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Ugandan Youth March Against Degradation of Environment

Halima Athumani

   KAMPALA, UGANDA - Nearly 1,000 young people marched Friday in Kampala
   to protest land, forest and wetland degradation around the country.

   Statistics from Uganda's forest authority show that between 1990 and
   2015, the country's forest cover dropped by half -- from 24 percent to
   12.4 percent.

   In addition, a 2015 report by the U.N. Development Program indicated
   that Uganda loses about 2 percent of its wetlands annually.

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