The Uganda Atlas

Land use

NEMA 2008

NEMA 2007 NEMA 2006

Terraced gardens and intensive tree planting on farm plot boundaries and on marginal slopes in Kabale District, Western Uganda (2008). Kigezi highland is a productive region renowned for a temperate-like cool climate that support horticultural agriculture.

Mt. Rwenzori ranges in Kasese District , South-Western Uganda (2007). Intensive human activities on the ruggesd mountain slopes have led to destruction of vegetation cover and accelerated erosion.

NEMA 2007 NEMA 2004

NEMA sensitising communities in Ibanda District, Western Uganda on restoration and conseravtion of fragile ecosystems, including bare hills through afforestation and terracing (2006)

Tororo Rock, a unique ecosystem in Tororo District, Eastern Uganda protected by the Local authorities (2007). Tororo is on the eastern border with Western Kenya.

NEMA 2008

Degraded rangeland ecosystems: a boy tends cattle in poor pastures chocked with bushes dominated by thorny speciec (inset) in the cattle corridor drylands of Nakasongola District (2008)

Clearing of forest in Mukono District, Central Uganda (2004). Most of the forest cover on private land in Mukono has been depleted for brickmaking and charcoal burning.

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