Senegalese-American singer, Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam alias Akon together with his wife, Rozina Negusei over the weekend marveled at the beauty that Uganda is when they visited its touristy southwestern region; visiting one of the country’s most remarkable national game parks – Queen Elizabeth, and Bwindi Impenetrable National Parks. Akon, who is on a tour...Read More
Towards the end of last month, June, the Minister for Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, Honorable Col Tom Butime together with the UWEC executive director, Mr Musinguzi James, unveiled the Zakayo Monument/Statue. Zakayo, which was the oldest chimpanzee at the UWEC – Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre, died in 2018 at the age of 58 years....Read More
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) published the saddening news of the death of a rare silverback gorilla known as Rafiki. Rafiki was one of Uganda’s best known and most beloved gorillas. The 25-year-old gorilla was part of the popular Nkuringo gorilla family that lives in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, in southwestern Uganda. Gladly, however, four...Read More
The Uganda Wildlife governing body, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), has temporarily stopped tourist boat trips in the country’s largest and oldest protected area, Murchison Falls National Park, following the bursting of River Nile’s banks. In a press statement issued on Monday morning (8th/June/2020), UWA claimed that the rising water level has inundated the landing points...Read More
In April 2020, all the ten Uganda national parks and other protected areas were closed following the outbreak of the global pandemic disease, Covid-19 (Corona virus) that had took the entire world by storm. Meanwhile, the disease is gradually waning out and some businesses in Uganda were allowed to operate again after a temporary closure...Read More
Needless to say, Uganda is the best and most ideal destination for primate safaris. Kibale Forest National Park alone constitutes of 13 primate species, more than any other Park on the African continent. Uganda is the perfect destination for both chimpanzee and mountain gorilla excursions, residing the largest population of them. Especially mountain gorillas which...Read More
The Uganda tourism industry last year, 2019, in October received a full gorilla family called Hirwa gorilla family that migrated from Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, in southwestern Uganda. It is to be noted that both Volcanoes and Mgahinga National Parks together with DR Congo’s Virunga National Park all lie in...Read More
