Tag Archives: Wetlands

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), the body responsible for protecting and conserving the environment in Uganda, has revealed how best to safeguard our surroundings. Speaking to NBS TV in an exclusive interview, Barirega Akankwasa, the Executive Director of NEMA, said having citizens at the same level of appreciation of environmental issues is the best conservation way. This is because ...

The gray-rowned Crested Cranes (Balearic regulorum) are Uganda’s national symbol and heritage. The number of these amazingly peaceful creatures has continuously continued to reduce due to man’s continued degradation of the environment. The state minister for environment Beatrice Anywar the continued wetland destruction, its habitat, has enhanced the reduction. In 1996, the number of these crested cranes stood at 100,000. ...