
Community Restoration of Bamboos in Echuya Forest Reserve Key Biodiversity Area in Uganda
Grantee Name: Kigezi Initiative for Women and Children Empowerment and Development-Uganda
- Hotspot
- Eastern Afromontane
- Location
- Uganda
- Amount
- $34,997
- Dates
- Jul 2018 – Oct 2019
- Keywords
- Community-based conservation, Gender, Habitat conservation and management, Indigenous People, Livelihoods, Non-timber Forest Products (incl. fuelwood), Reforestation, Restoration, Ecosystem resilience
Promote sustainable management and harvesting of bamboo at Echuya Forest for conservation and livelihood purposes. Planting and growing of bamboo (restoration and reforestation); removal of alien species; training in sustainable forest management; value addition of bamboo products; and monitoring of the restored area will contribute to an improvement of this NTFP ecosystem service for the benefit of nature and people.
2 Improve the protection and management of the KBA network throughout the hotspot.
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