IRINGA, Aug. 26 -- IN June 2021, Udzungwa Corridor Limited (UCL), a private company established to produce carbon-credits, started operations in Mhanga Village, Kilolo District, Iringa Region.

Here, according to Mr Carter Coleman (Director), the company seven-year goal is to reforest with merely native tree species the 7,500-hectare corridor of deforested landscape between Kilombero Nature Forest Reserve (134,511-hectares) and Uzungwa Scarp Nature Forest Reserve (32,763.2-hectaes).

The company estimates that planted trees will remove 4.5 million tons of carbon-dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere over-thirty years.

The corridor is part of the Udzungwa-Mountains stretching over Morogoro and Iringa Regions are part of the internationally re...