Role of Community in Conservation of Woody Plant Species in Community Based Forests at Raya Alamata District, Northern Ethiopia
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2019-08-08
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Globally it is crystal fact that community plays an important role in conserving the available
natural resources in their environment. This is also common throughout Africa. So, Ethiopia is
as one of the Sub-Saharan African country as well. Evaluate the role of communities living in
and around Raya Alamata in woody plant species conservation in the community based forests
of the district.
Purposive sampling method was used to select Kebeles with communal forests and free grazing
land adjacent to each other. A systematic random sampling method was used to locate the
sample plots in order to generate the woody plant species inventory data, that could help to
investigate species composition, diversity, abundance, dominance, similarity and population
structure. The species area curves were drawing following with the x-axis representing each
additional sample area, and the y-axis representing the number of species. The vegetation in the
communal forest as compared to that of the grazing land has shown an increased and change in
species composition with increased of woody species and grass. Comparing the diversity of
woody plants species, all the three communal forests are significantly different (p<0.01) from
the free grazing lands.
The Pearson test reveals that the educational level, age, sex, wealth, position and occupation of
the respondents attitude and perception towards the communal forest are not significant at
(p<0.05).Generally, the vegetation composition of woody species was much denser in the
communal forests than the free grazing lands. This indicated that the local institutions have
played a role in conserving biodiversity of woody species.
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Communal Forest, Free Grazing Land, Local Institution and Woody Plant Species