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Advising, communicating, lobbying, challenging, training...
The Tanzania Forest Conservation Group’s advocacy programme aims to promote a more effective policy environment for forest conservation and improve forest governance as well as responding to specific issues where areas with critical biodiversity come under threat.
TFCG has participated in the formulation of the 1998 Tanzania National Forest Policy. Some of the key changes in this policy include the empowerment of local communities to participate in the management of forest reserves. TFCG continues to lobby actively for this policy to be fully implemented and for real benefits to flow to the communities that participate.
TFCG is also an active partner in the Mama Misitu campaign. This campaign aims to address illegal logging in the Coastal Forests and to improve forest governance more generally. It was launched by Nobel Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai in early 2008. Illegal logging in Tanzania’s coastal forests has been linked with corruption and other significant governance shortfalls which have resulted in as much as 96 % of potential government revenue not being collected and the gradual commercial extinction of many tree species in the Coastal Forests. By shining a spotlight on these issues the campaign aims to make widespread illegal logging a thing of the past. |
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