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Uganda's desertification ...
Filed in archive Sustainable Development by mstandaert on January 9, 2007
Uganda's desertification ...
From All Africa:

As the government pushes for industrialisation at the expense of the country's limited forest cover, Uganda once dubbed the pearl of Africa may eventually become a sterile desert, a fate that has befallen 30 percent of the world's dry lands. According to a World Bank report, three-quarters of dry lands in Africa and North America are at some stage of desertification.

Biodiversity defined as the full variety of life from genes to species to ecosystems, is in trouble when government's deforestation plans go ahead un-abetted.

Although tropical rain forests like the Bugala forests on Kalangala Island cover only 6 percent of the land surface, they contain more than half of the rare species of plants and animals of the entire world.




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