Tag Archives: Deforestation

President Museveni recently passed a directive to ban all timber exports in the country. This has now started to bite as private companies in the tree growing and timber harvest business have started laying off workers. Some of these companies include Busoga Forestry Company, New Forests Foundation, and Besepo – Uganda LTD.  Mr. Ponsiano Bessel, the executive director of Besepo ...

Rebecca Kadaga the Speaker of Parliament, has joined other environment activists to demand an end to razing down of forests. These acts she says are mainly perpetrated by government officials. Speaking during this year’s Running out of Trees (ROOT) Initiative which targets to plant 40 million trees countrywide which also coincided with celebrations to mark World Forest day, Kadaga said ...