By Vienna Leigh | Communications Manager at WeForest
The unique 'mateshi' vegetation of the miombo woodland
While most of the Katanino Forest Reserve is made up of miombo woodland, mateshi is dry evergreen vegetation that covers about 358 ha (8%) of it. The few remaining patches of mateshi are made up of miombo along with epiphytes, mosses, fungi and climbers that make this forest type tangled and almost inaccessible. Mateshi provides a great habitat for birds and mammals such as hornbills, common duikers and monkeys.
The Katanino community receives training in Joint Forest Management
Our project here aims to make sure that the local community feels pride in and responsibility for the forest reserve. To foster this, the WeForest Katanino team held sessions in March and April to train the local people and build their skills and knowledge about sustainable management of the forest. Even the village leaders took part in these popular and well-attended sessions.
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