Uganda’s growing population has increased reliance on firewood and charcoal, exacerbating deforestation. The 2024 National Population and Housing Census shows 65% of households use firewood as their ...

The Austrian government has committed £2 million (approximately Shs 7.6 billion) towards climate change mitigation in Uganda, ...

“Trees for Life-Uganda, a tree planting initiative that aims to plant 25 million trees in Uganda, visited the school and ...

Trees are being lost at an alarming rate in northern Uganda. To an extent this is caused by the commercial charcoal industry, which the government is trying to control, but it is also driven by the ...

“We plant hope.” A mature Ficus tree towers over Janet Nyakiru Abwoli’s home in Kasese District, Uganda. Evelyn Mugume, the environment officer for Kasese municipality, says that rainfall ...

They found a nearly 50% decline in some of Uganda’s most iconic lion populations over the past decade, including the famous tree-climbing lions of Queen Elizabeth National Park. That population ...

When she was growing up in Uganda, Nakabuye’s family owned a small plantation in a village called Masaka not far from the wide expanse of Lake Victoria. They grew bananas, cassava, Irish potatoes and ...

In northern Uganda’s Pader district, a women-led cooperative is leading efforts to replant shea trees, restore deforested land and improve local livelihoods through the processing and sale of ...