The Beitbridge Rural District Council is working on measures to curb rampant poaching of wildlife and natural resources in the district, an official has said.
AT least 18 goats in Koch-Goma sub-county in Amuru district have been killed by stray elephants from Murchison Falls National Park since the beginning of the year, the LC3 chairman, John Bosco Okullo, said on Thursday.
A five-day training on biodiversity conservation and management for forestry officers, last Thursday, November 19th commenced at the Darwin Field Station, located right in the heart of the Abuko Nature Reserve.
Kenya is opposing a move by Tanzania to reintroduce the sale of ivory, saying it will increase elephant poaching in the region.
The Okavango Delta, which has been described as the world's largest inland delta, is the lifeline of the people living on its banks.
A third of the world's amphibians, a fifth of all mammals and 70 per cent of all plants are under threat, according to the latest Red List published just two months before the world marks the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority plane that crash-landed about 100 metres after take-off in Adjumani district
It was all excitement in Mangola Village, Karatu District when local residents discovered the rare Pangolin an animal believed to be able to predict the future, or something.
An expert on Friday warned that the banning of hunting in preference to photographic safaris could have a devastating effect on the environment and the wildlife it is expected to preserve.
The boundaries of Akagera National Park are set to be re-demarcated following a cabinet approval giving a go ahead for the exercise and fencing the park in the Eastern Province.
LEADERS from Kapchorwa district have appealed to the parliamentary social services committee to liaise with the Government to quickly settle the land dispute between the Benet and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).
"We have been reduced to begging from relatives and to migrate to urban areas where life is not safe. We were living in the mountain for more than 200 years. Transferring us means burying us, completely. We want to stay in our area and develop."
The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS).
FOUR cheetah cubs that were rescued in July this year - Polly, Tony, Mischief and Phil have made great progress through rehabilitation efforts and are now in great health.
The provision of 12 boreholes and artificial watering pans for the wildlife at a national park in the vast Makgadikgadi Pans is expected to improve the quality of wildlife and tourism activities in the area.
