Musiime explained that indeed environment, conservation and ecosystem maintenance are a very big challenge in the mining sector saying that gold for instance is found in protected areas national parks, forests like in Buhweju areas, done in wetlands in central region while in the eastern region, it is near Lake Victoria. He said that forests and crops cannot survive in gold mining because it involves digging the ground but worse still they use mercury in extraction and processing stages.
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