Barriers and Opportunities for Wetland Conservation in Uganda

<p dir="ltr">Wetlands are permanent or seasonal water bodies with permanently waterlogged soil. They occupy between 10-13 percent of Uganda’s land area, and provide a range of key ecosystem services, playing an important role in local climate and water cycles, in addition to being biodiversity hotspots. While Uganda has established policy and legislative mechanisms governing wetland use, degradation continues largely due to agricultural, residential and industrial developments, leading to wetland drainage and reclamation, disrupting the functioning of the overall ecosystem, with issues of corruption and competing land tenure arrangements impacting effective governance.</p>