Challenge

Aloe tororoana spp-which is only restricted to Tororo District is locally endangered, vulnerable and threatened. Tororo like most districts in Uganda has lost over 80% of its vital wetlands, swamps and natural forests to agriculture, settlements, quarrying, lumbering and other human subsistence and commercial activities due to the high need for food, firewood, charcoal, and timber. The loss has had severe environmental consequences inform of tremendous loss of biodiversity, human-wildlife conflict, land degradation, flooding, erosion, destructive storms and erratic rain patterns.

Solution

This project will plant 50,000 indigenous and acclimatized trees species with communities in the severely affected region for alternative source of wood fuel, increased tree cover, wind break, restoration and livelihoods diversification. Local communities and authorities and institutions will be involved and made aware of the benefits of tree planting and environment. This will empower rural communities in the region to protect their local environment, provide alternative income, food and tree resources.

Long-Term Impact

The awareness campaigns targeting households, schools, churches and local groups and all the other institutions in the region will build the capacity of the people in tree nursery establishment and management, nurture trees and use them sustainably. Knowledge of planting and protecting trees will be passed on for generations. It will also provide alternative sources of food, firewood, increased tree cover, reduced pressure on natural forest and mitigate negative impacts of climate change.