Uganda report screams to the world: Africa’s elephants are as vulnerable as ever
By Hailey Gaunt The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) made a distressing announcement last week: 15 tonnes of ivory have been seized within and outside its borders in the past five years. The revelation came during the meeting of a national wildlife crime coordination task force in Jinja, Uganda and was originally reported by Uganda’s Daily […]
UGANDA’S LION POPULATION DROPS 33 PER CENT IN TEN YEARS
Weak laws, poaching and wildlife trafficking have resulted in lion populations plummeting by 33 per cent in the last ten years in Uganda’s game reserves. A census in the Queen Elizabeth, Murchison Falls and Kidepo national parks published by The Observer in Uganda, reported that in the three reserves, the number of lions has fallen […]
