THE MITMIOMBO PROJECT PLANNING W/SHOP 6-13TH FEB 2007General • Tanzania has about 34,368,742.2 hectares of forests and woodlands under the following categories of tenure ; • Central government forest reserves (35.7%) ; • Local government forest reserves (4.6%); • Private forests(0.12%), • Village forest reserves (0.54%) and • General land forest - non reserved (59.5) • Further be categorized into • productive forests 30.6 m ha (88%) • protective, 3.8 m ha. • 90% of forest area is miombo woodlands (URT 1998), – provide services and products – the rest being plantation and catchment forests. • Participatory Forest Management (PFM), encouraged • All village forests reserves fall under (PFM) • and today there are a total of 994 PFM areas involving 2009 villages with a total area of about 3 m ha.