Kara-Tunga Foundation - under the Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative - has trained farmers in Moroto and Nakapiripirit District in the basics of beekeeping. The training prepares farmers to manage beehives which will be placed in the Conservation Zones. This initiative seeks to diversify people’s livelihoods which, crucially, promote nature conservation, particularly for trees. Reflecting on [...]
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Bee-Keeping Training for Farmers in Karamoja
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Capacity building of local leaders
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Karamoja Conservation Zones in Ugandan newspaper
The Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative is featured in the Ugandan New Vision newspaper. The article highlights the strong relationship between livelihoods and deforestation. The Kara-Tunga Foundation project focuses greatly on tackling the root causes of deforestation: poverty, crop failure, and lack of alternative livelihoods. We do so by supporting the incubation of agroforestry businesses and [...] More -
Tackling Karamoja’s booming charcoal business
Learn how the Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative is tackling the booming charcoal business in Karamoja by incubating sustainable forest-based businesses. The feature shares more about the root causes of deforestation in our target areas. It also showcases how to community is raising tree seedlings to produce sustainable charcoal and conduct climate smart agriculture as well [...] More -
Bicycles for conservation in Karamoja
Bicycles for conservation in Karamoja - To reduce the carbon footprint and cost of our operations, we have ordered Ugandan-made reliable and strong bicycles from a fantastic social enterprise called CooP-Uganda (Cycling Out Of Poverty). The bicycles will be used by the Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative for the parish based employees to conduct monitoring, sensitising [...] More -
Supporting Collaborative Forest Management Groups (CFM) in southern Karamoja
We are proud to support the first two Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) Groups of southern Karamoja with Karamoja Conservation Zones Initiative. The CFM group in an effort of Uganda Government National Forestry Authority to improve forest conservation and the livelihoods of forest-adjacent communities. Karamoja is unique compared to other Central Forest Reservers in Uganda. The [...] More -
Kara-Tunga launches tree planting Karamoja Conservation Zones
After months of preparations, Kara-Tunga Foundation launches tree planting for Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative. During Kara-Tunga's 8 years of operations, it has seen woodlands vanishing in just days. Fully loaded lorries exporting charcoal to the capital city. Illegal logging on commercial scale and exploitation of rural communities. Drivers of threats Poverty, lack of alternative income [...] More -
Bats and Birds Research, Pian-Upe – Mt Kadam Zone
18-27th March 2023, Bats and Birds Research in Pian-Upe - Mount Kadam Zone for Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative. Written by Brian Lokutae, Kara-Tunga Foundation Field Coordinator. The research team The team was led by Chris Ketola and 10 other volunteers from Fauna Forever International which is a Peruvian non-profit organisation. Their mission is to build [...] More -
Pian-Upe Eco Camp listed as eBird Hotspot
International bird observations platform eBird approved the Pian-Upe Eco Camp as bird watching hotspot. This is a great achievement of Kara-Tunga Foundation's - Karamoja Conservation Zones initiative who established the camp as research and monitoring centre. The hotspot is located at the southern slopes of Mount Kadam Central Forest Reserve and at the boundaries of [...] More -
Vacancy: Agroforestry Parish Coordinator, South Karamoja (Closed)
2nd March 2023, Moroto - Karamoja Conservation Zones Initiative under the Kara-Tunga Foundation is recruiting Agroforestry Parish Coordinators to work in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda. Position title: Agroforestry Parish Coordinator Duty Station: Karenga, Kaabong, Moroto and Nakapiripirit Districts Contract: 1 Year Report to: District Coordinators Responsibility: To manage and supervise extension workers and project [...] More
