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Environmental Defenders raise people’s awareness of the agroecosystem and how important it is to keep food secure
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The Environmental Defenders ran a one-day awareness and community sensitization activity on Thursday, the 30th of 2023. The goal of the activity was to educate and sensitize the smallholder farmers ...
1000 women joined Environmental Defenders and Radio Terra FM in celebrating International Women’s Day in 2023
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Radio Terra FM and Environmental Defenders celebrated International Women’s Day in 2023 by devoting a week’s worth of programming to women and girls. This programming featured news and stories about ...
Women and girls from Uganda’s Lake Albert region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo observed the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
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Environmental Defenders organized a number of events between November 25 and December 10 to promote women’s rights among the fishing villages in the Lake Albert region of Uganda and the ...
DRC journalists visited Radio Terra FM for experience exchange visits and learning tours
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A group of journalists from the Mahagi territory local branch of the National Press Union of Congo (UNPC), led by the chairman Mr. Samuel Munguromo Atido, visited Radio Terra FM ...
Environmental Defenders organized cleaning operations to remove plastic debris and polythene bags from a fishing community on Lake Albert
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Plastic pollution is a common problem in the Lake Albert region because it is widely available, commonly used, and often discarded carelessly. Because of its strength and durability, plastics discarded ...
Environmental Defenders hosted the second environmental conservation and human rights education through sport event
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Community education and awareness-building about environmental protection, human rights, and livelihoods are priorities of Environmental Defenders. In order to accomplish this, sporting activities and public discussions are organized, and residents ...
Agriculture, Livelihoods, And Conservation Project Baseline Survey in Luli Kayonga Central Forest Reserve And Nearby Fishing Villages Dei Subcounty, Packwach District
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In February 2022, Environmental Defenders starded an Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation Baseline Survey with the main objective of understanding and documenting the prevailing conditions of communities living adjacent to Luli ...
The last line of defence. Halting the Ecological Crisis and Ecosystem Collapse of the Congo Basin Edge
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Congo Basin rainforests are ignored or downplayed. Between 2008 and 2017, the Congo Basin received just 11.5% of international financial flows for forest protection and sustainable management in tropical areas, ...
Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation Project Baseline Survey: Preliminary Results and Recommendations
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Towards the end of January 2022, the Environmental Defenders commissioned a study on “Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation”. The main objective of the proposed Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation baseline survey was ...
Challenges faced by small holder farmers in Uganda and how they can be addressed
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The view on productive agriculture as critical for employment creation and poverty reduction is now widely shared within the development regions in Uganda especially among the smallholder farmers. Being a ...
Using Land Degradation Neutrality as a pathway to climate security and protect indigenous women’s rights
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By 2050, the global population is expected to be 9.7 billion, increasing the demand for agricultural products including food, feed, fibre, and fuel. About 25% of the total global land ...
Among pandemics, elections and human rights abuses. Testimonies and feedback from Women defenders
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The overall goal of Environmental Defenders’ program Defend Defenders is to contribute to the enhancement of the respect of human rights in Uganda by strengthening the physical and digital security ...
New partenership in restoring 450 acres of native savannah and dry grassland ecosystems
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The Lake Albert region is a unique ecological zone with a rich array of biodiversity, from fungi to mountain gorillas, and over 42 bird species.  Unfortunately, oil and gas exploration, large-scale ...
“Voices of defenders”. The serial launching the “Ikolojia” podcast
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To celebrate the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, we at Environmental Defenders share with you the experiences of the long round of Women Environmental and Human Rights defenders (WEHRDs) in ...
Appeal to Ugandan Government and Oil companies operating in the Albertine Region
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Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders – WEHRDs are any individual or group working to protect or promote human rights in the context of the environment, such as the defense of ...
Security concerns in land tenure data collection, monitoring and reporting environmental crimes and human rights abuses in land disputes
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The porous borders between South Sudan, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo pass through the northern section of the Albertine Graben. It is a rural area enclosed between the ...

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