Uganda scraps controversial rainforest plan

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Wed Oct-17-07 11:22 AM
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Uganda scraps controversial rainforest plan

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1723990720071017

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has agreed to scrap an unpopular plan to give a swath of protected rainforest to a sugar planter, the independent Daily Monitor said on Wednesday.

Government officials were not immediately available for comment on what the newspaper said was a final decision not to allow Mabira forest to be destroyed and replaced with sugarcane.

"We have committed ourselves to conserving Mabira Forest," Finance Minister Ezra Suruma was quoted by the paper as saying at a Commonwealth meeting on climate change in Guyana.

"There is other land in Uganda suitable for sugarcane growing," he added.

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Wed Oct-17-07 08:47 PM
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1. great news!

:woohoo:

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