How Sustainable Plantations Help Save Uganda’s Decimated Forests | Short Film Showcase
[Music] [Music] [Music] People have cut down trees because they need fuel. People have cut down trees because they need to construct homes. It is important that people do have access to forest and timber resources, but this needs to be on a sustainable basis. As we go towards the development of our country, we need power. We need fuel for our training processing facilities. We need power for different activities. Most industries, we need to perform or centralist. Our restaurants, most of the things we are buying recently, they need to be charging. You need three days; you need fuel for energy needs. Everything is running on power.
So far, it is basically in unity now. Our day-to-day lives, we have the land and we have the climate where trees can grow. There are for growing our own resources. Input substitution is just a clear case. Importing means we are spending precious dollars to bring in a resource that we can readily produce at home. Action is needed now. Action was needed actually yesterday in terms of getting people to invest in plantations, getting people to plant a tree, plant fruit trees, put up a small woodlot, and getting the national consciousness raised on the importance of maintaining the watersheds or maintaining the biodiversity of our remaining few natural forests.
[Music] The whole process begins with the mother garden. I'm going to your big mother garden about 20,000 drumettes, and that's where we pick our cuttings. We raise about 500,000 siblings. They are using a rooting hormone to stimulate the looking alpha tree. It must and will be bad enough for planting out into the field. Plantations were very important to my upbringing, my family, my brothers, and sisters. It was the source of all school fees. So if you planted a belt of transitions around natural forests, you are in one way protecting the natural forest and directly contributing to tourism and to the wildlife there.
Even up to now, my parents have sold firewood small bit by bit, but today, every day we have sold timber. Remember, we don't have a big piece of land; our land is about five acres. That's where I grow food, where we stay, where we have everything. In my village, a tree, let's say eucalyptus of eight to thirteen years, ranges between 80,000 and 120,000 part three. If you can imagine, most of the school fees for average schools is about three hundred thousand to six hundred thousand. So that means every time five trees can pay fees for a child. This forest up will reduce the oxygen which is utilized by the... you might be for inspiration.
This is our... excuse me, I've been here for seven years as a school leader. We have managed to produce over 1,000 professionals. Sandra, you run very fast until the water comes and opens for us the generator room. Being a rural best school and fat-rich school, we don't have power here, and indeed, power has been one of the highest number one challenges of the screen.
So this is the generator that we are using now. That is a petrol-powered generator. Iranian a simpleton or aroma yoga in dabit tag it was so a union worker. Now foot, I knew right away Rocco a guru who knew footing rested enough when you observe it there and avatar. You are an Arab and a new forest company Chindi gotten angry on kono Gwangju boot umbrella Moochie Apple. We need above your aluminum hood when an emo guy JJJ physiology.
[Music] [Applause] [Music] Planting trees is not a choice that can be debated. The country needs its forests, so it is clear that forests are a necessity for the country. It is not a luxury that we can easily import once things go wrong. I believe in it; Niffle is not just a job. I'm a Ugandan, true, and not all of us have the luxury of getting on a plane and relocating somewhere else. So we both make things work here. We have to make the same one here.
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