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climate! With
this Tree Talk,
18,000 schools
countrywide are
receiving tree seed.
Start your nursery
and woodlot
British High Commission now.Right: Brenda
This special Tree Talk on climate
change was produced with the Uganda
08
of the Twogere Kaati
Carbon Bureau. It is sponsored by the
pril 20
No.1 A Radio Program with
Vol. 6
British High Commission in Kampala.
The British Government is committed
to a low carbon global economy. her mvule seedlings
Trees naturally trap also has one of the it releases the areas, accounts for
carbon dioxide, best climates in the carbon dioxide that 20% of man-made
Save ts
which they use world for growing was stored. This greenhouse gas
during photo- trees. But more and contributes to global emissions each
fores
synthesis. At the more trees are being warming. Cutting year. You can fight
same time they emit cut down for down forests also this by protecting
w
oxygen, which we charcoal, firewood means that there the forests that are
Gro s
need to breathe. and timber and to are fewer trees to left and by growing
Uganda is lucky, it clear land for
tree
produce oxygen. more new trees.
still has some agriculture. When Deforestation,
natural forests. It the wood is burned, especially in tropical
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because they trap the sun's naturally act like a blanket released. from the destruction of
All over the world, the heat like the plastic and keep the Earth warm. Cars, planes and factories forests.
weather is changing: sheeting that is used to This is good: without burn fuel, releasing carbon
this is called climate make greenhouses. them, the Earth would be dioxide into the To reduce the carbon
change. Climate change Have you seen such very cold! atmosphere. When forests dioxide in the atmosphere
is dangerous because it greenhouses near Entebbe are burnt, they also release and thereby fight climate
disturbs our crops, water that are used for growing Unfortunately humans carbon dioxide. change, we can grow trees
and health. flowers and vegetables? have caused too much Today 20% of all man-made and protect forests.
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water. Twenty years ago, they used weather to grow: if temperatures with diarrhoea from
to have at least six months of keep increasing, areas suitable for drinking unclean water. Pests and diseases
pasture every year. Now they have growing coffee will shrink. Farmers Higher temperatures mean
to move are now planting trees to All over the world extreme pests can move into areas that
frequently to shade their coffee. weather is increasing with were too cold for them before.
find enough big storms, such as The tsetse belt in Uganda has
grass and water Flooding Hurricane Katrina in the grown, causing more live-
for their cows. Whereas some districts are not USA, causing terrible stock to die. In 2005
receiving enough rain, others damage. grasshopper plagues destroyed
Drought is are getting too much! In 2007, crops in Katakwi district.
affecting Teso suffered terrible floods. Loss of species
Uganda's cash Families lost crops and homes, Insects, plants, birds and animals Malaria will spread to parts of
are very sensitive to even small Uganda where it has never been
changes in temperature. Climate before, such as the cool highlands.
change, plus human Temperature changes mean
impacts like the disease-carrying
deforestation, make it mosquito can breed in the
difficult for species to live new warmer areas. In
in their natural Kabale this is already
environment. happening.Have you
1906 always had malaria in your
Many will have to move to area, or has it started to
a new home, but they come?
might be blocked by Melting glaciers
rivers or human The snow on the Rwenzori
Half of the weight of this settlements. Mountains is melting,
huge mahogany tree is Can you imagine life
carbon. As it grows, it without local trees and 2005 causing the Semliki River
to shift its course. This is
pulls even more carbon wildlife? Even Uganda's
dioxide from the disrupting peoples' lives and homes.
atmosphere.
national symbol, the crested
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Send photos
of your Tree Talk
nursery and trees
to PO Box 22366,
Kampala. Win a
residential
training in tree
growing!
With this Tree Talk, 12,600 schools are receiving a packet of mvule seed. For schools in extremely dry areas such as
Karamoja, Tree Talk is sending cassia seed. The rains have begun in Uganda. Do not delay. Now is the time to prepare your seed bed.
Plant your Tree Talk seeds as soon as you receive them! You can also collect seed from local trees. Start your nursery today.
Mvule (Milicia excelsis) seedlings into small pots. Cassia (Senna siamea)
Tree Talk woodlot in Panjira PS
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is Uganda's most famous Protect your seedlings is fast growing and good
hardwood. It grows in from animals and always for poles, charcoal, This cassia and neem
three-quarters of our remember to water. furniture, shade and soil woodlot at Panjira
districts. It grows very big conservation. It resists PS in Kitgum was
and keeps growing for a After 7 months, plant termites. To germinate its planted less than two
long time. Not only does it your seedlings out by seeds, soak them for two years ago. It is
absorb a lot of carbon digging big holes and days in cold water. Plant already providing
dioxide, but in two to three filling them with good the seeds in lines and shade and will soon
years you will have a tree topsoil and compost. cover with a thin layer of provide fuel. A
you can sit under! Continue to water and rough sand. school with 1000
pupils needs about
protect them. 4000 trees or four
Mvule seeds are very small Water until the seed bed acres of woodlot to
but are easy to grow. They Watering is especially is moist. After that, water be self-sufficient in
need no special treatment. important if it is the dry the seeds every day. wood.
Plant the mvule seeds in season. Build a shade to protect
your seedbed. Cover the the seeds. They will The kitchen at
seeds with a thin Every school germinate in 6 to 18 days. Panjira PS: all
layer of soil. needs big schools need big
trees like Transplant the small amounts of wood.
Then cover Mvule to seedlings into pots 3 days Children usually
after germination. Give carry sticks from
your nursery provide home.
bed with a perma- them water everyday.
shade and nent In deforested areas
keep the soil shade and windbreaks. Keep the pots under the where there is no
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school woodlot. We are caring for
them and they are very healthy.
Write to PO Box 22366, Tree Talk, keep sending us more
Kampala. Every letter tree seeds. Namugaya Bitaminsi,
published wins a T-shirt. P6, Katala PS, Bugiri
We appeal to other schools that Thank you for your publications. I
receive Tree Talk to practice am very glad that even my
afforestation, reforestation and grandmother has a woodlot, where
agroforestry so that we can chase we frequently get firewood, shade
away environmental degradation in P6 students at Kyangyenyi PS in
Bushenyi celebrate the Environment and poles for building our kitchen.
our country and the world at large. Please send Myco PS some
Headteacher Rukundo Robert, Day by planting seedlings.
publications from Tree Talk and
Rwanga PS, Kihihi, Kanungu seeds for our nursery beds.
We planted many trees in our
compound and they are doing very Nueamanya Timothy, P4, Myco
The Karimojong culture and PS, Masindi Keep your school gardens alive! At
tradition on the preservation of well, for example, musizi,
eucalyptus and cassia. Lumansi Iryango PS in Mbarara/Isingiro, the newly
trees is excellent for today’s Tree posted headmistress and some staff
Talk programmes in schools and Erinesta, P6, Busowa PS, Bugiri
members plant avocado trees in the
beyond. I want to encourage every
Karimojong pupil to grow and care Our teachers have been teaching school compound during the holiday.
for at least one tree in a school pupils and the community how to
where they learn. Let’s co-exist plant trees. Our demonstration
with trees to notice the value they garden has been fenced to avoid
give us. Locheng, P6, animals attacking it. And we also
Nakapelimoe PS, Kotido received seeds like senna, neem,
lusambya and eucalyptus.
Okeya Gideon Hoyte P7, Tree Talkers at Bumanya PS in Kaliro
Chairman Farm Talk Club, Orago prune their trees. They write, "Locally
we have collected mango seeds and
PS, Tororo planted at least 250 seedlings of
mangoes. Through sensitization dur-
ing parents' meetings, the community
has taken up tree planting as their
home projects."
Win!
Tree Talk in 2008: protecting biodiversity
In 2008, Tree Talk will send its Tree Talk will also train 360
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