Downloads and Links

Downloads

Here you can access reports and GIS data for the Eastern Arc Mountains.

1) Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund

2) Eastern Arc Strategy

3) General Eastern Arc Mountains

4) Mountain Blocks

a. North Pare
b. South Pare
c. West Usambara
d. East Usambara
e. Nguu
f. Nguru
g. Uluguru
h. Ukaguru
i. Rubeho
j. Malundwe
k. Mahenge
l. Udzungwa

If you have any documents or links to relevant organisations suitable for this website that are not yet listed, please send an email with the details to the Executive Director at: eamcef@easternarc.or.tz

There are also links to various organisations working in the Eastern Arc Mountains.

Downloads - Eastern Arc Mountains - General

• Portfolio of projects of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund in East Africa. 
• Map of the Eastern Arc and Coastal Forests Hotspot.
• Local Benefits Case Study Tanzania Biodiversity

• Pangani Basin Water Payments for Environmental Services (summary).
• Pangani Basin Water Payments for Environmental Services (full report).
• Pangani Basin Water Values report (summary).
• Pangani Basin Water Values report (full report).
• GIS data for the Eastern Arc Mountains (general layers - see mountain blocks for specific data to those areas).
• Inventory of Payments for Environmental Services opportunities in Tanzania.
• Community Based Forest Management Guidelines.
• Status of Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania.
• CEPF EAMCEF Sustainable Finance Strategy
• The Herpetofauna of Mountains of Tanzania
  

Forest Health Monitoring Project Eastern Arc Mountains, click here to download report. (PDF)

• Biodiversity conservation and sustainable resource management in Eastern Arc (pdf)
• Eastern Arc Summary article (pdf)
• The Biological Importance of Tanzania (pdf)
• Global 200 Ecoregions in Tanzania (pdf)
• A Political Ecology of State Forest Policy and Practice in Mainland Tanzania, 1961-1998

Catchment Forest Summary Reports.

• Assessment of the condition of the Catchment Forest Reserves, a botanical appraisal, Tanga Region. Lovett, J.C. & T. Pócs. 1993. (Click here to download report).
• Assessment of the condition of the Catchment Forest Reserves, a botanical appraisal, Arusha Region. Lovett, J.C. & T. Pócs. 1993. (Click here to download report).
• Assessment of the condition of the Catchment Forest Reserves, a botanical appraisal, Morogoro Region. Lovett, J.C. & T. Pócs. 1993. (Click here to download report).
• Assessment of the condition of the Catchment Forest Reserves, a botanical appraisal, Iringa Region. Lovett, J.C. & T. Pócs. 1993. (Click here to download report).
• Assessment of the condition of the Catchment Forest Reserves, a botanical appraisal, Kilimanjaro Region. Lovett, J.C. & T. Pócs. 1993. (Click here to download report).

Eastern Arc Mountains Conference 1997 Proceedings - Journal of East African Natural History 1998.

Click here to view list of individual papers available for downloading.Click here to download Introductions (using WinZip)Click here to download Part I - Status and Biodiversity (zip/pdf)

Click here to download Part II - Sociological and Management Papers (zip/pdf)

Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania.

(Click here to view a summary of activities in the Eastern Arc.)

Eastern Arc Mountains - Economic Value

• FBD Policy Brief Catchment Forests (pdf)
• Resource economic analysis of Catchment Forest Reserves in Tanzania.

Links - Eastern Arc Mountains - General

• Government of the United Republic of TanzaniaPolicies - this website provides downloads of government policies, including the new forest policy.
• Eastern Arc Mountains Information Source - this website provides detailed information on the Eastern Arc Mountains as a whole.
• University of York - Dr Jonathon Lovett has studied the biodiversity in the Eastern Arc Mountains for many years.
• Centre for Applied Biodiversity Science - have an interest in the Eastern Arc Mountains.
• The Chicago Field Museum - Bill Stanley has been working with biologists from the University of Dar es Salaam, and more recently Tanzania National Parks, on the small mammals (shrews, bats, rodents, elephant shrews) of the montane regions of Tanzania. The major geographical emphasis of this research has been the Eastern Arc Mountains. Using a system of systematic surveys, Stanley and his colleagues are collecting material to document the natural history of these poorly known animals, as well as testing various hypotheses about the historical biogeography of the fauna. Results of these studies will provide critical information for the design of effective conservation strategies for the unique habitats of the Eastern Arc and other mountains of Tanzania.
• The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund(CEPF) is funding conservation and research activities in the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya. Four organisations are working with CEPF to implement the investment programme in the Eastern Arc Mountains, these are:
  • TFCG - Tanzania Forest Conservation Group
  • WWF - East Africa Programme Office
  • ICIPE - International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology
  • Birdlife International - Africa Secretariat

• Zoological Museum of Copenhagen - have an interest in the Eastern Arc Mountains.
• Trento Museum of Natural History
• CEPF Eastern Arc and Coastal Forests Coordination Unit
• WWF US - this website provides information about Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forest Ecoregion.

Links to other sites of interest - Biological diversity

• FAO Biological Diversity HomepageIncludes information on FAO's activities related to biological diversity, including the Inter-Departmental Working Group (IDWG) on Biological Diversity for Food and Agriculture

• Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

• Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture

• FORESTRY Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (FRA 2000) Includes two chapters related to forest biological diversity: Chapter 5, "Forest biological diversity"; and Chapter 7, "Forests in protected areas"
  
• State of the World's Forests 2001 Includes a chapter entitled "Forest biological diversity conservation: protected area management"

• Forest Genetic Resources homepage - Includes the annual bulletin on Forest Genetic Resources

• Non-Wood Forest Products homepage - Includes a searchable database of non-wood forest products

• FAO Worldwide Information System on Forest Genetic Resources (REFORGEN)
  
• World Information and Early Warning System on Plant Genetic Resources (WIEWS)
  
• Ecosystems Ecoport
  
• Forestry Links Database