TNRF receives funding from GTZ to prepare a civil-society response to a report on illegal logging by TRAFFIC

TNRF has received a local grant from GTZ to plan and develop a major communications and advocacy initiative in response to the report by TRAFFIC on Illegal logging - Milledge, S., Gelvas, I. & Ahrends A. 2006 Forestry, Governance and National Development: Lessons Learned from a Logging Boom in Southern Tanzania. TRAFFIC, MNRT & DPG.

The report details how governance, forestry and national development are interlinked, but their relationship has not been well documented. This report endeavours to set out the immense valueof forest resources to the Tanzanian people. It describes how current policy, as set out in the formal laws and regulations governing the management of these resources, was systematically being manipulated by domestic and foreign private sector interests in concert with senior Tanzanian and foreign government officials. The report continues to portray how, consequently, the forests were being depleted current at a rate that meant that they would not be available to contribute significantly to the livelihoods of future generations. In addition, there were massive revenue-collection shortfalls at every level of government and significant, long-lasting negative effects on the environment. The report goes on to propose a series of measures that would help assure that Tanzania’s invaluable and irreplaceable forestry resources will be well managed for the benefit of present and future generations.

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