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been demarcated by now if it were not for the lack of forestry staff. 

 It remains to be seen whether the native authorities will be capable 

 of controlling cutting in order to maintain the permanence of 

 supply in these reserves. On public lands outside forest reserves, 

 administrative officers may prohibit the destruction of trees on the 

 upper slopes of mountains and hills, and on the banks of streams. 

 This important provision is laid down in the forest rules for 1933. 



The department has published (Tanganyika 1932) a useful 

 brochure on forest production and conservation of soil and water, 

 outlining the measures to be adopted regarding planting trees, etc. 

 The present situation of the headquarters of the forestry depart- 

 ment in Tanganyika at Morogoro has certain disadvantages owing 

 to its distance both from the seat of government and from the areas 

 where forestry work is most important. 



In Kenya, as in Tanganyika, evergreen forest has been destroyed 

 by shifting cultivation and also by European settlement, and is now 

 reduced to patches in the mountain areas, but Kenya is, perhaps, 

 better placed to-day, since reservation began earlier, in 1901. The 

 relics have been reserved as Crown forests and can no longer be 

 destroyed, but shifting cultivation is allowed under licence locally 

 in the regenerated areas. Most of the Crown forests are situated in 

 the highlands, and only a small portion are contiguous with native 

 lands. Hence supervision is relatively inexpensive. Excisions from 

 forest reserves have been made from time to time, among them 

 that of an area of 13,500 acres allotted to native tribes in settlement 

 of claims upheld by the Garter Land Commission. The remaining 

 forested land, excluding savannah, amounts to only 2 per cent of 

 the total land area. 



In the native reserves large tracts have been seriously denuded 

 and it is recognized that re-afforestation must be effected in the 

 worst areas. The native forest areas which have been created are 

 managed by the forest department and not by native authorities 

 as in the territories described above. The department has obtained 

 funds to re-afforest the Machakos reserve, in which no natural 

 forest survives, but difficulty has been experienced in obtaining 

 land for the purpose from the native authority. A similar situation 

 has arisen in the South Kavirondo reserve, where re-afforestation 

 is badly needed. 



