Sustainable Life Style of the Tongwe People in the 1960s

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1.Virtually no commercial fishing or hunting
2.Prohibition of any form of fishing in some part of rivers (e.g.,some falls of  
  the Lubulungu and Lubugwe River as the residence  of guardian spirits)
3.Small scale herding of animals
4.Small scale villages (up to 40 people)
5.Shifting cultivation with the reuse of regenerating forests only after the   
  lapse of 30-50 years
6.No large scale use of fish net and restriction of mesh size to 5 inches
7.Prohibition of cutting down large trees believed to be the "home of guardian 
  spirits (mashetani)"
8.Prohibition of cutting (and even entering for some people) of some parts of 
  the terrain believed to be the home of guardian spirits (e.g.,the forest 
  fringing the summit of the Mt. Nkungwe)
9.Prohibition of cutting (and even entering for some people) of some parts of 
  the terrain believed to be the home of ancestral spirits (mizimu,e.g.,the 
  Sinsiba Forest)

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