Uganda Atlas of Our Changing Environment - GRID-Arendal

Rhino camp 1975
78
Pader Refugee
camps
Impact of
the war and
concentration
camps;
vegetation loss
From the Landsat color composite of 1990, most of the land in Pader District was
under cultivation. However during the war all people moved into Internall Displaced
People’s camps as seen on the Landsat TM image of 1995. The areas that used to be
under agriculture regenerated into bush but there was more vegetation loss around