BASELINE STUDY REPORT ON POTENTIAL SITES FOR RESTORATION ALONG NABAKAZI WETLAND ECOSYSTEM IN MUBENDE DISTRICT

National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), with financial support from Partner für Klima und Natur gGmbH commissioned a baseline study to tease out the underlying causes of wetland destruction a case of Nabakazi wetland in Mubende District. The study was aimed at identifying potential sites along the Nabakazi wetland ecosystem for riverine afforestation, reforestation, and restoration. The survey focused on collectively identifying and documenting the core drivers of the Nabakazi wetland ecosystem degradation, identifying areas along the Nabakazi wetland ecosystem that needed immediate attention for restoration, co-management with wetland dependent communities. The study also captured the strategies and views relevant for sustainable buffer zones and wetland restoration by key players at all levels including the Mubende local government and lower local leaders.

NAPE chose this area because in this era of climate change, where wetland hold a lot of carbon dioxide and methane a lethal gas, there is need to keep the wetlands intact to enable them perform their functions and enhance biodiversity and combat climate change as stipulated in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Whose long term goal for 2050 on biodiversity emphasises four areas, i.e. protect and restore, prosper with nature, share benefits fairly then invest and collaborate. NAPE believes that once the restoration of wetlands is effected, community benefits of not only wetland adjacent communities, will improve while adapting and mitigating climate change impacts. This baseline therefore, fits very well in the national policies laws and presidential directives geared towards conservation of wetland and biodiversity conservation as well as The vision of Uganda’s National Biological Strategic Action Plan III (2025-2030) which is “Rich biodiversity benefiting the present and future generations.”

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Mubende District Nabakazi restoration wetland