Kenya's Indigenous Forests | Status, managemnet and onservation, IUCN forest conservation Programme
1995
Peter Wass | Hodgson,nick, Ndua, Josphat, Blackett, Hugh, Davies Glyn,,Rayner Michael, Emerton Lucy, Mogaka Hezron, Thomson Micheal, wily Liz, Oglethorpe judy, Githitho Anthony, Ferguson Wankje, Daniel Mbengei, Mbaya John, Gathaara Gideon, Kihuki clement, Njagi Titus, Kigomo Bernard , Kimotori Charles, Ochieng' E.A, Kamanga chrispus, Omwami Raymond, Luukkannen Olavi, John Fanshawe, Robertson John, Luke Quentin and Berghe vanden Edward.
The present document, which has resulted from that conclusion, has two main purposes: provide an overview of the current status, use, value and management of Kenya's indigenous forests: and to act as a helpfull tool in the process of improving their coservation and management. Present the geogoraphical background and basic data about the indigenous forests of Kenya, including types and areas. three major functions and values of the forests are then described and assessed, Biodiversity, environmental services, and wood products respectively. People and forest, issue of population pressure is examined, since many of the problems facing the managemnet and conservation of the indigenous forest derive from the growing numbers of people requiring access to natural resources, areview of the differing categories of forest users and the way they utilise forest products and resources. the argument of conserving areas of land under indigenous forest cover will increasingly have to be justified inter alia in financial and economic terms. Direct and indirect policy and legal issues affecting the forest arereviewed, which provides the framework for three subsequent chapters dealing with forest management. An overview of the intitutions responsible for the forests, or an interest in them, analatical look at a number of key management aspects which need to be addressed, propossed guidlines for future natural management a flexible mathodology to assist in determining priorities between diferent forests according to a variaty of creteria. results of a national-level prioritisation exercise undertaken in mid-1994. Areas of indigenous forest, forest biodiversity,timber, polewood and fuelwood, pressures on forest, forest management
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