At rural-urban interface areas the extent of vegetation cover changes has been increasingrnowing to lack of proper management, awareness of the local community and urbanrnexpansion. This study was conducted to analyze the governance, perception and extents ofrnrural-urban interface vegetation cover changes in and around Burayu Town. This studyrnemployed both quantitative and qualitative (mixed research) type of research approach.rnDescriptive research which is cross-sectional survey type of research design was employedrnto survey 268 households. Information regarding to the governance of vegetation cover wererncollected and analysed qualitatively. Data regarding the spatial analysis of vegetation coverrnchange was analysed using remote sensing satellite images of 2000-2020 period. This studyrnfinding reveals most of the vegetative landscapes including urban parks and green areasrnlocated at periphery and at interface areas of the town were mismanaged due to lack ofrnstrong governance and little integration between community and town administrative. Thisrnstudy also indicated that the issues of urbanization, formal and informal settlements, land usernplan and horizontal expansion of the town are perceived as a problem and agreed by thernmajority of the people. The change in vegetation covers was perceived as a result of therneffects of urbanization and settlement expansion. Particularly urbanization is seen as leadingrnproblem with mean value of 3.95 which further give rise to horizontal expansion andrnunintended settlements. The 2000-2020 period trends of spatial analysis revealed that overrnthe last 20 years, as a result of anthropogenic effects the predominant vegetation covers inrnand around the town converted to other non-vegetation purposes which is mainly the urbanrnsettlements. About 43.37% of the vegetation cover was changed to other land use cover typesrnduring the study period from 5166.27 ha in 2000 to 2925.81in 2020. Hence, urban-ruralrninterface vegetation covers change problems in the study area needs more attention tornsynergies and integrate management responses among all the stakeholders.