Cultural Survival Canada is pleased to be involved with the effort to produce Indigenous Multipurpose Trees of Tanzania: Uses and Economic Benefits for People. We feel this handbook will be a useful and productive tool in our work. As an organization, one of our chief areas of focus is helping to preserve forest peoples' cultures and forest environments worldwide. We are also concerned with how indigenous tree species, which form an integral part of most cultures around the world, can continue to be utilized and protected while still allowing peoples to live sustainably.
Even though Tanzania is the focus country, this handbook should provide a working model for any country to adapt to its own particular circumstances. In this way, we hope that it will be instrumental in helping peoples everywhere to better understand their environments and the natural tree - based resources on which they often rely to meet their everyday needs.
Heather Hamilton
Cultural Survival Canada
