How Ugandan Communities Are Turning Trees into Livelihoods

For decades, conservation in Uganda was often seen as a strict choice between people and nature. Protect a forest, the old logic went, and you had to keep humans out. Communities living near forests were treated as obstacles rather than allies. For rural families, this often meant losing access to land, firewood, and other resources The post How Ugandan Communities Are Turning Trees into Livelihoods first appeared on Matooke Republic.