Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
As the world commemorated the International Wetlands Day on February 2 under the theme: ‘Shines a spotlight on wetlands as a source of freshwater and encourage actions to restore them and stop their loss,’ the Save Bugoma Forest Campaign team, organised a meeting with Bugoma forest host communities.
It was observed that communities are heavily dependent on ecosystems services in form of food, raw materials, medicinal plants and others, from which income is generated for livelihoods.
In addition, Uganda’s economy heavily relies on ecosystem services with agriculture and forestry contributing more than 32 per cent of Uganda’s GDP while tourism contributes more than Shs7b in revenues to the economy.