In the 1980s, Thailand’s government, initially supported by the World Bank, focused on a single ecosystem service—aquaculture—to supply a growing frozen shrimp export industry.
Greater meat consumption and demand for fossil fuels worldwide are expected to cause increasingly more harmful algal blooms and dead zones in coastal and freshwater areas.
Uganda’s leaders now have access to maps that will allow them—for the first time ever—to reduce poverty through better management of the country’s wetlands.
Of the 514 subcounties with papyrus wetlands, 210 could
harvest and sell enough raw papyrus to theoretically close
the poverty gap within their administrative unit.
The Uganda National Wetlands Policy commits the Government to “the conservation of wetlands in order to sustain their ecological and socio-economic functions for the present and future well-being of
The Uganda National Wetlands Policy commits the Government to “the conservation of wetlands in order to sustain their ecological and socio-economic functions for the present and future well-being of
The Sezibwa wetland system is one of the four proposed sites to monitor long-term ecological and socioeconomic trends in Uganda’s wetlands. Map A shows the location and extent of this system.
The number of different products that could be potentially
obtained from a wetland is closely related to the type
of vegetation cover and level of wetness.
The number of different products that could be potentially
obtained from a wetland is closely related to the type
of vegetation cover and level of wetness.
This map displays wetland area per capita by subcounty,
represented by the height of the red bar. Wetland area per
person varies broadly among the 938 subcounties with
data.
