Communities not the true threat to Mabira Forest: Q&A with Ugandan conservationist Achilles Byaruhanga

Communities not the true threat to Mabira Forest: Q&A with Ugandan conservationist Achilles Byaruhanga

Conservation groups in Uganda are working to protect Mabira Central Forest Reserve, a 30,000-hectare (74,000-acre) forest in the center of the country, close to Lake Victoria. Mabira is a surviving fragment of a semideciduous lowland forest, part of a belt of forest habitat that experts say once stretched from western Kenya across the whole of what is now Uganda. The forest reserve is now a refuge for a diverse range of animals and plants. For t…