Project
The Mulanje Cedar Ecological Restoration Project
Duration
2014 - 2016
Location
Malawi
Species protected
Mulanje Cedar
Widdringtonia Whytei
Project objectives
- A cedar management plan effectively rolled out to guide the stakeholders to implement action around a set of key objectives;
- Ecological restoration action increased to protect priority cedar forests and enable the consolidation of isolated cedar clusters for greater ecological integrity;
- One million seedlings planted out to link isolated cedar clusters into consolidation zones and enrich the priority cloud forests;
- A small-scale harvesting regime established for regulated community pit-sawyers to produce timber from dead-standing trees to be available to the local craft-makers.
This project is implemented by Mount Mulanje.