Human influences on forests in southern Ethiopia: the case of Shashemane-Munessa-forest

特别是在过去的几十年里，埃塞俄比亚的天然林受到了人类活动的严重干扰。一些森林已经完全被砍伐，变成了农业用地，另一些森林受到了不同的影响，如大量放牧和选择性采伐。沙希曼-穆内萨研究区正在进行的研究(GU 406/8-1，2)清楚地表明，尽管受到封锁和控制，森林仍在继续被清除和退化。然而，这些过程如何以及为什么仍在进行，目前还不够清楚。日益增长的人口压力和对居住在森林内和森林周围的人的经济限制造成了实际情况，但不能最终解决复杂的情况。关于森林的可持续管理，从社会经济和社会文化角度提出的建议没有坚实的基础。因此，有必要全面分析森林使用的传统需求和形式，包括所有森林产品。该项目的目标是在此基础上进行深入的实地观察，对航空照片、卫星图像进行磋商，尤其是对研究地区的居民进行半结构化访谈，以便为可持续利用Munessa Shasemane森林的建议作出贡献。

Especially during the last decades, the natural forests of Ethiopia have been heavily disturbed by human activities. Some forests have been totally cleared and converted into fields for agricultural use, other suffered from different influences, such as heavy grazing and selective logging. The ongoing research in the Shashemane-Munessa-study area (Gu 406/8-1,2) showed clearly that, in spite of interdiction and control, forests continue to be cleared and degraded. However, it is not yet sufficiently known, how and why these processes are still going on. Growing population pressure and economic constraints for the people living in and around the forests contribute to the actual situation but allow no final answers to the complex situation. Concerning a sustainable management of the forests there is to no solid basis for recommendations from the socioeconomic and socio-cultural view. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of the traditional needs and forms of forest use, including all forest products, is necessary. The objective of this project is, to achieve this basis by carrying out intensive field observations, the consultation of aerial photographs, satellite imagery and above all semi-structured interviews with the population in the study area in order to contribute to the recommendations for a sustainable use of the Munessa Shasemane forests.