Kigezi sub-region grapples with climate change effects

When the then British Deputy Secretary of State for Colonies, Mr Winston Churchill, visited Uganda in 1907, he named Kigezi Sub-region the Switzerland of Africa because of its cold weather and interlocking hills that displayed a beautiful scenery.

However, the status has since changed because of human activities and population growth.

The Kabale District Natural Resources Officer, Mr Henry Tumwesigye, says in the last 10 years, his district has lost 60 percent of the wetlands to human activities that include urbanisation, and crop and dairy farming.