If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mabira is a surviving fragment of lowland forest that’s now an important refuge for a diverse range of animals and plants in central Uganda. The ...

The government is set to give away a crucial part of Mabira Central Forest reserve to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd to expand their sugar cane fields. This is in spite of protests from the general ...

Mabira is the word almost every Ugandan on social networking sites has mentioned in the last one week. The Mabira Forest is found in central Uganda near the capital Kampala. It’s one of the few ...

UGANDA (eTN) – This week the world celebrated International Forest Day and, I guess true to form, I felt the time was right to dedicate some thoughts to the forests in our region. UGANDA (eTN) – This ...

Mabira Forest Highway is a preferred route by many motorists due to its wider lanes, shorter distance, and quicker access to destinations. However, it has earned a notorious reputation as a dangerous ...

Kampala — For all the years driving through Mabira Forest, I followed the advice of a good friend who said: once you reach the forest, inhale the fragrance of the trees and shrubs, it is such a ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) – In the recent “state of the nation” address by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni he again took a swipe at conservation groups over the Mabira Forest give away to a sugar baron ...

Conservationists in Uganda are fighting a last-ditch battle to stop the destruction of a forest reserve by a sugar corporation friendly with the government. The Mabira Forest Reserve, on the north ...

At Lusozi Primary School in Lugazi, a school that sits on top of a hill surrounded by sugarcane plantations along the Kampala-Jinja highway, Primary Four (P.4) was the most interesting class to me.

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 ...