Countrywide, local communities are the principal consumers of the NWFP products especially in rural areas. Forestry and wildlife management plans will definitely need to incorporate the NWFP component to ensure both sustainable use and social benefits. Presently in Mozambique, there is a lack of systematized and recorded statistics on NWFP. In addition the NWFP is indeed a new approach in the context of forestry and wildlife resources integrated management planning.
Therefore much more work in this regard will be required and this study must be complemented with some other studies, which will better enable the environment to prepare for community-based natural resources management programmes which will in turn seek to re-establish a sound use and enhance conservation of biological diversity in so called open access areas.
