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Rwensambya Central Forest Reserve

Rwensambya Central Forest Reserve is a tropical forest located in Kyegegwa district.[1][2][3] It covers an area of 671 hectares.[2][3][4][5][6]

Wildlife

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The reserve is a home to chimpanzees, monkeys such as red-tailed and black and white colobus monkeys, mangabeys and birds. Chimpanzees are among the major causes of death in this reserve.[7]

 
Adult male Eastern chimpanzee
 
Red-tailed monkey

Conservation status

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in 2014, the NFA started a campaign of evicting all the people who illegally stayed in the government forest reserves around Uganda including Kyegegwa and Kyenjojo after Yoweri Kaguta Museveni issued a directive to evict those people.[8]

Associations such as Kabweeza Tree Growers Association (KTGA) have been founded to preserve the forest reserve. But KTGA also rented the forest reserve land to people and they planted in maize and other crops.[2]

The staff of National Forestry Authority (NFA) slashed the crops which included coffee trees, maize plants and ovacado trees claiming them to be planted with in the demacations for the forest reserve.[2] The natives pleaded that NFA had planted trees and branded NFA poles that acted as boundaries for the forest reserve and their land.[2][9] NFA set up monitoring and supervision offices within this reserve to monitor the human activities.[10]

In 2021, the UNCHR partnered with NFA to replant trees and managed to restored 100 hectares of forest cover this reserve with the seedlings that were provided by the NFA.[1]

Threats

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Some of the common threats to the forest reserve include human activities such as charcoal burning and production, illegal logging, cultivation/agriculture.[8][2][7][11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Natural resources and shared environment". UNCHR. 2021. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Ab'e Kyegegwa abeesenza ku ttaka ly'ekibira basattira". Bukedde. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  3. ^ a b "3.2 - Sensitivity of forests". EIN Uganda Clearinghouse. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  4. ^ "Draft Environmental and Social Management Framework". World Bank. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  5. ^ Draft Environmental and Social Management Framework (PDF). Uganda: Ministry of Water & Environment - Uganda. 2020-01-13. p. 17.
  6. ^ Plumptre, Andrew (2002). Extent and Status of the Forests in the Ugandan Albertine Rift (PDF). Wildlife Conservation Society. p. 43.
  7. ^ a b National Plan for Managing Wildlife Outside UWA Protected Areas (PDF). Uganda: Uganda Wildlife Authority. 2021. p. 40.
  8. ^ a b "NFA starts massive eviction of forest reserve encroachers". Monitor. 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  9. ^ Vote Performance Report Quarter 2 (PDF). Uganda: Ministry of Finance - Uganda. 2022. pp. 14, 25.
  10. ^ Annual Report 2019. Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE). 2019. p. 22.
  11. ^ "Executive order No3: Museveni bans charcoal trade, guides on the Balaalo". Monitor. 2023-05-25. Retrieved 2023-05-29.

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