By Ashoka Mukpo This is the fourth story in the Mongabay Series – Protected Areas in East Africa. Read Part One,Two and Three ...

Statistics obtained from the ministry indicates that in 1990, Uganda had 24 percent of forest cover but due to the escalating illegal activities including deforestation and population growth that has ...

A new project to strengthen Uganda’s sustainable wood-based value chain was launched on April 10, at Kigo Carpentry Village, ...

As Uganda’s first wildlife vet, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has spent 30 years working to restore Uganda’s mountain gorilla population, which until recently, was critically endangered. Thanks to her ...

As we observe this day, we must ask ourselves: Are we truly celebrating the life-giving force of forests, or mourning their destruction? In Uganda, Bugoma Forest, one of the country’s largest ...

Denmark joined the EU’s “Partnering for Forests Uganda” program, committing substantial aid to tackle the nation’s critical ...

Some 6,000 children from different schools and communities marched to Parliament with placards bearing messages to demand for ...

According to the National Forestry Authority, human activities and climate change are some of the major drivers of forest loss in the country. Today, Uganda’s forest cover stands at 18.4% or about ...

In the 1970s, Uganda’s gorillas faced another existential ... Local farmers are trained to safely herd gorillas back to the forest when they venture onto community land, and a network of village ...

And in turn, “the gorillas have really transformed Uganda, and brought Ugandan conservation and tourism back on the map.” For millennia, mountain gorillas roamed across the forests of Uganda ...