of the most heavily forested parts of Tanzania with internationally-important large patches of Coastal Forest, most of which is poorly protected, interspersed with more widely occuring Miombo Woodlands. This is where we are focusing our work.
