Uganda: We Need to Shift the Debate On Wetlands

editorial

Experts this week warned that Wakiso District will have no wetlands in the next five years if the current rate of degradation is not checked. But it is not just Wakiso that we need to worry about. Wetlands across the country are all under threat and we may indeed have no wetlands as we know them today in the next 20 years.

Just look at the statistics: In 1964, the total area of Uganda occupied by wetlands was 32,000 square kilometres. This had dropped to 30,000km in 1999 and to 26,640km in 2005, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme.

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