Assessing the impacts of stone quarrying on the environment in Osukuru sub county Tororo district.

Abstract

The general objective of the study was to find out. the impacts of stone quarrying to the environment in Osukuru sub county, Tororo District. The study unearthed the impacts that stone quarrying has on the physical, social, and economic spheres of the environment. The study relied on the information collected qualitatively through individual interviews coupled with personal observations in addition to documented data from published and unpublished sources. Findings reveal that the activity has led to a small scale ecological debt as the extraction of the stone resource is destroying people's ability survive and the trade of the resource is also ecologically unbalanced as these natural goods are exploited and traded without taking responsibility for the environmental damage to the community from which the resource is exploited.