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Please help us Save Kafuga Forest!

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Save Kafuga Forest Campaign, 10 December 2015
We plant trees with local communities to restore forests and transform lives.

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Save Uganda's Kafuga Forest

Our partners PROBICOU (Pro Biodiversity Conservationists in Uganda) have started the long and challenging journey of working with local communities, leaders, authorities and government.  But the good work has only just started, and so we need to make sure it can be completed.

Where is Kafuga Forest?

Kafuga Forest is on the fringes of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park - a UNESCO World Heritage site in South West Uganda.  Home to many species of plants, insects and animals - just one of them being 400 of the world's remaining 880 mountain gorillas.

These critically endangered species are under threat if deforestation of Kafuga Forest is not stopped.

How will money raised be spent?

PROBICOU together with the support of communities, authorities, government and local farmers, will decide what is best for the forest and the livelihoods of those that depend on it.  

They will decide what trees to replant - trees for medicine, trees for produce like passion fruit, mangoes and avocados, trees for fodder, trees that attract honey bees, and also making sure to replant indigenous trees.  With careful planning they can return Kafuga Forest to a sustainable abundant forest, where they no longer need to encroach into Bwindi.

And the gorillas, monkeys, elephants, buck, cats, birds, and more can be left alone.

Thank you, any donation makes the world of difference.

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About the charity

Since 1922, International Tree Foundation has inspired and worked in partnership with communities across Africa and the UK to plant trees that restore and protect forests and degraded landscapes for the benefit of people and planet.

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