The Agago district forest officer has Monday, 20th June 2022 sent a stern warning to those cutting down trees discriminatively to desist from doing so, failure attracts fines and imprisonment as forest covers face depletion.
Areas that have faced severe forest cover depletion in Adilang town council, Adilang sub-county, among others where trees are cut for either charcoal or timbers by the majority being foreigners compared to locals.
Mr. John Okidi, the Agago district forest officer, said that the district is enduring to control and reduce the increased level of tree cutting. He added that they have partnered with the National Forest Authority (NFA) to give tree seedlings.
Okidi added that Agago district has begun registration of all forest products dealers who operate within the district, and failure to register will prevent or expel you fines up to 1 million shillings only.
According to Rainforest Mongabay reports, Pader and Agago districts have lost over 240 hectares of forest cover in ten years, and Uganda’s National Environment Management Authority, says that the country has registered better forest cover in recent years, despite increasing cases of illegal logging and forest destruction by encroachers from 9 percent in 2017 to 13 percent in 2020.
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