Rwensambya Central Forest Reserve

[7] in 2014, the NFA started a campaign of evicting all the people who illegally stayed in the government forest reserves around Uganda including Kyegegwa and Kyenjojo after Yoweri Kaguta Museveni issued a directive to evict those people.

But KTGA also rented the forest reserve land to people and they planted in maize and other crops.

[2] The staff of National Forestry Authority (NFA) slashed the crops which included coffee trees, maize plants and ovacado trees claiming them to be planted with in the demacations for the forest reserve.

[10] In 2021, the UNCHR partnered with NFA to replant trees and managed to restored 100 hectares of forest cover this reserve with the seedlings that were provided by the NFA.

[1] Some of the common threats to the forest reserve include human activities such as charcoal burning and production, illegal logging, cultivation/agriculture.