The Bugoma Forest is a protected tropical forest that is situated southwest of Hoima and northeast of Kyenjojo towns, and east of Lake Albert, in the Hoima district of western Uganda. It was gazetted in the 1930s and came under the mandate of the National Forestry Authority (NFA) in 2003.[1] Its surface area is given as between 41,142 hectares (411.42 km2)and 65,000 hectares (650 km2).

23 species of mammal, 225 species of bird, and 260 species of tree are known to occur in the reserve. The forest is home to a considerable number of chimpanzees which have started to undergo the habituation process in January 2016.

National Environment Management Authority has signed a licence that allows for the forest to be cleared and replaced with a sugar factory. This goes against its mandate of environmental protection and will result in poaching of wildlife in the forest and the loss of endemic species of trees and animals.

If the forest is cleared, we shall not only lose our wildlife to poaching but will lose our natural endemic trees too;some of which are endangered species. The forest brings a lot of income in form of tourism and provides food, water and medicine to communities around.

Please save our forest