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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 ser...

Daily Monitor Tuesday February 02 2021 Uganda is one of the countries on the globe that is blessed with a favourable environment.  It receives two rain seasons in year, with fertile soils and fresh water spread in various parts of the country.  The country is ever green all the year round save for a few isolated areas like parts of  Karamoja Sub-region where during dry weather, brown becomes more dominant than green. In the 1930s and earlier times, most areas of Uganda were covered by natural forests. Foresighted as they were, the colonial governments at the time decided to gazette a  num...

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Featured pages Featured pages Briefing Featured pages Featured pages 'The Albertine Watch Demands The Immediate Release Of Arrested Environmental Human Rights Defenders In Hoima', 16 September 2020 The Albertine Watch demands that Hoima police and authorities immediately release the 5 Environmental Human rights defenders who were arrested in Hoima on September 15 and 16th 2020 by Hoima police. The arrested include Sandra Atusinguza, journalists Venex Watebawa, Joshua Mutale, Sam Kayiwa, Ismail Kashokwa. The EHRD’s arrested...