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NRDI Promotes environmental protection through promotion of indigenous trees

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Indigenous trees play a significant role in environmental protection due to their ecological,cultural, and economic importance. NRDI has embarked on popularizing indigenous trees byestablishing community nurseries that produce indigenous trees to conserve and protect theenvironment.The community nurseries are meant support biodiversityIndigenous trees provide habitat and food for native wildlife, including birds, insects, andmammals, they support ecosystems by maintaining the natural …

ECO SAN TOILETS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY

Ecosan (Ecological Sanitation) toilets are an innovative approach to sanitation that offerssignificant environmental, social, and economic benefits.Natural Resources Defense Initiatives (NRDI) promotes Eco san Toilets in the RwenzoriRegion in a bid to promote a clean and safe environment.Ecosan toilets convert human waste into valuable resources like compost and fertilizer,reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers which ultimately makes them suitable forenvironmental sustainability …

FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION IN FORT PORTAL CITY

Natural Resources Defense Initiatives (NRDI) alongside its partners have emphasizedForestry and conservation in Fort portal City in a bid to promote biodiversity conservation.Fort Portal City is near key ecosystems such as Kibale National Park, which is a home tochimpanzees and diverse wildlife and so, conservation helps protect these species.Additionally, Forests help regulate temperature, prevent droughts, and maintain rainfallpatterns which are …

INTERGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Integrated Water Management Development (IWMD) at NRDI Uganda focuses on restoring, protecting, and sustainably managing water resources within key catchments such as Mpanga, Semliki, and Nyamwamba. IWMD addresses the growing pressures of climate change, population growth, and ecosystem degradation by combining watershed restoration, wetland protection, soil conservation, and community-based water governance. NRDI works with local communities, water-user groups, and government …

Youth Skilling in Green Jobs

A total of 120 Youths has been trained by Natural Resources Defense Initiatives (NRDI) withFunding from ENABEL in skills of Land scaping and Compound beautification, making ofbiodegradable bags, Animal Feeds production, Making Energy saving stoves and charcoalbriquette marking among other skills.The Executive Director NRDI noted that the level of jobless among the Youth in Uganda isthreatening and leaders need to …

Preserving Wildlifes

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, and other areas including the most developed urban sites, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While …

NRDI promoting alternative livelihood in AWOJA in Katakwi District

NRDI as part of the big plan to manage well water sheds, it has embarked on promoting alternative livelihoods among the water shade communities. One of the enterprises being promoted is apiary farming or bee keeping, its highly beneficial-environmentally socially and economically. There are key reasons why bee keeping is an excellent practice for watershed areas: Bees improve pollination and …

Demo Garden Establishment in Ntoroko

In a bid to promote Alternative Income Generating Activities in Ntoroko, Natural ResourcesDefense Initiatives (NRDI) has established demo gardens to selected residents in NtorokoDistrict as a way of introducing farming as an economic activity.The action is aimed at interesting farmers into Agriculture as a way of diversifying from thetraditional cattle keeping which is the major economic activity in the area.According …

NRDI Embanks On Community Engagements In Semuliki Catchments

Natural Resources Defense Initiatives (NRDI) has embarked on community engagements inSemulik Catchment Ntoroko District in a bid to ensure River bank protection.According to Edgar Muganzi, the Executive Director NRDI, the major cause of floods inSemulik Catchment is due to environmental degradation.He says the locals are predominantly cattle keepers who graze by the River Bank hasadversely contributed to land fragmentation.“River Semulik …