President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has assented to the Uganda Wildlife Bill 2017, effectively making the Uganda Wildlife Act law. The main objective of the Act is to provide for the conservation and sustainable management of wildlife and to streamline roles and responsibilities for institutions in wildlife conservation and management in Uganda. The Uganda Wildlife Authority Act 2019, also stipulates clearly community participation in Wildlife conservation by strengthening theirs….
Uganda Wildlife Authority Rangers and Wardens were recently in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, benefiting from a series of intensive training courses delivered by 35 soldiers from the British military – 4 Rifles Regiment. The Session has now reached every protected area in Uganda. The Recovery of Murchison Falls program is run and sponsored by the Uganda Conservation Foundation in partnership with Uganda Wild life Authority this training covers Junior…
Uganda has increased the QUANTITY of mountain gorilla permits available each day in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, whilst the PRICE stays the same! Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has been inundated with permit requests as a result of significantly increased tourism to Uganda during 2018, so the completion of the habituation of the Katwe group (in Buhoma) and the Christmas group (in Nkuringo) couldn’t have come at a better time. Tourists are…
UWA together with Giraffe Conservation Foundation is translocating about 15 giraffes captured in Murchison Falls and released at Kidepo Valley National Park. This will be the second giraffe translocation to this park to boost the giraffe numbers and offer species diversity. Wildlife translocation is one of the mechanisms that UWA uses to conserve wildlife. The approach is vital in enhancing ecosystems with sparse populations, and depopulating areas of high densities…
Congratulations for Uganda gets another New born Male rhino which brings the number to 23 at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning 19th November 2018, first time Mum Uhuru gave birth to a male Rhino and they are both doing well. Rhino Fund Uganda’s missions is to apply sound conservation principles whereby a safe environment is created in which rhinos can be conserved for future generations….
Dr. Jane Goodall, a British primatologist and anthropologist, considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, took off time from her schedule last week, and visited Uganda Wildlife Education Conservation Centre (Entebbe zoo), to appreciate the rate at which the zoo has grown into a wildlife sanctuary for the orphanaged wildlife. She also named Zakayo II, who is going to be a successor and heir to the Kazayo throne….
Sad news for East Africa as the world’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, died after “age-related complications,” at age 45 at Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Sudan had been part of an ambitious effort to save the subspecies of Northern White Rhinos from extinction and he leaves behind the last two surviving females of northern white rhinos in the world. Northern white rhinos once roamed parts of Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Congo…
On 16th March 2018, Uganda Wildlife Education Center (UWEC) welcomed a 3-year-old female cheetah through the conservation animal exchange program with Mystic and Feathers facility, South Africa. The female cheetah is an action to avert possible inbreeding between Pian and Upe, (3.5 years) individuals, that were rescued from Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve, Karamoja Sub region). If UWEC can successfully breed them in captivity, this will be a unique opportunity to…
Uganda Honored as 5th Best Exhibitor at ITB Berlin 2018 in the Africa Category. ITB is the world’s largest travel expo attracting at least 10.000 businesses and over 160.000 visitors
On 12th March 2018, a group from International Gorilla Conservation Program entered Bwindi Impenetrable forest to start the census of the Mountain Gorillas in the forest. This follows a gorilla baby boom witnessed in Uganda in 2017. With just an estimated 880 Gorillas left in the wild in recent research findings. It seems that there is hope for these gentle giants surviving after all.