The Ministry of Water and Environment is in the final stages of discussion with the Judiciary and other relevant bodies to have special courts established in order to handle environmental cases.
The Bugoma forest boundary line has been a source of contention between NFA and Veterans under Tulipona Veterans Association after the latter encroached on part of the forest in Nyairongo village Kabwoya Sub County, in 2012.
National Forestry Authority (NFA) has embarked on a re-demarcation and marking of forest boundaries across the country to curtail encroachment into the protected areas.
National Forestry Authority-NFA is considering extending the deadline for the eviction of forest reserve encroachers in Kibaale district to January next year after failing to push them out today. In May this year, NFA and Kibaale district officials set Monday August 26th as deadline for over 15000 encroachers on all 15 central forest reserve to vacate.
Forest authorities in Kibaale are divided over operations to flush out encroachers from central forest reserves in the district. The disagreement is between the Kibaale district forest officer Wilson Kyamuhondire and the National Forestry Authority-NFA team led by the Kagadi Sector Manager, Bruno Amanyi.
About 500 people who have been settling on Kasongoire central forest land in Hoima district are to be evicted, National Forestry Authority (NFA) has announced.
National Forestry Authority-NFA executive director, Michael Mugisa, has asked encroachers in the central forest reserves in Kibaale district to vacate within two months.
Residents of Chakulia village, Ludara Sub-County in Koboko district, whom the National Forest Authority [NFA] gave an ultimatum of February 27, 2012 to vacate Mt. Kei Forest Reserve, have threatened to petition President Yoweri Museveni over the decision.
