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Agroforestry
Extension
Resources
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 A059 Once there was a Forest
Video produced by the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) Director: Lars Brydesen; Producer:
Lars Johannessen. 1989 59 minutes.
TVE website blurb states: This film brilliantly recaptures the innocence, incredulity and regret of
the Sambaa tribespeople as they recount
what happened to their forest. Only a hundred years ago their forest, growing in the Shadow of the Usambara
mountains in northeastern
Tanzania, was one of the richest natural habitats in all of East Africa. German colonists conquered
the land with gun and bible, felled and
exported the huge trees to Europe and made a fortune. After independence the Tanzanians followed suit;
but the land rapidly deteriorated,
and now the Sambaa are replanting trees and using the traditional gardening that sustained them for
generations.
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