The Ugandan government has dropped plans to give away one third of the protected Mabira Forest Reserve, wanted by sugar cane companies including the Mehta Group, for large-scale production of ethanol.
The plan to “de-gazette” and fell 17.500 acres of Mabira would have breached a World Bank deal safeguarding the reserve and may have flouted the countrys constitution.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org