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Tanzania Forest Conservation Group
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
In partnership with Tanzania Community Forest Conservation Network
TFCG was established in 1985. With over 20 years of experience, we are the largest Tanzanian non- governmental organisation focusing on the conservation of natural forests.Over the years, the TFCG team has found that the most effective way to achieve our mission is through capacity building, advocacy, research, community development and protected area management, in ways that are sustainable and foster participation, co-operation and partnership.
They focus on Tanzania's most important forests: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests. The forests and the plants and animals that they support provide many ecological services including capturing and storing greenhouse gases that might otherwise contribute to climate change; water catchment; biodiversity; pollination; and soil protection. Some of TFCG's programs include:
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Participatory forest management: capacity building for communities to enable them to manage their forest resources more sustainably.
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Community development: many of the areas where TFCG works are extremely remote and the communities are very poor. They provide different kinds of support including training on income generating activities such as improved agriculture, butterfly farming, beekeeping, agroforestry and brick making. They also support communities to get involved with micro-finance. One of our latest projects is piloting mechanisms to channel revenues from the global carbon market to communities.
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Environmental education: raising awareness about the values of Tanzania’s forests; the threats that they face and the ways in which we can conserve them is fundamental to much of what we do. Their work with 140 schools as well as providing information to the general public through print and broadcast media.
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Advocacy: TFCG promotes better policies particular those that favour more equitable distribution of benefits from forests to rural communities.
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Research: They conduct research on the biodiversity of the forests where they work as well as into socio-economic issues related to forest conservation.
TFCG envisages a world in which Tanzanians and the rest of humanity are enjoying the diverse benefits from well conserved, high biodiversity forests.
For more information about TFCG please visit their website at http://www.tfcg.org/index.html
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