The oil will affect 20.000 squared kilometres of wildlife reserved: oil will be mainly drilled at the Tilenga site inside the Murchison Falls National Park, where the last populations of Rothschild giraffes live and be transported to Kabaale, where the start of the EACOP pipeline will cross in between the tropical forests of Bugoma and Wambabya, cutting corridors of endangered chimpanzee species. At the end of its route, the pipeline will end at the borders of Tanga Coelacanth Marine Park, where mangrove forests will be decimated for the construction of the new terminal and the African coral reef will be affected.
EACOP has been strongly confronted by local activists and environmental organizations have express serious concerns as it endangers the fight against climate change and breaches the international Paris Agreements with an estimated production of 34 million tons of CO2, twice as much as Uganda and Tanzania's emissions as of 2021 combined.
The story portrays the ecosystems that are in danger in Uganda and Tanzania, as well as the local communities directly impacted in a world where global warming is a reality while the planet's energy needs continue to increase.
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