Diana Kimbute

The Strategic Conservation of Threatened Pare Mountains Reserve, Tanzania

Women's Meeting.

Secondary school students in their tree nursery.

Tree nursery.

Town/RegionCountryCategoriesDate
Pare Mountains ReserveTanzania, United Republic ofAfrica, Biodiversity Forests Community26 Oct 2006

The Pare Mountains (PM) is part of the Eastern Arc of Africa, one of the threatened world’s twenty-five biodiversity hotspots.

One of the conservation problems in the PM is the lack of awareness of the values of the mountains within the local communities. The project educates the community on the importance of conservation of the PM Reserve and mobilize them in integrating conservation activities in their daily lives via providing environmental education to PM communities, 5 Primary and Secondary schools in Same District, Initiate conservation clubs & groups and reforestation programmes and encourage the above groups to take control and responsibility for safe guarding the reserve. These conservation activities will eventually restore and conserve the Pare Mountains Reserve especially Same and Mahuu springs.

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News Update: March 2006

Since I received RSG last year, I have carried out various project activities that met the original project aims. The working team and linkage contacts have been initiated. Consultative meetings and dialogue with leaders and target groups in the community identified degraded areas in the water source where a pilot nursery for trees was established to carry out re-vegetation and demonstration to locals. However due to prolonged dry period in the country the demonstration nurseries are yet to mature.

Providing environmental education to Local people nearby Pare Mountains .We teach environmental studies and participatory activities on conservation of water sources to local schools and local people around the reserved areas. We have started conservation clubs in local schools and community around the water source and conducting conservation competitions among the clubs. Each club is conducting drama and art competitions on various topics on conservation. Our main goals for these activities are to introduce young student to out door and to start to interact with natural world. This will have an impact in the entire community for well being of our project

Final Report

Read more about the activities undertaken and findings of this project in the final report below.

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