Building a new generation of local conservationists: how improving education in Uganda may save one of the world’s great forests

Kibale Forest Book Project. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Ross.

June 20, 2013, news.mongabay.com | “Conservation work is often focused on the short-term: protecting a forest from an immediate threat, saving a species from pending extinction, or a restoring an ecosystem following degradation. While short-term responses are often borne of necessity, one could argue that long-term thinking in conservation and environmental work (as in all human endeavors) is woefully neglected, especially in the tropics. This is why programs like the Kasiisi Project are so important.”

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Conservation work is often focused on the short-term: protecting a forest from an immediate threat, saving a species from pending extinction, or a restoring an ecosystem following degradation. While short-term responses are often borne of necessity, one could argue that long-term thinking in conserv…”
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