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- The River
The River Rwizi
…econd-longest river in Uganda after the Nile, rising in the Buhweju hills and crossing ten districts to reach Lake Victoria. Around six million people live off it. If you live anyw…
/river - The River
Catchment map
The course from the Buhweju hills to Lake Victoria, the ten districts it crosses, and the sites where we work. A catchment does not respect a district boundary. Water that falls on…
/river/map - The River
What is going wrong
…ey were issued over wetland. Headwater forest protection in Buhweju, which is the slowest-acting and longest-lasting of all of them. We work on the first two The rest we support, m…
/river/threats - The River
Wetlands and wildlife
…ltural or municipal question. What happens on a hillside in Buhweju eventually shows up in a lake ninety kilometres away. What we do about wetlands Restoration where conversion has…
/river/wetlands - The River
How the river changed
…s crossed. Six decades of change 1960s A forested catchment Buhweju's headwaters carried substantially more forest. Flow was steadier, the dry season less severe, and the basin pop…
/river/timeline - Our Work
Environmental education
…water in the school tap comes from, traced on a map to the Buhweju hills. What a wetland does, taught at a wetland rather than on a blackboard where possible. Practical tree nurse…
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Where we work
…tes. Bushenyi Upper tributaries Survey work only. No sites. Buhweju Headwaters Nothing yet. Headwater forest is the highest-value work we are not doing. Ntungamo Southern tributari…
/work/where-we-work - About
Our story
…ng with the district. It did the opposite. The next stretch Buhweju, where the river rises, is the work with the longest payback and the least funding available for it.
/about/story - News & Media
Press room
…will tell you we cannot evidence. The course: rises in the Buhweju hills, runs east and then south through the Mbarara area, and reaches Lake Victoria via the lakes of the lower c…
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