Usambara larger Landscape Restoration

Restoring & Reforesting

Our holistic, grassroots approach embraces the complexity of reforestation, recognising that true restoration goes beyond the act of planting. It involves caring for the land, supporting biodiversity, and ensuring that the voices of those who have lived with these forests for generations are heard and respected. We are beliving on a bottom-up approach where the locals who are working with have sounds in everything we are doing in the Usambara Mountains and Tanzania at a larger.

This is to say, Usambara Biodiversity project was designed through a participatory approach where the local communities formulated the goals and objectives. The women-centered project involves over 3000 local indigenous women from different tribes representing 500,000 community members, with the leaders and those involved in fieldwork almost entirely female and indigenous. 

Restoring & Reforesting

Our holistic, grassroots approach embraces the complexity of reforestation, recognising that true restoration goes beyond the act of planting. It involves caring for the land, supporting biodiversity, and ensuring that the voices of those who have lived with these forests for generations are heard and respected.

Through the multi-faceted approach, the project aims not only to reforest the land and provide fuelwood for the communities but also to increase respect and empowerment for women and girls in the area. The project also uplifts the indigenous worldview of living in alignment withnature through valuing, renewing and passing down Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

Prepared by Yassin Madiwa; CEO & FoU Core Founda; Usambara Biodiversity Conservation