50 per cent of Fort Portal wetlands drown in destruction – study

About 50.9 percent of Fort Portal City’s total wetland area has been degraded due to human activities, a new study has revealed.

According to the study by Aid Environment, commissioned by Join for Water in collaboration with Fort Portal City, wetland cover reduced from 537.4 hectares to 273.7 hectares.

This degradation is paralleled by an expansion of subsistence farming, which has increased from 933.7 hectares to 1,584.3 hectares, and human settlement, rising from 14.2 hectares to 68.77 hectares.

Fort Portal City, spanning 124 square kilometres,…