Histories and genealogies of Ugandan forest and wildlife conservation

Banana, A.Y.; Nsita, Steve; Bomuhangi, Allan

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“…Also of concern are the threatened wooded grassland (savanna) habitat types that are mostly outside protected areas. As Uganda’s protected area network was being established, the key priority of the British Protectorate was the management of forest resources and regulation of game hunting (Banana et al, 2018). The designation of game reserves did lead to some threatened savanna vegetation being designated within protected areas, including the Murchison Falls National Parks (originally designated a game reserve) which host significant areas of both moist (EN) and dry (VU) Combretum savanna and Vitex-Phyllanthus-Shirakiopsis-Terminalia and Terminalia glaucescens woodland (VU).…”

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Improving the application of Important Plant Areas to conserve threatened habitats: a case study of Uganda

Richards,

Kalema,

Ojelel

et al. 2024

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Important Plant Areas (IPAs) are a successful method of identifying priority areas for plant conservation. Assessment of IPAs, however, often relies on criteria related to species, while incorporation of habitats has been less consistent. Using Uganda as a case study, we test the application of the threatened habitat criterion (criterion C). We identified nationally threatened habitats using Red List of Ecosystems criteria and assess, for the first time, how differing application of thresholds under criterion C can influence IPA network outcomes. Eleven threatened habitats were identified, with declines switching from predominantly forest to savanna after the mid-20th century. Significantly, we found current IPA guidance on use of Criterion C needlessly limits the number of sites that qualify as IPAs. The five best sites threshold is reserved for countries where quantitative data is unavailable, however, the application of the relevant thresholds to quantitative data largely generated fewer than five IPAs, comparably limiting conservation opportunities identified. We recommend, therefore, that the five best threshold is available for application on both qualitative and quantitative data. This will bolster the value of IPAs in conserving and restoring threatened and ecologically important habitats under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

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Improving the application of Important Plant Areas to conserve threatened habitats: a case study of Uganda

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Kalema,

Ojelel

et al. 2024

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“…In Uganda, the British colonial administration declared most of the land, including large areas of woodlands and forests, as Crown Land, from which people could be evicted any time, and which could only be accessed for subsistence by people with so-called 'privileges'. Some of the forest dwellers such as the Batwa, Ik and Benet were allowed to continue residing in the forests, but only as a privilege, not a right (Banana, Nsita and Bomuhangi 2018). Furthermore, because of epidemics such as sleeping sickness, rinderpest and smallpox, communities were resettled to other places (Banana, Nsita, and Bomuhangi 2018).…”

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“…Some of the forest dwellers such as the Batwa, Ik and Benet were allowed to continue residing in the forests, but only as a privilege, not a right (Banana, Nsita and Bomuhangi 2018). Furthermore, because of epidemics such as sleeping sickness, rinderpest and smallpox, communities were resettled to other places (Banana, Nsita, and Bomuhangi 2018). In the areas they left behind, the number of wild animals increased, and the vegetation spread, and some of these areas were then declared reserves.…”

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THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

2023

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Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.

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Histories and genealogies of Ugandan forest and wildlife conservation

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Improving the application of Important Plant Areas to conserve threatened habitats: a case study of Uganda

Improving the application of Important Plant Areas to conserve threatened habitats: a case study of Uganda

THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

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