Dear Sir,

I am a Mozambican geographer, lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Mozambique. Since 1991, I am giving an EE course for future geography, history and mathematics teachers in Maputo and Beira. This year we have initiated a research project aiming to produce EE materials by identifying and documenting the land use and cover changes and their impact on the environmental quality of a region. The Chibuto region in southern Mozambique, which experienced rapid changes in the last 3 decades, was chosen for study. The research is an attempt to introduce education on global changes through local evidence. The main topics of research:

• What are the most important environmental policy regulations at national and regional level that have had an influence on land use/cover and environmental change in Chibuto between 1965-1995?
• How have different systems of agricultural production and policy influenced particular land use/cover and environmental change?
• How has natural environment influenced particular land use/cover patterns and rates of environmental change?
• How do the people of Chibuto perceive and interpret environmental change?
• What was the state of the environment in Chibuto some years ago?
• When and how did the land use/cover occur?

To reach our objectives we are in need of all kinds of material: studies, reports, books, catalogues as well as funding information that would permit us to go forward with the research.

Thanking you for your attention,

Yours sincerely,

Zacarias Alexandre Ombe, The Pedagogical University of Mozambique, Department of Geography, PO Box 3276, Maputo, Mozambique. Fax: 258-1-42.84.75.

Dear Sir,

Mining is an activity which results in the degradation of the environment in different ways. People engaged in this activity are often not sufficiently aware of this. We have thus started a training programme on environmental awareness for managers, engineers etc. engaged in mining, where we deal with the tangible and intangible benefits from forests.

Having gone through many issues of Connect I have found very little related to this subject. In view of the paucity of materials available, I should like to make a request through your columns for any relevant material that could be sent to us for the benefit of our programme.

Thanking you,

Sincerely,

M.N. Jha, Head, Forest Soil & Land Reclamation Division, Forest Research Institute, P.O. New Forest, Dehradun-248006, India. Fax:(91-135) 756865 e-mail: icfre mis@400.micgw.nic.in

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