Govt moves to halt land bonanza in central forest reserves
Uganda, April 10 -- Parliament together with the Ministry of Water and Environment has resolved to halt the degazattement of central forest reserves, amid escalating effects of climate change, Ms Christine Kaaya, the Kiboga District woman legislator has disclosed.
"Together with the Ministry of Water and Environment, we are putting on hold the degazzetement of forests. Based on our dwindling forest acreages and the heat wave that we have experienced in the past two months, we cannot afford to lose more forest cover," she said at the sidelines of the launch of Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE)'s report on the impact of climate change on women's rights, held in Kampala on Tuesday.
The report documents how women are grea...
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