Enviroment

MPs call for audit of national forestry body over vanishing cover. Lawmakers want the National Forestry Authority (NFA) audited over the disappearing forest cover in the country. They accuse the...

MPs Moot Law To Punish Officers Issuing  Permits In Wetlands. By Adiga Julius Legislators on the Parliament’s Committee on Climate change are in the process of drafting a law that...

Speaker Calls For Nationwide Tree Planting to Curb  Environmental Degradation. Speaker of Parliament Right Hon Anita Among has urged legislators to embark on initiatives meant to preserve the environment and...

UPDF Soldier, Four Others Confirmed Dead as Floods Displace Hundreds in Mbale City. A Uganda People’s Defense Forces -UPDF Soldier and four other people have been confirmed dead following floods...

Climate  Change Committee  Allay Fears On Oil Pipeline. Call For Operationalization  Of The National Tree Fund. The chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee of climate change Lawrence Biyika Songa has allayed...

MP Mamawi Petitions Govt Over Zoka Forest Depletion. Logs of trees destroyed in Zoka forest. The Member of Parliament for Adjumani East James Mamawi has called on the government to...

Govt Pledge Relief aid for West Budama Disaster Victims. Julius Adiga The Prime minister of Uganda Robinah Nabanja has committed on behalf of the government to extend immediate relief aid...

Adjumani East MP Mamawi-Speaks Out on Charcoal Theft -Claims The Adjumani East MP James Mamawi who is being investigated by police over Charcoal theft has spoken out on the matter...

Weak Forest Laws Pause Threat to Uganda's Natural Recourses-CSOs By Damba Rogers Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) advocating for forest conservation are worried that by 2050 if there is no significant...

No More Construction Of Industries In Wetlands. Anywar By Damba Rogers Ministry of water and environment has banned the construction of industries in wetlands with the ban to be fully...