Nwoya, Uganda – At dawn on the edge of Nyamukino Reserve in Nwoya District, ranger Ana moves silently through mist-laden savannah woodlands, boots damp with dew and ash from an overnight bushfire. She halts to consult a portable GPS device, noting recent African elephant tracks in the earth, then raises binoculars to survey the skyline for […]
The Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), part of the wider Albertine Rift, is facing increasing pressure from land grabs and large-scale extractive projects. Cross-border oil developments like Uganda’s Tilenga project and the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) threaten local ecosystems and communities around Lake Albert, yet Congolese indigenous people have largely been excluded from […]
Credit: CRI/ONG and MEDO (via the République Démocratique du Congo project launch for the support and conservation of the forest capital of the Kingwaya community). Environmental Defenders (ED) warmly welcomes a historic milestone in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): the President of the DRC has signed into law the country’s first-ever national land-use planning […]
At Ubongwa, a Lake Albert landing site on the side of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), residents complain about fish price increases. A kilogramme of fish on the local market sells for 15,000 Congolese Francs or around $6. Two years ago, the same amount of fish went for $4. According to locals at Ubongwa, […]
In a powerful demonstration of community-led environmental restoration, Vision Collective pour le Changement Integral (VCCI) has joined forces with Environmental Defenders (ED) to launch a large-scale tree-planting campaign aimed at revitalizing the Lake Albert Basin in Mahagi, Democratic Republic of Congo. This ambitious initiative, officially launched on Saturday, May 31, is in honour of World […]