The Wildlife Robbery: What Uganda Loses When an Elephant or...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA The elephant was worth more alive than dead, but that is not how everyone living around Uganda’s national protected areas sees it. For a farmer whose garden...
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From Shade Trees to Hope: How Agroforestry is Transforming Lives...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA Standing in his coffee garden in Ganyenda-Kinoni Parish, Kamwenge District, Isidoro Ndyabwe carefully examines rows of young trees stretching across his farm. A few years ago, the...
How ECOTRUST Agroforestry and Carbon Credits Are Transforming Climate Resilience...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA At the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda, the sound of rushing water has become a warning. During heavy rains, rivers descend violently from the...
From Scars to Sustainability: Atiak’s Climate-Smart Comeback
By Delicate Sive The January sun in Atiak Town Council, Amuru District in northern Uganda, does more than shine; it punishes. The air is so dry that it carries dust...
U.S. Hit by 23 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters in 2025, Climate...
BY ALEX BALUKU The United States experienced its third-highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2025, according to a new analysis by Climate Central, underscoring the growing frequency...
Yumbe District: Yumbe restores 25% of Forest cover from 2021
By: Robert Mone and Moureen Biira Ten years later, Yumbe District has taken strong measures to restore forests that were heavily degraded by refugee-related activities. By 2010, Yumbe District had...
The Lake That No Longer Feeds Us: Climate Pressures Push...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA It was a bright morning when I journeyed through the sweeping plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park, heading toward the ancient salt lake of Katwe, nestled in...
Climate Smart Farming in Uganda: The Rise of Knowledge Based...
A photo story by Curity Ogada Northern Uganda is Uganda’s best kept secret. Gulu is at the center of this treasure, a city so vibrant it almost never sleeps, a...
Broken Dreams in the Floods: How Climate Displacement Fuels Teenage...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA Torrential floods, fueled by changing weather patterns and melting glaciers from the Rwenzori Mountains, tore through villages, flattening homes, sweeping away crops, livestock, and hope. Among those...
Uganda’s Climate Justice Plea: From Kasese’s Flooded Villages to Karamoja’s...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA AND ALEX BALUKU On a humid afternoon in Kasese District, the sound of rushing water is never far away. For the families living at the foothills of...
