Take a look at the perspective of Kikole villagers 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, Tanzania is one of the 17 mega-diverse countries, but its financial resources make it one 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.
It’s from here that the FSC-certified African blackwood will flow.
Context
Take a look at the perspective of Kikole villagers 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, Tanzania is one of the 17 mega-diverse countries, but its financial resources make it one 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.
It’s from here that the FSC-certified African blackwood will flow.
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