TREE OF THE YEAR 2020 Botanical name: Adansonia digitata English name: African Baobab Shona name: Muuyu Ndebele name: Umkhomo Tonga Name: Mubuyu Background The tree is very majestic and massive, usually more than 20 m...
I) OVERVIEW The Government of Zimbabwe carried out the Hwange Sanyati Biodiversity Corridor (HSBC) Project with the assistance of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the World Bank over a five-year period, which started in...
Executive Summary Forestry Commission (FC) is currently implementing one of the Hwange Sanyati Biological Corridor Project (HSBCP) components dedicated to improving forestry and land management. HSBCP seeks to support the ecological health of the biological...
Botanical name: Garcinia buchananii English name: Granite garcinia / Granite mangosteen Shona Name: Mutunduru Description of the tree Garcinia buchananii is a small evergreen tree which reaches 4 to 8 meters in height at maturity,...
Names: English jackal-berry, swamp ebony, and African ebony Botanical: Diospyros mespiliformis. Shona: Musuma, Mushuma. Ndebele: Umdlauzo/Umsuma Other languages: Ntoma/Mgula(shangaan), mushumha (ndau), musuma (Venda), DESCRIPTION The generic name Diospyros means ‘divine pear’, and the specific name...
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...