In June 2011, a team of Kilwa Ditsrict Participatory Land Use and Management (PLUM) team, worked with Likawage, Nainokwe and Nakiu village for major land use planning, which included the establishment of proposed Mbarawala Plateau Local Authority Forest Reserve. The plateau contains one of the huge remain vegetation massif of the last remaining coastal forests in Kilwa district. The land use planning came up with at least more than 23,000Ha to be surveyed as Kilwa LAFR. With partiners' initiatives in Kilwa who are mostly NGOs working in forest management, it is hope more open access forests will be put into ownerships of either Village land forest reserves or Local Authority Forest reserves, hence rescuing from speedy rush for 'land grabbing' and investments
