Dwindling forests are hollowed out

• Autores: Esther Nakkazi
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3021, 2015, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Roughly a third of the 16 forest reserves in Kibaale district have been seriously damaged and occupied by squatters. About half of those are 50% occupied, says Charles Arian, a manager for Kibaale district at the National Forestry Authority (NFA). Uganda's forest cover fell from 24% in 1990 to 10% in 2009, and it's still falling. Every year the country loses around 88,000 hectares of forest, according to the NFA. If forest loss continues at this rate, there will be none left in a few decades. Commercial logging is largely licensed, but illegal logging by people settling in the forests often takes the authorities by surprise.