A Ecological Baseline Surveys Of: - Lake Bisina - Nature Uganda

2.5.3 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This area is still a high biodiversity area in the country with unique bird species especially in the
Karamoja region that is not often covered by most research organizations mainly due to the past
instability in the region. The presence of the large numbers of migrants and threatened species
puts this wetland system in urgent need for conservation action to protect the species and their
habitat.
Communities in these wetland systems need to be sensitized on how to sustainably use resources
in this area while conserving them. For example the Sironko rice growers seemed not to like the
idea of researchers going in the wetlands because they think they researchers could be planning to
chase them away from this wetland. They therefore need to be made aware that the wetland is for
them to use in a proper way through inter-district interventions.
Future research should concentrate on the gaps in the present research which are mainly the eastern
part of the Opeta-Bisina system in Karamoja region. If these areas are covered and their biodiversity
state assessed, this will give a firm basis for the conservation actions to be implemented in the
wetland systems including trans boundary management options.
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