REDD herrings or REDD menace: Response to Beymer-Farris and Bassett |
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| Authors: | Neil D Burgess Shadrack Mwakalila Pantaleo Munishi Marion Pfeifer Simon Willcock Deo Shirima Seki Hamidu George B Bulenga Jason Rubens Haji Machano Rob Marchant |
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| Institution: | 1. WWF US Conservation Science Program, 1250 24th Street, Washington, DC, USA;2. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;3. WWF Tanzania Country Office, P.O. Box 63117, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;4. Department of Geography, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35049, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;5. Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3010, Morogoro, Tanzania;6. York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics, Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK;7. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Buckhurst Road, London SL5 7PY, UK;8. School of Geography, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;9. Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK;10. Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Aas, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Norwegian funded REDD+ projects in Tanzania have attracted a lot of attention, as has the wider REDD+ policy that aims to reduce deforestation and degradation and enhance carbon storage in forests of the developing countries. One of these REDD+ projects, managed by WWF Tanzania, was criticised in a scientific paper published in GEC, and consequently in the global media, for being linked to attempted evictions of communities living in the Rufiji delta mangroves by the Government of Tanzania, allegedly to make the area ‘ready for REDD’. In this response, we show how this eviction event in Rufiji mangroves has a history stretching back over 100 years, has nothing to do with REDD+ or any policy changes by government, and is not in any way linked to the work of any WWF project in Tanzania. We also outline some of the broader challenges faced by REDD+ in Tanzania. |
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| Keywords: | UNFCCC REDD+ Carbon storage/sequestration Livelihoods Forest eviction Community/Participatory forest management |
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