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Forest Saved from Sugar Plantations in Uganda?

By jennifer
October 18, 2007

Is this a case of biodiversity before biofuels?

"Uganda's cabinet suspended the proposal by President Yoweri Museveni to give 7,100 hectares or nearly a third of Mabira Forest to Mehta's sugar estate in May, following a public outcry...

"Critics said razing part of Mabira would have threatened rare species, dried up a watershed for streams that feed Lake Victoria and removed a crucial buffer against pollution of the lake from two industrial towns."

from Reuters via Planet Ark via Glen Barry

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