Scientists are combing rain forests around the world for potential cures for cancer and other ailments, but the residents near Uganda’s last rain forests are are not waiting around for a multinational ...

Medicinal plants rarely receive the same attention as iconic wildlife species. Yet they form part of the same ecosystems, and they are disappearing under pressure from overharvesting, habitat loss, ...

The southern edge of the Mpanga Forest Reserve a rainforest, that is now regenerating after it was degraded by illegal loggers, farmers and villagers cutting down trees for firewood within Mpigi ...

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From 16–19 September 2025, more than 40 stakeholders from government ministries, the National Forest Authority, NGOs, academia, development partners and UN agencies gathered in Jinja for a four-day ...

Uganda has lost 13% of its tree cover since 2000 NAKIVALE, Uganda (AP) — Enock Twagirayesu was seeking sanctuary when he and his family fled violence in Burundi, and they found it in Uganda, the small ...

The 2025 Bwindi Chimpanzee Census has confirmed the presence of an estimated 426 chimpanzees widely distributed across Bwindi ...

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KAMPALA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni will allow 7,100 hectares of virgin forest to be farmed for sugarcane, his spokesperson told Reuters on Monday, potentially triggering a ...

Kampala — THEY have called it rationalising the National Forestry Authority (NFA). But conservationists warn that the proposed law to be presented to cabinet soon will actually trim the powers of the ...

ADJUMANI, Uganda – Under a searing midday sun, Olany Mario wipes his brow as he bends to water a bed of tiny green neem seedlings in the fertile soil of a tree nursery in Palabek refugee settlement, ...