East Usambara Forest Conservation Project
/ 2003

Since 1993 TFCG have been providing environmental education and support for tree planting in the lowland East Usambara Mountains of Muheza District. The project has assisted villagers to plant over one million trees as an alternative source of firewood for villagers and as a source of cash income. TFCG have also assisted three villages to establish village forest reserves to protect forest fragments on village land. These remaining forest fragments are critical to the long term sustainability of forest dependent species in the East Usambaras as they provide a corridor between the forests within government reserves otherwise isolated by agricultural land