tall grass and young indigenous trees returning across former farmland in Mubende district
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Mubende District, Uganda

Rewilding Uganda

Forest and wetland returning to former farmland in Mubende District.

about 790 haArea
Rewilding and reforestationType
Matched with EntebbeCity patch
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Rewilding Uganda began with 650 acres of worn-out farmland and has planted around half a million trees, with a target of one and a half million. As the forest returned, so did the animals: pangolins, serval cats, jackals, banded mongoose, colobus monkeys, otters and more than a hundred grey crowned cranes. A second area, the 1,300-acre Shalom Sanctuary, joins forest to wetland as a corridor.

What is being created

The work
  • Native forest on former farmland
  • A forest-to-wetland wildlife corridor
  • Local jobs in planting and monitoring
Wildlife returning
  • Pangolin, serval, jackal, banded mongoose
  • Colobus monkey and otter
  • Over a hundred grey crowned cranes
Species
Grey crowned cranePangolinColobus monkeyServal
Hands holding a pine seedling with its root ball, green hills behind

At a glance

Location
Mubende District, UgandaEast Africa · Uganda
Area
about 790 ha
Type
Rewilding and reforestation
Ecosystem
Tropical forest and papyrus wetland
Community
Works with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, the National Forestry Authority and Restore Africa.
Run by
Rewilding Uganda
Verification
Partner reported

Links

Also working with Uganda Wildlife Authority, National Forestry Authority, Restore Africa.

Where it connects

Rewilding Uganda and Entebbe

Half of every gift to this pair is spent here, half in Entebbe, 133 km away.

tall grass and young indigenous trees returning across former farmland in Mubende district Rewilding Uganda
two women laughing while harvesting carrots in an Entebbe garden Entebbe Read the story
about 500 m²in the city
about 790 hain the wild
133 kmbetween them

Funding

Funding target£14,000

What the money does

  • Seedlings, tools and training for growers
  • Shade trees along the shore
  • Native seedlings and planting
  • Corridor protection and monitoring
  • Community rangers
£25one-off giftGrowing Impact

Plants, soil and the first year of care in the city and the wild.

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Urban · Entebbe£12.50
tall grass and young indigenous trees returning across former farmland in Mubende district
Wild · Rewilding Uganda£12.50
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Updates

  1. To date

    Around 500,000 trees planted on the first 650 acres

  2. Recently

    1,300-acre Shalom Sanctuary acquired as a corridor

  3. 2026 onward

    MaP funding joins planting and monitoring

Bare prepared ground with a handful of very small saplings just planted, a stone wall and rock face behind

No field reports yet. The first arrives after the first planting day.

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