After months of preparations, Kara-Tunga Foundation launches tree planting for Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative.
During Kara-Tunga’s 8 years of operations, it has seen woodlands vanishing in just days. Fully loaded lorries exporting charcoal to the capital city. Illegal logging on commercial scale and exploitation of rural communities.
Drivers of threats
Poverty, lack of alternative income and a soaring demand have fuelled an environmental disaster. The effects are visible with a looming 5th failed rainfall season in a row. Besides crop failure, it is also jeopardising decades of peace-full coexistence due to scarcity of natural resources.
Kara-Tunga Foundation
As social enterprise, they are not able to solve this scale of a problem alone. They therefore launched our not-for-profit to develop sustainable answers with equitable partners.
Intervention
Kara-Tunga’s first project is called The *Karamoja Conservation Zones* Initiative. It focuses on mitigating the drivers of deforestation through supporting community conservation enterprises in key biodiversity areas on high environmental pressure by adjacent communities. Secondly on restoring degraded land and thirdly on improving the management and protection.
Hiking Mountain Moroto, all you need to know – Mountain Moroto is the highest mountain in Uganda’s Northeaster Karamoja sub-region and offers a variety of hiking, walking and trekking options.
Maria Schiffer, 11th December 2022 – I’m back in Uganda because of Theo, whom I met while working on my book Eating With Africa In 2018. I’ve been traveling along the Warrior Nomad Trail the last week, researching and experiencing Community Tourism.
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Kara-Tunga launches tree planting Karamoja Conservation Zones
After months of preparations, Kara-Tunga Foundation launches tree planting for Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative.
During Kara-Tunga’s 8 years of operations, it has seen woodlands vanishing in just days. Fully loaded lorries exporting charcoal to the capital city. Illegal logging on commercial scale and exploitation of rural communities.
Drivers of threats
Poverty, lack of alternative income and a soaring demand have fuelled an environmental disaster. The effects are visible with a looming 5th failed rainfall season in a row. Besides crop failure, it is also jeopardising decades of peace-full coexistence due to scarcity of natural resources.
Kara-Tunga Foundation
As social enterprise, they are not able to solve this scale of a problem alone. They therefore launched our not-for-profit to develop sustainable answers with equitable partners.
Intervention
Kara-Tunga’s first project is called The *Karamoja Conservation Zones* Initiative. It focuses on mitigating the drivers of deforestation through supporting community conservation enterprises in key biodiversity areas on high environmental pressure by adjacent communities. Secondly on restoring degraded land and thirdly on improving the management and protection.
Partners
Funded by the great people of World Land Trust and in collaboration with Kijani Forestry, EyeOpenerWorks, NARO Uganda, National Forestry Authority.
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