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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

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 ...

Kampala — A RANDOM survey has revealed the majority of MPs oppose the degazetting of part of Mabira Forest for sugarcane growing. Eighty-one per cent of 200 MPs polled are against the move. A national ...

LESS than half a kilometer from Aliyo Sarile’s tobacco farm, the wild frontier of Budongo Forest rises, a wall of emerald canopy and untamed vegetation marking a boundary. Each dawn, Aliyo wakes to ...

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 East African nation that has absorbed thousands ...