Hwange Sanyati Biological Corridor Project Introduction The Hwange Sanyati Biodiversity Corridor (HSBC) project covers an area of 5.7 million ha in north western Zimbabwe and falls within the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) Trans-frontier Conservation Area (TFCA). It...
Gweru, Zimbabwe. The Forestry Commission in Gweru has commended ZDDT for its Community Restoration efforts, saying it has cultivated the culture of total community ownership of developmental projects by residents, a principle that has seen...
TREES are life but whose life you may ask? Yours of course and that of the earth’s. For this cause we will never stress enough the need for you to plant a tree and not...
Botanical: Vanguerai infausta Common English Name: Velvet wild medlar / Africa medlar Shona: Munjiro, Munzviru or Munzvirwa Ndebele: Umviyo Vanguerai infausta is a small to medium deciduous tree or shrub with height varying from 2 to...
Botanical name: Bolusanthusspeciosus Common name: Tree wisteria Shona Names: mukweshangoma, mupaka, murutsa and mushengamhara Ndebele names: impaca, umbambangwe Background The tree wisteria is certainly one of the most spectacular of our indigenous trees when in...
Red-leaved rock fig (English) Mutsamvi (Shona) Inkiwane (Ndebele) This is a briefly deciduous species, terrestrial or starting as a strangler. It is variable in height and habit, from a small to medium sized tree growing...
The “Big Tree” of Chirinda Forest is the most common example of a Khaya anthotheca. Khaya anthotheca is a large evergreen tree which grows up to 60m tall (up to 30m in the garden) with...