IN BRIEF

Oct 18, 2004

Members of the NGO Forum have criticised NEMA’s recent decision to evict market vendors from the Banda wetland saying NEMA

NGO attacks
KAMPALA – Members of the NGO Forum have criticised NEMA’s recent decision to evict market vendors from the Banda wetland saying NEMA was applying double standards. This was disclosed at an environment and natural resources meeting held in Kampala recently. Sarah Kisolo of Rural Development Media Communications said the wetland policy lacked transparency.

Don decries
KAMPALA — Former deputy vice-chancellor, Prof. Opio Epelu has said the green environment at Makerere University is being degraded because of ignorance and stubbornness. Epelu said students, out of stubbornness, cut barbed wires meant to guard specific green areas like the Freedom Square and break tree branches savagely. He called on the authorities to take action against such students.

Sango rich
RAKAI — SANGO Bay ecological systems is one of the richest in biological diversity, a researcher with the Wetlands Inspection, R. Kyambade has said. He said Sango has 40% of the biological diversity countrywide.

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