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, ...

From tree-planting drives to tighter laws on illegal logging, countries worldwide are searching for a silver bullet to stop the loss of forests vital for nature and climate protection.

Uganda has lost nearly half of its forests since 1990, even as the world records a slowdown in deforestation, according to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 (FRA 2025) released by the Food ...

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 ...

Private investors plant trees next to government forests The timber meets demand previously filled by illegal loggers Cutting for firewood still a problem due to high power prices KALAGALA, Uganda, ...

Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) is an Uganda company undertaking public policy research and advocacy to influence energy policies to benefit the poor and vulnerable. Since August 2020, ...

Uganda’s forest cover has declined drastically over the past three decades, shrinking from 24 per cent (approximately 4,898,335 hectares) in 1990 to the current 12.7 per cent, according to a report by ...

Carpenter Jon Katangole fears he will lose his livelihood when bulldozers come to destroy one of Uganda's last patches of rainforest. "My timber comes from that forest," he said, pointing to a cluster ...

Ugandan conservationist Mwezi Mugerwa is using camera traps and AI algorithms to save the African golden cat, one of the ...

As recently as 2018, only a little over 42% of Ugandans had access to electricity — many were too poor to afford it. As of 2016-17, 90% of all households burned wood fuel for cooking, with just 15.5% ...