664 HECTARES OF FOREST HAVE BEEN CLEARED. UPDATES FROM THE BUGOMA FOREST

Open Source Investigation

Two sugarcane companies have begun clearing thousands of hectares in disputed sections of Uganda’s Bugoma Forest. The Bugoma forest is critical to the ecological balance of the region and its destruction at this rate is proving to be a catastrophe. This map shows the extent of forest clearing and how fast it is happening.
From January 1, 2021 to October 25, 2021, the loss of approximately 664 hectares of Bugoma Forest (approximately 1.6% of the total area) was detected. This is the detailed report with the compromised forest area, including detection dates of deforestation occurrences.

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Forest Reserves of Uganda

Updated: 2021
National Forestry Authority, Plot 10/20, Spring Road, P.O. Box 70863, Kampala, Uganda

UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2021), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM) [Online], October 2021, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN.

Deforestation Alert

Each GLAD alert indicates a 30 by 30 meter area (around the size of two basketball courts) that has experienced a disturbance in the forest canopy, which indicates that trees in that area may have been lost or removed. The primary purpose of the GLAD alert system is to alert people to potential deforestation, but GLAD alerts also pick up additional disturbances such as rotation cycles in plantations, forest degradation from fires and storms, and natural changes like landslides and windthrows.
By clicking on the colored area in the map you can see the date of occurrence of the alert.

Hansen, Matthew C., Alexander Krylov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Peter V. Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova, Bryan Zutta, Suspense Ifo, Belinda Margono, Fred Stolle, and Rebecca Moore. “Humid Tropical Forest Disturbance Alerts Using Landsat Data.” Environmental Research Letters 11, no. 3 (2016): 034008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034008.