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Visitors’ DOS and DON’TS Around Rau Forest Reserve and The adjacent Communities.

Rau Forest reserve Community welcomes you and wishes you an interesting and pleasant tour around the local villages and in the forest. We hope that you will enjoy our beautiful forest, people and culture, our natural environment and the other attractions that you will encounter during your visit.

In order to make your tour an environmentally and socially responsible one, here are some DOS and DON’TS to our customers:

DOS

Book tour with locals guides from Rau forest community because they know the forest better than anyone else. Also you support their purpose to protect Rau forest reserve.

Always accompanied with a guide and avoid walking by yourself around the forest.

Refrain from harming any plant or animal life you encounter during your visit to our area, walk carefully and always look on the ground to avoid stepping on insects like millipedes, dung beetles and more.

Ask permission before photographing people. Our local guide may assist on the best way to take photos with locals.

Learn some basic Swahili words so that you can communicate with locals easily, especially childrens around the community.

Wear decent clothes, respect people’s culture.

If you want to support, consider creative ways to contribute to communities, not to individuals. You can support community projects like conservation, recycling, cleanliness campaigns, sports gears like Kit, footballs, schools (e.g. books, pens and exercise books). This will have a more positive and long- term impact.

DON’TS.

Do not smoke cigarettes while in Rau forest reserve and local farms, cigarettes can cause fires and destroy the forest or local farms.

Do not pick any leaves or flowers and unroot any seedlings in the forest.

Do not collect any seeds of any of the tree species around Rau forest reserve or any other protected area around Tanzania.

We have different species of monkeys, which are sensitive due to tourism activities: Do not disturb or feed them, as this may have a negative effect on their behavior.

Do not give gifts to the kids: This encourages them to beg and depend on tourists instead of going to school.

Trash in - trash out: Waste materials are a burden to the environment. Dispose of them in a proper way. Our guides are happy to collect them and keep them until the end of the tour and put them in the proper places.