The island of Grenada covers 31,200 ha of which over a quarter is forested or wooded and mostly exceeds 30° slopes. The State owns approx. 55% of this forested land (4,800 ha), the rest being privately owned (3,967 ha). Almost all public and private forested land is at higher elevations, where it plays a major role in maintaining water supplies and reducing soil erosion. Additionally, some of these forests can provide a range of forest products for local consumption and attractions for tourists.

To ensure that these benefits are adequately balanced with other competing demands on the land, careful land-use planning is required. If this is not done and demand increases, the potential for degradation of the forested watersheds is very great, as can be seen already in some areas. To initiate planned land-use, adequate information must be available on land ownership, existing land-use, and land capability, from which coherent national land-use policies and plans can be drawn up, supported where required by enforceable legislation.

The project purpose is to improve management of forest resources on State land through the following outputs: forest reserves surveyed, demarcated and gazetted; forest legislation reviewed and gazetted; forest legislation effectively enforced; awareness campaign developed and operational; management plans for State forest prepared and implementation started; Forestry Department staff trained.

• Forest reserves surveyed, demarcated and gazetted.
• Forest legislation reviewed and gazetted.
• Forest legislation effectively enforced.
• Awareness campaign developed and operational.
• Management plans for state forests prepared and implementation started.
• Forestry Department staff trained.