Clusa-natural resource management

CLUSA-NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

VILLAGER FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

FROM FIVE AREAS OF CHIULUKIRE LOCAL FOREST,

EASTERN PROVINCE, ZAMBIA



Fieldwork: Oct-Nov 1999

Presented back to villages: March 2000

CLUSA Facilitators:

Samuel Simute

Botany Hangombe

Cornelious Nkhata

Litea Minyoi

Doreen Simoonga

Forestry Department personnel:

Enock Muwaya

Kapambwe F.M.
Compiled by:

Cecilia Polansky

CHIULUKIRE LOCAL FOREST VILLAGE FOREST RESOURCES -- CONTENTS

1. BACKGROUND 1

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE FOREST AND ITS MANAGEMENT 1

TOPOGRAPHY, VEGETATION, SOILS, CLIMATE 1

LAND TENURE AND USE RIGHTS 2

TRADITIONAL LAND AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION: 2

STATE LAND AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FOREST DEPARTMENT: 2

CURRENT MANAGEMENT 3

ORGANIZATION OF VILLAGES INTO GROUPS FOR PURPOSES OF MANAGEMENT AND FACILITATION 3

3. BRIEF SETTLEMENT AND FOREST USE HISTORY OF THE FIVE FOREST VILLAGE GROUPS 4

4. TABLES DESCRIBING VILLAGE POPULATION, LITERACY, OCCUPATIONS, LIVESTOCK 8

TABLE 1. POPULATIONS, LITERACY, AND MIGRATION OF VILLAGES INTERVIEWED 8

AREA 8

TABLE 2. ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES OF VILLAGES AROUND CHIULUKIRE FOREST 9

TABLE 3. LI VESTOCK CLAIMED BY VILLAGES AROUND CHIULUKIRE FOREST 9

5. TABLES DESCRIBING TIMBER, FIREWOOD, CONSTRUCTION, AND CHARCOAL SPECIES, STATUS, AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE FOREST BY VILLAGE AREA 10

TABLE 4. SAWTIMBER SPECIES, RANKING, AND STATUS IN CHIULUKIRE 11

TABLE 5. CHARCOAL SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 11

TABLE 6. FIREWOOD SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 12

TABLE 7. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 12

6. TABLES DESCRIBING NONWOOD FOREST TREE PRODUCTS 13

TABLE 8. FRUIT TREE SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 13

TABLE 9. HONEY TREE (BEE FORAGE) SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 14

TABLE 10. FODDER TREE SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 14

TABLE 11. MEDICINE TREE SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 15

TABLE 12. WOODCARVING TREE SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 15

7. TABLES DESCRIBING NONTREE FOREST PRODUCTS 16

TABLE 14. WILDLIFE SPECIES AND RANKING IN CHIULUKIRE 16

TABLE 15. WILDLIFE SPECIES FOUND IN CHIULUKIRE -- NONRANKED 16

TABLE 16. CATERPILLAR AND INSECT SPECIES FOUND IN CHIULUKIRE -- NONRANKED 17

TABLE 17. MUSHROOM SPECIES FOUND IN CHIULUKIRE -- NONRANKED 17

8. TABLES DESCRIBING NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT COLLECTION 18

TABLE 18. FRUIT COLLECTION INFORMATION 18

TABLE 19. HONEY COLLECTION INFORMATION 19

TABLE 20. BROOM COLLECTION INFORMATION 19

TABLE 21. MUSHROOM COLLECTION INFORMATION 20

TABLE 22. CATERPILLAR COLLECTION INFORMATION 22

TABLE 23. OTHER FOREST PRODUCT COLLECTION INFORMATION: 23

CLUSA-NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

VILLAGER FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

FROM FIVE AREAS OF CHIULUKIRE LOCAL FOREST,

EASTERN PROVINCE, ZAMBIA
Fieldwork: Oct.-Nov. 1999