{"id":50846,"date":"2021-09-23T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T06:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=50846"},"modified":"2021-09-23T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T06:40:25","slug":"over-300-bn-needed-to-restore-ugandas-wetlands-and-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/over-300-bn-needed-to-restore-ugandas-wetlands-and-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 bn needed to restore Uganda’s wetlands and ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ritah Kemigisa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Uganda needs about shs395 billion in the short term to restore wetlands and forest ecosystems to a minimum projection of l0% and l5% coverage respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

This has been revealed by the minister of State for Environment Beatrice Anywar while presenting a statement on the status of environment and natural resources in Uganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anywar says Uganda\u2019s Environment and Natural Resources sub-sector has registered a tremendous decline over the last 29 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Anywar, since 1990 wetlands declined from 15.6% to 8.4% in 2017 while forests cover reduced from 24% to 9% in 2017 making Uganda among the most rapidly deforesting nations in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has attributed the decline to a number of drivers including but not limited to industrialization, unplanned urbanization, deforestation and agriculture. <\/span><\/p>\n

She adds that the high population growth rate of 3.2% annually and poverty levels is also another factor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ritah Kemigisa Uganda needs about shs395 billion in the short term to restore wetlands and forest ecosystems to a minimum projection of l0% and l5% coverage respectively. This has been revealed by the minister of State for Environment Beatrice Anywar while presenting a statement on the status of environment and natural resources in Uganda. Anywar says Uganda\u2019s Environment and Natural Resources sub-sector has registered a tremendous decline over the last 29 years. According to Anywar, since 1990 wetlands declined from 15.6% to 8.4% in 2017 while forests cover reduced from 24% to 9% in 2017 making Uganda among the most rapidly deforesting nations in the world. She has attributed the decline to a number of drivers including but not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":50847,"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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50846","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\/50846"}],"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=50846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}