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 and a soaring demand have fuelled an environmental disaster. The effects are visible with a looming 5th failed rainfall season in a row. Besides crop failure, it is also jeopardising decades of peace-full coexistence due to scarcity of natural resources.

Kara-Tunga Foundation

As social enterprise, they are not able to solve this scale of a problem alone. They therefore launched our not-for-profit to develop sustainable answers with equitable partners.

Intervention

Kara-Tunga’s first project is called The *Karamoja Conservation Zones* Initiative. It focuses on mitigating the drivers of deforestation through supporting community conservation enterprises in key biodiversity areas on high environmental pressure by adjacent communities. Secondly on restoring degraded land and thirdly on improving the management and protection.

Partners

Funded by the great people of World Land Trust and in collaboration with Kijani Forestry, EyeOpenerWorks, NARO Uganda, National Forestry Authority.