The BBC’s The Carbon Offset Trap programme, broadcast on 2 April 2025, presents a one-sided and misleading picture of the Trees for Global Benefit (TGB) programme. The programme repeats false claims first published in a Swedish tabloid and already discredited by farmers, local leaders and independent reviews. Here’s our statement.
A series of articles published in May and June 2024 by the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, under the title “Hunger Forest”, misrepresented ECOTRUST’s work and distorted the lived experiences of farmers participating in the Trees for Global Benefit (TGB) programme in Uganda. Here’s our statement.
During a recent visit to the Murchison Landscape with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), we had the opportunity to explore the Ongo Community Forest, a vital conservation site spanning 192 hectares of communal land in Budongo Subcounty, Masindi District. Ongo Community Forest is one of the few community forests in Uganda with secure tenure, supporting the livelihoods of local community members and managed by the Ongo Communal Land Association (CLA). The forest also serves as a pilot site for the Darwin-funded Bio-credits project, aimed at enhancing biodiversity conservation.
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