The article highlights the strong relationship between livelihoods and deforestation. The Kara-Tunga Foundation project focuses greatly on tackling the root causes of deforestation: poverty, crop failure, and lack of alternative livelihoods.
We do so by supporting the incubation of agroforestry businesses and climate-smart agriculture with small-holder farmers. Only then, we can talk about restoring and improving the protection of our natural resources.
Bicycles for conservation in Karamoja – To reduce the carbon footprint and cost of our operations, we have ordered Ugandan-made reliable and strong bicycles from a fantastic social enterprise called CooP-Uganda (Cycling Out Of Poverty).
International bird observations platform eBird approved the Pian-Upe Eco Camp as bird watching hotspot. This is a great achievement of Kara-Tunga Foundation‘s – Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative who established the camp as research and monitoring centre.
November 2022 – SunBird Hill Biodiversity Research Team conducted a baseline fauna inventory during a 7-day survey. The survey focused on the so-called Karamoja Conservation Zones of Mount Moroto and Mount Kadam – Pian Upe.
Learn how the Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative is tackling the booming charcoal business in Karamoja by incubating sustainable forest-based businesses.
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Karamoja Conservation Zones in Ugandan newspaper
The Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative is featured in the Ugandan New Vision newspaper.
The article highlights the strong relationship between livelihoods and deforestation. The Kara-Tunga Foundation project focuses greatly on tackling the root causes of deforestation: poverty, crop failure, and lack of alternative livelihoods.
We do so by supporting the incubation of agroforestry businesses and climate-smart agriculture with small-holder farmers. Only then, we can talk about restoring and improving the protection of our natural resources.
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