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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Forestry Authority (NFA) is scaling up the implementation of Community Forest Management initiatives around major central forest reserves. The initiative works in such a way that community groups are introduced to alternative sources of livelihoods as incentives for protecting forest resources. Such enterprises …

The impact of the charcoal industry on Uganda’s environment should makes us despair, comments Boaz Opio. Tree fellers should use the timber for making their own coffins. Because as they cut that 100-year old Mvule, they are killing a poor tree that has been busy supplying them with good air …