Career
Amooti worked as a journalist for the Kampala newspaper The New Vision from 1986. He lived in a village in the Ibanda District. He reported on various environmental issues, such as endangered mountain gorillas, the forests of Bwindi, on illegal mining and poaching.
He also called attention on the business of smuggling of rare animals for the purpose of exposition or laboratory experiments, in particular endangered chimpanzees and parrots.
In 1993 he was awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1996.
He later focused on forest protection and on the environment of Lake Victoria. He published the children"s book ! in 1998, and has also published the books, and
The books are about environmental issues, written for children from nine to twelve years old, and the story"s principal character is the young man "Kazoora".
Amooti died from leukemia in 1999, 43 years old. In accordance with his wishes, he was buried without a coffin. His body was wrapped in a palm-leaf mathematics
He is regarded as a pioneer in the awareness of environmental issues in Uganda.
At the World Wetlands Day in 2008, Amooti was honored with a memorial lecture.
