Climaxed with conservation-tourism, Greenwatch launched and ran a week-long digital campaign commemorating the world wildlife day that is globally celebrated every 3rd day of March. The 2024 theme “ Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife...
What the recent ban on commercial charcoal, timber trade means for the environment and residents in Gulu Earlier last week, the Daily Monitor newspaper published a story titled “ Government bans commercial charcoal, timber trade in Gulu”. Accordingly...
A crisis Greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 70% by the year 2050 if no climate action is taken now, elevating the global atmospheric temperature to up to 4 oC - 6 oC by 2100 (OECD, 2012) What to be done? In order to stabilize GHG(Green House Gas)...
Louise Slaughter an American politician elected to 16 terms as a United States Representative from New York once said, “Let’s clean up our environment, let’s clean up our bodies but most importantly, let’s not permit our babies of the future to be...
When I was in High School, I used to spend most of my vacations volunteering (this seemed like a much more appropriate word, but actually, my dad did not like the idea of us being redundant at home during our vacations, so he took us to work) with an...
Earlier this week I had the opportunity of attending the Annual General Meeting for the Uganda Forestry Working Group (UFWG) and among the emerging issues that were discussed at the meeting was the recent decision by cabinet on 27th July, 2021 to...
Greenwatch is among the organizations that is a part of the Nile Coalition Initiative (NCI). Other organizations that are part of this coalition include ( https://www.redrocksinitiative.org, https://www.agrabilityafrica.org/junior-ranger-uganda...
On the 20th of May 2021, Tanzania and East African Crude Oil Pipeline Company (EACOP) signed the Host Government Agreement (HGA) for Tanzania. This was the final agreement for the pipeline project that will enable exploitation of crude oil in Uganda...
In the recent past, the world has received its fair share of climate change disasters ranging from effects such as global warming, destructive hailstorms, catastrophic landslides to deadly fires and swarms of locusts. Ecosystems world-wide have been...
Greenwatch’s team together with a group of children including some of the plaintiffs in the case of Nissi Mbabazi Vs Attorney General and NEMA (Civil suit no: 283 of 2021) visited Mabira forest in Central Uganda, the third largest forest in Uganda...
Greenwatch conducted two (2) dialogue trainings with the communities of Rakai and Kyotera districts. The objective of the community trainings and dialogue was to build their capacity in monitoring petroleum activities of the EACOP so as to promote...
In 2013, people (plaintiffs) from Buhungiro-Tooro claiming to be lawful customary owners of the suit land, sued National Forestry Authority (NFA) for unlawfully evicting them. They claimed that the central forest reserve does not extend to the land...
On the 4th April 2020, Daily Monitor reported an oil spill after an explosion of a geothermal hole in Kigorobya Sub County, Hoima district near Lake Albert (Source: Daily Monitor) What you should know about an oil spill An oil spill is the release of...
On the 26 th and 27 th February 2020, Greenwatch conducted dialogue meetings with local government officials on enforcement of environmental standards in Rakai and Kyotera districts respectively. The one day dialogue meetings was facilitated by three...
