The concerns include contamination of land, water and livelihood support amenities in case of oil spills and leakages, timely compensation, human rights violations, the emergence of speculators and middlemen threatening the security of tenure among other issues.
Read more ...Early this month, President Yoweri Museveni threatened to sack Chief Administrative Officers, Resident District Commissioners and Police Commanders in Nakaseke and Luweero district after witnessing several wetlands degraded during a visit to the area.
Read more ...Officers from the districts of Mpigi, Gomba, Kalungu, Masaka, Kyotera, Lwengo and Rakai district have observed that they do not have the required capacity to address the emerging environment destruction challenges in their areas.
Read more ...Police also say a pickup truck from Ofua refugee camp in Rhino camp is also said to have been swept off together with four people on board as it also tried to cross River Enyau on Monday to Omugo camp.
Read more ...Dr. John Recha, a Kenyan Agronomist with the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS in East Africa, says once enforced crop quarantine will overwhelm the pest to extinction.
Read more ...The university staffs have launched an initiative dubbed Aid Bududa Community ABC, through which well-wishers, staff, students and alumni will be mobilized, over the next one week, to donate food and relief items to support the survivors of the tragedy,
Read more ...The deadly gorge at the scene of the March 2010 Bududa mudslide has been reclaimed by relatives of over one hundred people that died.
Read more ...The three were found cutting timber in a buffer zone at Dajje landing site in Bujumba Sub County. 2,300 pieces of timber were also confiscated and taken to Kalangala Central Police Station.
Read more ...The landslide affected 139 households with a population of 695 people. Of these, 278 are children under 5 years. The most hit villages are; Lwanda, Malandu, Namalira, Nyekhe, and Shitikho.
Read more ...The Uganda Peoples Defence Forces UPDF have impounded immature Nile perch fish worth one billion shillings in Buvuma district
Read more ...The grant will go towards the development of new bankable climate change adaptation and mitigation projects in view of achieving the national Climate change goals identified under the Nationally Determine Contributions NDCs.
Read more ...Manase Anziku, the Arua District Health Inspector, says the destruction of the mosquito nets is an indication of ignorance among communities.
Read more ...Santa Omara, an eye witness says several revelers were cut by iron sheets propelled by strong violent winds. Omara says two people were gravely hit unconscious by debris.
Read more ...The Katabi Town Council Chairperson, Ronald Gavins Kalema, says all developments that are in a 200-meter buffer zone must have environmental impact assessments from the National Environment Management Authority NEMA, which most developers dont have.
Read more ...According to Lawrence Tibesigwa, the Officer in Charge of Mubuku Irrigation Schem, the excavator was hired to desilt River Mubuku whose flooding was wreaking havoc in the area only to get stuck in the river.
Read more ...The Ministry of Water and Environment under department of water for production wants to construct the reservoir dam for domestic water supply. However a section of the 17-acre land owners in the project area located in Man-woko village, Labongo Amida sub-county have opposed the modern irrigation scheme aimed at increasing agricultural productivity.
Read more ...Dr. Eric Enyel, the Acting Chief Warden Murchison Falls National Park, says Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers are on ground doing their best to restore sanity.
Read more ...The report warns that without urgent action to reduce emissions, the occurrence of climate shocks and stresses in the Africa region are expected to get much worse adding that there is mounting evidence that higher temperatures have worsened drought and humanitarian disaster in East Africa.
Read more ...In a speech read for her by Kania, Janet Museveni congratulated the school for attaining 75 years and hailed the Catholic Church for starting the school to model the future leaders of the country.
Read more ...Annually, the herdsmen are forced into the district in search for grazing land due to drought.
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