Assessment of the Challenges and Opportunities of Sustainable Forest Management in Case of Burka Chilalo Kebele

Abstract

In Ethiopia, natural resource degradation has become a serious environmental problem. Deforestation, which is occurring at an alarming rate, is one of such problems and a key factor challenging food security, community livelihood and sustainable development. There are many serious problems in our country as well as in burka chilalo kebele which need active solutions, such as: high population growth, deforestation, scarcity of agricultural land, expansion of desertification and soil erosion. The study was conduct in one district in Burka chilalo kebele and other geographical areas are not included in the study. Moreover the study was limited only about challenges and opportunities of sustainable forest management. The general objective of the study was to assess the challenges and opportunities of sustainable forest management in burka chilalo kebele forest. The study was conducted in tiyo woreda specifically in Burka chilalokebele which is found in Tiyo woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia Part of the Arsi Zone. The data was -collected through sample survey method. The information was collected from secondary and primary data sources. The major challenges of the forest in  Burka chilalo Kebele (BCK) Burka chilalo woreda were deforestation, over population, clearing forest for agricultural land and overgrazing. Generally Burka chilalo is endowed with diverse natural resource in general and forest resource in particular. But due to unwise use of the forest resource of the area which has been taking place for centuries, the remaining forest coverage is extremely very small and declining

Keywords: Burka chilalo, forest management, challenges, opportunities,