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04 March 2012
Uganda Wildlife Authority acting executive director Dr. Andrew Seguya displays some the 162 kilograms of ivory and other animal products impounded while being smuggled, in the capital Kampala. Officials in Uganda say seized nearly 360 pounds (162 kilograms) of ivory and other animal parts and products that were being smuggled in and out of the [...]
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14 October 2011
By MIKI MEEK, New York Times ~ Nick Brandt’s stark and soulful portraits are an intimate glimpse at a world under siege. A mournful ranger holds poached ivory tusks, an abandoned ostrich eggs sits on a stretch of parched earth and a small herd of elephants surrounds a skull. Mr. Brandt has been photographing the [...]
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20 September 2011
By Max Delany, SOUTH AFRICA ~ Buvunya – Standing beneath the towering trees of Uganda’s threatened Mabira rainforest, farmer Godfrey Ojambo shrugs in despair and bewilderment at plans to cut down this national treasure and hand it over to a sugar corporation. From feed for his cows and firewood for his cooking to the rainfall [...]
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08 September 2011
KAMPALA,(IRIN) – A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living. Politicians and activists have warned they will fight the revived plan to uproot just [...]
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27 August 2011
AFP ~ Two men suspected of running a baby gorilla trafficking ring have been arrested in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, conservation activists said Friday. The two were arrested in Goma, the capital of DR Congo’s Kivu Nord province, and “charged with illegal trafficking of an endangered species”, the Congolese ICCN conservation group said in [...]
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23 August 2011
MGVP ~ A highly-endangered mountain gorilla infant rescued from poachers earlier this month is recovering well according to officials with the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project. “She was clearly sick and traumatized when we found her,” Jan Ramer, MGVP veterinary manager, told AFP Monday. “But now she seems healthy. She is comfortable with her care givers [...]
12 August 2011
Analysis by Jennifer Viegas | Discovery News | On Sunday night, a young mountain gorilla was found in an African jail, curled up on a bed alongside poachers who had attempted to smuggle her from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Rwanda, according to the World Wildlife Fund. “When we walked into the jail, one [...]
12 August 2011
An infant mountain gorilla has been rescued from poachers in Rwanda with the help of the International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP), a partnership of WWF, African Wildlife Foundation and Fauna & Flora International. A group of Rwandan and Congolese men were attempting to smuggle the female, less than one-year old, into Rwanda from the Democratic [...]
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03 August 2011
By Elias Biryabarema | KAMPALA (Reuters) ~ Ugandan and French scientists have discovered a fossil of a skull of a tree-climbing ape from about 20 million years ago in Uganda’s Karamoja region, the team said Tuesday. The scientists discovered the remains on July 18 while looking for fossils in the remnants of an extinct volcano in Karamoja, a semi-arid region in Uganda’s northeastern corner. “This [...]
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01 August 2011
NPR, US ~ In the early 1970s, a chimpanzee named Nim was plucked from his mother’s arms and transported into human homes in the hopes that he would learn sign language and open a window into ape thoughts. FILM: Project Nim, Director: James Marsh, Genre: Documentary. Running Time: 93 minutes Rated PG-13 for some strong [...]
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28 July 2011
By Sinziana Demian, DFGFI Report ~ When the helicopter touched down at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE) center on Sunday afternoon, for the sixth time in two days, a long journey home finally came to an end. Pinga, Serufuli, Tumaini, Ntabwoba, Itebero and Dunia, the six orphaned Grauer’s gorillas who had been cared for [...]
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27 July 2011
By: ERIN SKARDA, TIME ~ Six endangered Grauer’s gorillas were returned home to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday after being rescued from poachers who smuggled them into neighboring Rwanda. The gorillas, who range in age from 5 to 8 years old, were victims of what’s become a widespread issue in Africa: animal trafficking. According [...]
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13 July 2011
The Queen of Buganda, Nabagereka Sylvia Naginda has urged central and local governments to scale up investments in tourism by uplifting our heritage sites and wildlife conservation centers to foster rapid socio-economic development. Lady Silvia Naginda received a Picture of her Totem “Musu” (Cane rat) (Above Photo) The Nabagereka who is also the patron for [...]
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06 July 2011
AFP, Kampala – A rhinoceros in Uganda’s only rhino sanctuary has given birth to the first female calf born in the country in three decades, the director of the conservancy said on Wednesday. The calf was born on Saturday weighing about 50kg at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, which aims to reintroduce rhinoceros in Uganda, where [...]
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20 June 2011
On June 17th, 2011, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) staff in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park discovered the mountain gorilla named Mizano in the Habinyanja family group dead. Initial reports are that the gorilla was speared by the poachers who were in the forest targeting small antelopes. A necropsy has since been performed and the specific circumstances [...]
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18 May 2011
By John Platt | Red colobus monkeys in Uganda’s Kibale National Park are being hunted to extinction—by chimpanzees. According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology, this is the first documented case of a nonhuman primate significantly overhunting another primate species. (The taxonomy of Ugandan red colobus monkeys is in [...]
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25 April 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | UNAA Times Online | I visited the Franklin Zoo in the downtown Boston, USA and from start to finish there was something to see that kept your excitement levels high. Although Africa is several hundred miles away they had the airlifted African animals like the African Lion, Zebras, Wat hogs, and [...]
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24 April 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Uganda Dispatch | Opened as a sanctuary for orphaned, confiscated, injured and sick animals way back in 1952 by the colonial government the Entebbe Zoo or the Uganda Wildlife Educational Center[UWEC] as its commonly referred to today looks more like a shadow of its former self. I recently embarked on a [...]
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01 February 2011
Virunga National Park Dispatch | We have suffered a second major attack by FDLR militias in less than a week. Ranger Muhindo Mburungani was killed instantly with two bullets through the chest as their unit was ambushed on the Kabasha escarpment to the west of the park. He was part of the civilian protection unit [...]
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26 January 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda | A Uganda Wildlife Authority official says more than 270 African gray parrots have been seized from smugglers in the past month, which suggests there is a syndicate illegally exporting Ugandan wildlife. Johnson Masereka said Tuesday that authorities seized 140 parrots in a weekend raid on a wildlife export firm’s warehouse near Entebbe, [...]
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