Conservation

By Edward Akaki – Moroto, Karamoja On a humanitarian ground, everyone deserves a right to life, health and clean water and sanitation, afact that thousands in Karamoja see as a myth due to changing climatic conditions. The suffering and pain in Uganda’s north-eastern pastoralist region, is visible in massive crop …

Shared by Dr. Musonda Mumba Today, ministers and ambassadors from Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands adopted the Wuhan Declaration.During the High-Level Ministerial Segment of the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) on 6 November 2022, ministers and ambassadors of Contracting Parties adopted the Wuhan Declaration – a statement …

By Edward Akaki The 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP14) will take place from 5th to 13th November 2022, in a hybrid manner in Wuhan (China) at East Lake International Conference Center (ELICC) and Geneva (Switzerland) at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG).The opening and high-level segment …

BY ACHORA GEOFREY PAKWACH: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022 In the rural communities of Pakwach district, adoption of solar power is slowly taking root, supplementing wood fuel and charcoal, the primary sources of household energy. Residents say this is because many private players in the solar energy sector are promoting the …

By Edward Akaki The Diocess of Kinkiizi on Tuesday 18th, October 2022 launched the campaign dubbed “Making Kanungu Green” where 30,000 (thirty thousand) natural tree seedlings and 10,000 (Ten thousand) beautification/ornamental tree seedlings were distributed.Mwesigye Ambrose, Resident District Commissioner Kanungu commended the good work done by the Church in the …

BY GEOFREY ACHORA PAKWACH: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 Forty-six kilometers north-west of Pakwach town along the Pakwack-Pawor-Arua road, the landscape was changing 12 months ago. Mushrooming office buildings, storage facilities, artificial reservoirs and dams and secondary water canals were turning a hitherto 1,000 hectares of underutilized land into what is …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU KOBOKO: Monday, September 19, 2022 Koboko district has shut down eight charcoal markets at Busia border crossing following the Rainforest journalism Fund supported article on Mount Kei Forest Reserve. “I closed all the eight big markets at Busia where they were trading charcoal. There was resistance from …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU YUMBE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 The Community Development Centre (CDC), a refugee led organization in West Nile, has launched a sh7.3b (1,918,063 euros) sustainable natural resource management project for refugee hosting areas. The 3-year project dubbed “building peace through sustainable access to and management of natural resources …

BY OUR REPORTER KAMPALA: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022  The National Forestry Authority (NFA) has hosted a team from Million Trees International, a local environment conservation organization to discuss the implementation of the greening Uganda campaign. The meeting at the NFA head offices in Bugolobi, Kampala on Monday also explored ways …

KIGALI: MONDAY, 25 JULY 2022 BirdLife International has called for increased push for the safeguarding of protected and conserved areas at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) in Kigali, Rwanda. “This inaugural APAC is an opportunity for stakeholders to link up and work …