Abstract:
Southern Darfur state was one of the regions affected by environmental change and
desert creep and also affected by conflict, migration to big cities and camps at the
periphery of cities.
This study was conducted at Bilail locality in south
Darfur state. The main
objective
s
of
this study was to investigate the different effects of conflict on forest
and range resources and also to study how the community was affected due to the
conflict
.
The area was divided according to stratification proc
edure to three
un
equal groups;
large, medium and small village
s
, in addition to one sample from nomads. The
numbers of large villages were
9,
medium village were 8,
and small village
s
were
14.
One village was
randomly selected from each g
roup. The chosen v
illages are
Bilail representing the large group, Marla representing medium group, and Higer
-
S
tunu
representing small group.
10 officials were interviewed personally
.
A socioeconomic survey was also conducted to
collect
in
formation and shed light
on the di
fferent effects of conflict on forest and range resources.
A
questionnaire was designed for nomads and settled groups with 70 people
selected from the three selected villages at Bilail locality.
The results obtained from this study showed that,
67.1% of th
e respondents
mentioned that, they got their building materials from the forest. But still the
majority of displaced people depend on forest. The respondents admitted that, they
were cutting down trees for building material
s
and other purposes
.
The study c
oncluded hat,
the majority of the respondents 82.9% occupied in
agriculture activities in the area .But 67.1% mentioned that, the areas of agriculture
was decreasing after the conflict
.
This means the conflict affected human activities.
It can
be concluded
that, the conflict
affected the forest sector, in all aspects such
as trees, so
il degradation and habitats
