Browsing by Author "Uganda Wildlife Society"

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    Climate Change the Global Phenomena, Uganda in Perspective: What is it? What does Policy Makers need to know and to do?
    (Uganda Wildlife Society, 2011) Uganda Wildlife Society
    Ordinarily, any change in global temperature and rainfall over a period of time. Commonly associated with global warming, the sustained spatio-temporal differential increases in average temperature of earth near surface air and oceans since the 20th century. In practice, radiations from the sun upon reflection from the earth or ocean surface to the atmosphere are reflected back by a layer of green house gasses in the stratosphere. Green house gasses such as Carbon dioxide, Methane, Chlorofloro carbons and Nitrogen oxide come from automobile emissions, bush and charcoal burning, refrigerators and other human activities. The concentration of these green house gasses in the atmosphere, which is the problem, has been increasing among others due to diminishing forest cover in land uses.
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    Enhancing the role and visibility of forests and the forest sector in Uganda’s sustainable development
    (Uganda Wildlife Society, 2011) Uganda Wildlife Society
    Forests according to FAO global forest resources assessment 2010, is defined as land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters, a canopy cover of more than 10% or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. Forests among others perform the critical functions of sustaining production in agro ecosystems, energy sources, different land uses and environment quality, including climate. Seventeen percent of Uganda’s total land area is forests. Over 60% of Uganda’s forests are in land privately owned by individuals or institutions, and the remaining constitute central forest reserves (506 in total) managed by the National Forest authority and district forest reserves under the jurisdiction of local governments.