An official from the National Forestry Authority says the portion of land at Mabira Forest that government plans to giveaway to Indian investor - Mehta for sugarcane production is not degraded as earlier stated by government. The forestry official John Giribo today made the remarks at Mabira Forest where he accompanied a group of opposition MPs on a fact finding mission to establish the level of degradation of the forest with a view to replant the area.. + Informações

MPs of the ruling NRM party who were invited by President Yoweri Museveni to his country home in Rwakitura yesterday on the Mabira giveaway issue have today been named. Their fellow NRM MPs who addressed a press conference at Parliament this morning warned that their party chairman is destined for more political troubles if he does not concede on Mabira. Those who were named told NTV that they met the President but the meeting was on other developmental matters and not the giveaway of Mabira.. + Informações

Environment Activists under the Save Mabira Crusade who held a three hour meeting with the president in Ntungamo on Sunday, are now vowing to go the International Court of Justice to block the proposed giveaway of the forest if government insists on it. President Yoweri Museveni has been the lead promoter of the proposal to give away 71000 hectares of Mabira forest to the Mehta group for sugarcane growing. The activists clam that the Mehta Group is insisting on taking part of the forest in an effort to increase their sugar productivity with more cane acreage. Craig Kadoda with that twist to the Mabira question.. + Informações

The Mabira central forest reserve, on the shores of Lake Victoria hosts valuable wildlife, serves as a timber resource, and provides the balance in the ecosystem. But, the government is planning to sell a third of the forest to a sugar company, a proposition that has caused hue and cry. In Monday's Eco Talk feature, Josephine Karungi speaks to the experts to get their views about the essence of Mabira forest and why losing even a small size of it could be disastrous to the country.. + Informações

www.ntvuganda.co.ug Environmental activists have re-grouped with the sole purpose of blocking the government from giving away a section of Mabira Forest for sugarcane growing. The activists met here in Kampala two days after President Museveni announced that the government would apportion degraded parts of Mabira forest for cane growing.. + Informações

www.ntvuganda.co.ug President Museveni has an uphill task of convincing his own party to endorse the planned giveaway of 7100 hectares of Mabira Forest for sugarcane growing. Opposition is coming from many quarters including his own backyard, if details emerging from an NRM caucus meeting held at State House Entebbe last evening, are to be believed.. + Informações

The Mabira rainforest in Uganda has been protected since 1932 - but now the Government has revived a plan to give away nearly one-quarter of it to grow sugar cane. Environmentalists say the government is killing the future of the country's forests, while officials say they are only clearing damaged and unsustainable areas. Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from Kampala.. + Informações

Tonight, a section of NRM Mps are alleging that President Yoweri Museveni has written to them seeking their support in the planned give away of a section of Mabira Forest to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd, SCOUL. The Mps told NTV that they have been furnished afresh with an article written by President Museveni in 2007 in which he explains why he supports Mabira Forest give away. In the 7 page article titled "Why I support Mabira forest giveaway to the Mehta Group", and placed in the Mps pigeon holes in parliament, the President argues that the government does not have money to police and protect the forests.. + Informações

www.ntvuganda.co.ug Buganda Kingdom's offer of land to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited, SCOUL, for sugarcane growing, hangs in the balance tonight as a new controversy emerges over the ownership of the piece of land. NTV has established that the land in Kyaggwe which the Kingdom has offered the Mehta family to grow sugar is currently inhabited by some 40-thousand squatters who are not willing to move out.. + Informações

President Museveni has invited twenty members of the save Mabira crusade to meet him in Ntungamo on sunday to discuss issues related to the recent heated debate of whether a degraded part of Mabira should or should not be given to Scoul a sugar producing company. The convener of the crusade Frank Muramuzi told NTV that the invite comes in perfect time for them to share with the president their latest information concerning the dangers of depleting the forest.. + Informações

Tonight, the battle for Mabira Forest is headed to a regional court, the East African Court of Justice. Environmental activists say they are suing the government of Uganda over its intention to give a piece of Mabira Forest to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd, SCOUL. Similar cases filed in 2007 against the government will also be reactivated, as Craig Kadoda now reports.. + Informações

Uganda will have lost all its forest cover in the next 50 years if the current rate of depletion of forests estimated to be at 2.1-percent annually continues. A Makerere University scholar Dr. Fred Babwetera says these research findings need to be taken seriously to save the country from desertification.. + Informações

www.ntvuganda.co.ug A group of journalists from Kampala went to Mabira Forest earlier today in search of the controversial piece of land meant to be given away to SCOUL for sugarcane growing. But for hours, the journalists accompanied by government officials, among them State Minister for Environment Flavia Munaaba, and Information minister Mary Karooro Okurut failed to locate the 7100 hectares of the said degraded land that is meant to be given away. The 5 hour search for the land yielded nothing as National Forestry officials did not seem to know where the land was.. + Informações

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The controversy over the President's move to give away part of Mabira forest for sugarcane cultivation hits another phase with environmentalists now directly pitted against business mogul, Mahendra Mehta. This as Mehta affirmed his interest in acquiring part of the forest reserve to expand his plantations to increasing sugar production in the country. Environment activists however say that they will take Mehta head-on and vow to carry out mass demonstrations across the country so as to protect one of Uganda's biggest natural forests. The latest reaction from environmentalists over the planned giveaway of Mabira forest comes a day after businessman; Mahendra Mehta of the Sugar Corporation of Uganda SCOUL reaffirmed his position in acquiring part of Mabira forest reserve. This was reportedly at a meeting between the businessman, environmentalists and the President Yoweri Museveni in Ntungamo district, Western Uganda. Media reports indicated that on the 3rd of September 2011, Mehta had given up his intentions of acquiring the 7100 hectares of the reserve. Against the impasse, environmentalists have now vowed to take businessman head-on through the courts of law or carry out mass demonstrations across the country. They also say that the donor community should engage government to battle against the give away citing that Uganda is signatory to a number of key international and regional conventions that protect forests. This includes the United Nations frame work convention on .... + Informações

www.ntvuganda.co.ug Mabira forest which straddles the Jinja-Kampala highway, is valued for its rich bio-diversity. It is for this reason that the government made a bold move and evicted encroachers who had occupied the forest in the early 1990s.. + Informações

Mabira Forest, near the city of Kampala in Uganda. It is a tropical forest. Activities there include hiking, bird watching,mountain bike riding and camping.. + Informações

This is a tape showing what happened during the protests by Baganda against the Ugandan government selling the Mabira forest.. + Informações

Mabira Forest is found in Uganda. It is one of the few surviving natural rain forests. Located 56 Km from Kampala (capital city of Uganda) it is found on the Jinja highway, approximately 60 minutes drive. It is a compact forest offering tropical high forest ecosystem in which to enjoy fabulous bird watching, mountain biking and nature walks. You will be sure to enjoy the beauty when you visit!. + Informações

Prevent destruction of the Mabira Forest. + Informações

Spectrum Friday August 19th 2011 Topic: Reviewing the Week Guests: Hon. Mike Sebalu; Uganda EALA representative (NRM NEC Member) Hon: Christine Bakko Abia; Arua District Woman MP Mr. Nicolas Opiyo: Legal Consultant at AKIJUL; political and social commentator.. + Informações

Budiope constituency MP Henry Balikoowa died Sunday night after his car crashed into a SCOUL tractor transporting sugarcanes.. + Informações

Puesta del Sol Marimba Band performs at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue, Wash., on April 21, 2010.. + Informações

Alya nnyama ya nkima. + Informações

This is one of the most dense Forest Of Uganda, located about 40Km from the Capital Kampala... Well as most of u must be knowing the fact that the controversy which errupted in April 2007, in which mainly Indians were targeted was caused due to this Forest. The Reason behind is the well known Industrialist Mehta Group had acquired the Mabira Land for Sugarcane plantation from the Govt. Of Uganda.... for which this beautiful creation of God would have to be cut down. Local people specially the Villagers surrounding Mabira took an agitation against this act.. + Informações