Determinants of Lake Zone Forest Resources' Status_ Analyzing the Impact of Implemented Policies in Tanzania

It can be seen all around the globe that forests are utilized, protected, and conserved in several ways. As resources, forests provide us with a broad range of relevant renewable raw materials such as food, fuelwood, and other bio products (Langat et al. 2016; Lee 2019), without forgeting the essential ecological and environmental services such as soil and water protection, recreation, conservation of biodiversity, carbon storage and climate change miti- gation (Dhyani and Dhyani 2016; Duguma et al. 2019).