Author: Muhumuza Vensor

Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has met tour guides at Skyz Hotel in Kampala to discuss tourism operations, conservation management and ways the two sides can work more closely together. The meeting, which brought together guides from different parts of the country, gave both parties a chance to raise concerns and get clarity on a number of changes affecting the tourism sector. UWA Executive Director Dr. James Musinguzi told the guides that gorilla permit prices will be reduced during the low season months of April, May and November, dropping from $800 to $600. He said an official document with more details…

Uganda Wildlife Authority has launched a dedicated rhino sanctuary inside Kidepo Valley National Park, marking the first concrete step towards reintroducing rhinoceros to the park where the species was hunted to extinction more than four decades ago. Construction of a 17,050-acre fenced sanctuary in the Narus Valley is already underway, with plans to settle an initial population of southern white rhinos before eventually introducing eastern black rhinos. A total of 40 animals are expected to occupy the sanctuary once the project reaches full capacity. The launch was supported by the European Union through its NaturAfrica Kidepo-Turkana Landscape Project, which has…

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute, has officially unveiled the results of the 2025 Chimpanzee Census in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, confirming a thriving population of 426 chimpanzees in the protected area. The landmark census the first of its kind in Bwindi was conducted in two comprehensive sweeps between May and September 2025. The findings provide the most up-to-date and scientifically grounded estimate of the chimpanzee population in the park, marking a significant milestone in Uganda’s conservation journey. Speaking at the unveiling, UWA Executive Director Dr. James Musinguzi emphasized the strategic value of the…

A suspected ivory trafficker is in custody after security agencies seized 154 kilograms of raw elephant ivory in Nwoya District, in one of the latest enforcement actions targeting wildlife crime in northern Uganda. Opiro Francis was picked up on February 22 while found in possession of ten pieces of raw elephant tusks. He will be charged with unlawful possession of protected wildlife specimens under the Uganda Wildlife Act Cap 315 and produced before the Standards, Utilities and Wildlife Court for prosecution. The operation was carried out jointly by the Special Wildlife Crime Unit and the Uganda Police Force, and was…

Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) will on March 1 host the 8th Uganda Wildlife Half Marathon at Kitante Primary School Grounds in Kampala, bringing together runners, schools, and corporate sponsors to raise money for the children of wildlife rangers who died protecting the country’s natural heritage. This year’s race runs under the theme “Running to Educate Children of the Fallen Rangers,” and proceeds will go into the Fallen Rangers Education Fund, which is currently supporting close to 150 children through school, from primary level all the way to university. The marathon doubles as a curtain-raiser for World Wildlife Day, marked every…

By AKAMPA RUGABA Tanbull Well, this whole week, both social media and mainstream media have been awash with excitement and misinformation on the the exergurated importance of the Geneva Summit 2026 where the former Presidential flagbearer of National Unity Platform(NUP), Mr Kyaguranyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine made a appearance full of rhetorics calling upon European Union Countries and international community to sanction the National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaders especially the President Elect, H:E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa and his family members. Categorically, I have to state that this was a wastage of time! Why? The composition of Geneva Summit is merely…

Six weeks after Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers loaded four Southern White Rhinos into steel transport crates and drove them 221 kilometres north from Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola to Ajai Wildlife Reserve in Madi-Okollo District, the animals are feeding well, moving freely across their new terrain, and being tracked around the clock by dedicated ranger teams who have not left their side since the day they arrived. It is the most significant moment in Ugandan conservation history since the country’s last wild rhino was killed in Kidepo Valley National Park in 1983, leaving Uganda without a single rhinoceros for the…