{"id":43988,"date":"2020-12-29T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=43988"},"modified":"2020-12-29T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:25:10","slug":"seek-uwas-services-to-remove-birds-at-the-parliament-nema-tells-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/seek-uwas-services-to-remove-birds-at-the-parliament-nema-tells-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek UWA\u2019s services to remove birds at Parliament, NEMA tells Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31430\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/00351259-c032d06fabc257939a4ddc88cca07fab-arc614x376-w614-us1-e1506000508771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/00351259-c032d06fabc257939a4ddc88cca07fab-arc614x376-w614-us1-e1506000508771.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/00351259-c032d06fabc257939a4ddc88cca07fab-arc614x376-w614-us1-e1506000508771-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/00351259-c032d06fabc257939a4ddc88cca07fab-arc614x376-w614-us1-e1506000508771-270x160.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><br \/>\nThe National Environment Management Authority has asked parliament to seek the services of the Uganda Wildlife Authority to remove birds that invaded the parliament premises.<\/p>\n<p>In September this year, the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga asked the Authority to relocate invading Marabou Storks from Parliament which legislators said had become a nuisance and could spread zoonotic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>NEMA Executive Director Dr Tom Okurut advises parliament to engage the Uganda Wildlife Authority for a lasting solution.<\/p>\n<p>Marabou Storks and Cattle Egrets have for several years pitched camp on trees in the parliament\u2019s parking lot and other places in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Environment Management Authority has asked parliament to seek the services of the Uganda Wildlife Authority to remove birds that invaded the parliament premises. In September this year, the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga asked the Authority to relocate invading Marabou Storks from Parliament which legislators said had become a nuisance and could spread zoonotic diseases. NEMA Executive Director Dr Tom Okurut advises parliament to engage the Uganda Wildlife Authority for a lasting solution. Marabou Storks and Cattle Egrets have for several years pitched camp on trees in the parliament\u2019s parking lot and other places in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}