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UK envoy commends UWA for Rhino conservation
Ezaruku Draku Franklin The British High Commissioner to Uganda, Lisa Chesney has lauded Uganda Wildlife Authorityfor conserving the Southern White Rhinos that were reintroduced into the country, 20 years ago and about 23 years after the last native Northern White Rhinos and Eastern Black Rhinos were killed in the country. Ambassador Chesney, accompanied by several…
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Investing in Nature-based Solutions can generate up to 32 million new jobs by 2030, Report.
A new report by a group of international organisations including the International Labour Organisation, the International Uniomn for Conservation of Natutre and the UN Environment Programme says investing in nature-based solutions (NbS) could create up to 32 million new jobs by 2030. The report launched in December last year at the 16th session of the Conference of the…
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New report puts conservationists, investors on spotlight over land grabbing
By Ezaruku Draku Franklin A new report by Witness Radio, non-profit organization supporting land-grabbing victims across the country, has shed lights into how both foreign and domestic “Tree Plantation Investors” in Uganda are driving forced land evictions using environmental conservation as a pretext. The report says the rise of “green grabs”, land acquisitions made for…
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Climate change crisis: When nature connived with terrorists against the defenceless Somalis
Ezaruku Draku Franklin An aerial view of impart of flooding and the rising water levels of Indian Ocean along the Somali Coast. Photo/Ezaruku Draku Franklin Cries have been getting louder and louder over the last three months in Marka and Baraawe, which lie over 100 kilometres south of Mogadishu, because the roads are cut off…
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