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LWERA WETLAND, Uganda -- The excavator grunts in the heart of the wetland, baring its teeth. There are trucks waiting to be loaded with sand, and more almost certainly on the way.
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The Lwera wetland, stretching more than 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Ugandan capital Kampala into the western interior, has long been worked over by sand miners, both legal and illegal, motivated by demand from the construction industry
In Uganda, sand is intensely being mined from wetlands in the centre of the country. The mining efforts are driven by a booming construction industry. But locals and activists warn it is endangering the ecosystem and flooding nearby residential areas.
The Lwera wetland, stretching more than 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Ugandan capital Kampala into the western interior, has long been worked over by sand miners, both legal and