Forest inventory report no. 4, Shimba Hills, Mkongani North and Mkongani West
1994
Blackett, H. L.
This report, covering the three contiguous Forest Reserves of Shimba Hills, Mkongani North and Mkongani West (see map 1), is one of a series produced by the Forest Inventory Section of the Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Project (KIFCON) and is based on aerial photo interpretation, mapping and fieldwork carried out during April and May 1992. Forest Inventory was a component of a multi-disciplinary inventory undertaken by Kenya Government with support from the Overseas Development Administration of the U.K. The immediate objectives of KIFCON included determination of conservation priorities and preparation of management recommendations. The wider objectives were to conserve the biologocal diversity, ecological services and productivity of indigenous closed forests in Kenya. In support of these objectives the aim of the Forest Inventory was to provide updated estimates of forest area and the total standing volume by species and habitat, in those areas with potential commercial yields, as the basis for preparation of sustainability timber extraction plans and for input into comprehensive reports detailing the major management issues and proposed management options. (Flint and Harrison). Reconnaissance inventories of the Shimba Hills, Mkongani West were done in 1967 under the Canadian Special Commonwealth Africa Aid Programme by Spartan Air Services Limited in cooperation with the Forestry Department. The Forestry Department carriend out an intensive pre-exploitation inventory in 1973. KIFCON closed prematurely because of withdrawal of British support for the project and the data analysis presented in this report represents the results of a reconnaissance inventory.
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