{"id":2371,"date":"2019-07-30T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2021-07-11T22:29:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T20:29:06","slug":"forest-management-in-mlele-bkz-which-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/forest-management-in-mlele-bkz-which-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest surveys measure impact of ADAP&#8217;s projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-6a00a37e500b5 light\" style=\"background-repeat:repeat;background-position:left top;background-attachment:scroll;background-size:auto;\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-column-inner fsn-6a00a37e501f6 light\"><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a00a37e503a6\">\n<p>Within the framework of ADAP projects, Dr. Urs Bloesch of Adansonia Consulting conducted in 2018 a vegetation inventory of the Mlele Beekeeping Zone (BKZ) and in 2020 a baseline study of the Rungwa River Forest Reserve and the Kululu Village Forest.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/projet-inyonga\/\">Mlele Beekeeping Zone &#8211; Community-based management of the Mlele beekeeping zone and livelihoods support, 2002-2020.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2482 size-large alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/miombo_rainy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/miombo_rainy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/miombo_rainy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/miombo_rainy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/miombo_rainy-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/miombo_rainy.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Objective: detect possible changes in the vegetation since the surveys of Mwangulango in 2004, and Kayombo, Mpinga, Natai in 2013, and assess new threats.<\/p>\n<p>Actions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13 Vegetation plots were surveyed during this assessment.<\/li>\n<li>Two vegetation transects of approximately 10km in length each were delineated<\/li>\n<li>800 Vegetation points were sampled using the point-centered quarter method (PCQM).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These 2018 vegetation surveys enabled the completion of the previous inventory of trees and shrubs.\u00a0The inventory now includes a total of 123 trees\/shrubs with their scientific and Konongo names.<\/p>\n<p>The study identified not more than twenty-eight anthropogenic or human-related disturbances in an inventoried area of \u200b\u200bapproximately 160ha.\u00a0About 80% of the disturbances occurred in the lowlands, close to the main road between Inyonga to Mpanda.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The habitats of Miombo de la Mlele BKZ are well protected.\u00a0No recent sign of poaching was detected and no logging happened in the last five years (&#8230;), particularly because of the community management of the beekeeping area, regular patrols, but also the support for beekeeping activities and the awareness campaign carried out by the project.\u201d<\/em> Dr. Urs Bloesch, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Vegetation-survey-2018-Mlele-BKZ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Study download.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/rungwa-corridor-project\/\">Rungwa River and Kululu Baseline Study &#8211; Community-based management project of the Rungwa corridor forests, 2018-2028.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2481 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7460-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7460-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7460-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7460-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7460-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Urs Bloesch conducted the forest study in the Rungwa River Forest Reserve and the Kululu Northern corridor last October, supported by Matana Levi &#8211; ADAP&#8217;s livelihoods and natural resources officer, Dicksoni Malembeka &#8211; ADAP&#8217;s VGS and ecological monitoring supervisor, Godfrey Sungura &#8211; VGS from Majojoro , Fredy Masanja &#8211; DFO Sikonge district, and Paulo Rugola Benedicto &#8211; TFS forester from the Mlele District.<\/p>\n<p>The report will be available in summer 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In this English-spoken video, Dr. Bloesch presents the transect method, specially adapted for large areas like the Rungwa River (2100km<sup>2<\/sup>) area, and Kululu (880km<sup>2<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2371-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"933\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/video_transects_forest_2020.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/video_transects_forest_2020.mp4\">https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/video_transects_forest_2020.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the framework of ADAP projects, Dr. Urs Bloesch of Adansonia Consulting conducted in 2018 a vegetation inventory of the Mlele Beekeeping Zone and in 2020 a baseline study of the Rungwa River Forest Reserve and the Kululu Village Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expertise-and-research","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}