Carbon Tanzania’s project director, Marc Baker and field assistant, Hamisi Athumani putting up mist nets on the edge of the project site during the baseline surveys, a combination of mist-netting and point counts were used to look at the species of forest birds.
Working towards setting the standard
As part of our project we are working towards the CCB Standards. These Climate, Community and Biodiversity Project Design Standards are designed to identify projects that can combine compelling climate, community and biodiversity benefits. As part of this process there are a number of steps that must be taken to show a scientific, broad based understanding of the project site, in our case in Arkaria on Monduli Mountain. At Carbon Tanzania we have begun this process with baseline studies of avifauna and habitat types;
African Hill Babbler, one of the species of forest birds caught during the two-day mist netting exercise. These enigmatic highland forest species are great indicators of our specific target habitat.
Croton macrostachyus, a target tree species for the Carbon Tanzania. Known as Olmotoo to the Maasai, this tree is used at the end of the dry season and during drought, the branches are coppiced and used to feed cattle.
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