Hello, I appreciate your concern on environmental conservation. Arua District has got qualified environmentalists and I am quite certain that, an environmental impact assessment for this project was done.( I beg to be corrected) This Barifa issue has been on going for quite some time now. Both NFA and NEMA are stakeholders, and ought to be knowing what is happening. I think it is only fair to have some basic details about such subjects before drawing conclusions or attacking people. You may probably be right; but do you have any evidence to prove that an alternative has never been sought to relocate barifa or conserve our environment? The Daily Monitor story as I read, made no mention on complaints regarding environmental concerns and improper procedure. But complaints from some people(residents) who felt left out in the process of degazetting. Better still, you want to conserve environment for a good cause.(helping mankind). Our people destroy forests mainly for wood fuel. What alternative source of fuel/energy have you provided for the many poor people in villages? What should our people who traditionally know wood fuel as the only source of energy say for cooking and curing tobacco use for the meantime as fuel with view of preserving the environment. Am not against any thing but; please, provide alternatives as is the case in other countries. The law then can take its course. What people need are not good suggestions that are beyond their reach but realistic alternatives. I hope I've not generated another debate. Cheers Xavier
--- On Mon, 4/5/09, ranguzu <rang...@naro.go.ug> wrote: From: ranguzu <rang...@naro.go.ug> Subject: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 9, Issue 6 To: westnilenet@kym.net Date: Monday, 4 May, 2009, 12:32 PM Dear all I am extremely perturbed by the Monitor story on the degazetting of barifa forest reserve for construction. I just wonder whether or not there are enviromentalists among the Municipal Council Officials in Arua District. Development is not only about construction of buildings. It also takes into account enviornmental concerns. The district and municipal leadership are well aware that Arua district is slowly turning into a desert, thanks to the reckless behaviour of the population in destroying trees, and lack of guidance and enforncement of the law by the authorities. Arua district is one of drought prone areas, which needs protection - in terms of natural resource management and conservation. I think the President was right to stop the degazetting the forest. Regards Robert Anguzu On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:00:04 +0300 (EAT), westnilenet-request wrote > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > westnilenet@kym.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > westnilenet-requ...@kym.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > westnilenet-ow...@kym.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Barifa Forest Reserve in the News & A New Website for West > Nile Discussion Forum (ayiko...@yahoo.co.uk) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 21:13:18 +0000 (GMT) > From: ayiko...@yahoo.co.uk > Subject: [WestNileNet] Barifa Forest Reserve in the News & A New > Website for West Nile Discussion Forum > To: westnilenet@kym.net > Message-ID: <596526.1486...@web27206.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Everyone, > > Here is an interesting development on Barifa Forest Reserve (see the > link below), bin it if you have already seen it. > http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/regional- special/President_saves_Arua_s_Barifa_Forest_Reserve_84034.shtml > > > Has any one come up with a definitive solution to the way > discussions are structured on this forum? The last time I checked > (30 April 2009), Mr Vasco Oguzu was trying to resolve an apparent > misunderstanding that arose from some members' discontent with the > kind of information received in their mail box. Subsequently, I > would like to support the view that we have our own website (I can > not recall who suggested this recently, but credit to you > nonetheless). It is indeed possible to get a website with a domain > name for which we can pay, it is cheap and quite affordable. > Alternatively, we can use one of the free web forums (such as > this one: http://justcycling.myfastforum.org/forum1.php , for which > the main page is: http://www.myfreeforum.org) Once we have the > website, we can structure our discussions broadly on themes such as > Education, Health/healthcare, > entrepreneurship/trade/business/commerce, community develoment, > environment, politics etc, including a section on 'socials or fun' > and 'others'. The category on 'others' is an important one, even in > scientific research, where ideas that may be interesting (for the > researcher) but cannot be accommodated under the existing > theoretical/conceptual framework are deposited, but may be explored > further in the future (if necessary). Those interested in > contributing ideas can post them directly under the relevant themes. > The main moderator (I think Kiggs as it stands now, but I suggest we > nominate a few other knowledgeable members to help him), will have > the authority to remove inapproapriate posts (and transfer to the > relevant sections). Moderator(s) can also move to the front/top page, > any topics that are very important and deserve more attention from > us. They may also post obituaries or breaking news (if necessary). > With comments or rejoinders, we can adopt the Daiy Monitor or Andrew > Mwenda's independent Magazine style where there is a section for > comments (with a few basic rules) after each original contribution. > This way, the apparent frustration with email clogging will be > handled and there will be space for all to be accommodated. We can > also act as 'police' to see to it that commentaries and rejoinders > appear in the appropriate sections, by informing the moderator(s) if > items appear to be 'misplaced'. We can then create a link to the > archives of all that has been discussed on the forum to this date. > This way, there will be no need to send emails around, unless if one > is trying to share personal or private information with friends. All > we need will be to log in to the website. I know someone (Ejiku > Robert I think?) has already (jokingly??) dismissed the idea of > logging into a (West Nile forum) website, but I am sure if one > realistically wants to contribute to the cause of this forum, that > should not be asking for too much. Should we agree on the idea of > a fully fledged website, I will be happy to pay for the domain name > in the first two years, and I am sure if it works to our advantage, > and in the interest of keeping this very important forum open, we > can together, work out how to maintain it into the foreseable > future. In the meantime, If some durable solution has been found > to this problem, please ignore my suggestions. 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