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Wildlife protections tightened as southern Africa protests Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | A global wildlife summit has decided to regulate trade in giraffes and tighten protections for endangered animals including elephants, triggering a threat from disgruntled southern African nations to leave an international treaty. Parties to the Convention on International …

  Kampala, Uganda | AFP |  Uganda has scrapped plans to construct a hydro power station near Murchison Falls, an official said Wednesday, a project tourism operators had warned would irreversibly scar one of East Africa’s natural wonders. Cabinet agreed the proposed 360-megawatt project on the Victoria Nile in Murchison …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The cheetah of Kidepo Valley National Park, Pian Upe Game Reserve and Matheniko-Bokora Wildlife Reserve is critically threatened, according to a new red list of critically endangered species released by the Ministry of Tourism. The same list also names the spotted Hyena of Queen …

✳Entebbe-Nairobi inaugural flight TODAY ✳Entebbe-Juba 10x weekly ✳Entebbe-Mombasa 3x weekly ✳Entebbe-Nairobi 2 daily ✳Entebbe-Mogadishu 4x weekly ✳ Entebbe-Kilimanjaro 3x weekly Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi will be chief guest at Uganda Airlines inaugural flight at 11.10am today. On the flight to Nairobi will be government …

Ol Pejeta, Kenya | AFP | Veterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said in Kenya on Friday. Science is the only hope for the northern white rhino …

  ✳Entebbe-Nairobi, inaugural flight 10am August 27 ✳Entebbe-Juba, 10x weekly from August 27 ✳Entebbe-Mombasa, 3x weekly from August 27 ✳Entebbe-Nairobi, 2 daily from August 28 ✳Entebbe-Mogadishu, 4x weekly from August 29 ✳ Entebbe-Kilimanjaro, 3x weekly from September 22 Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines is set to have an …

  Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The MV Kazinga is in Uganda, and ready to sail. This after weeks on the road from Mombasa, to Kampala then eventually to the Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda. Great Lakes Safaris chief Amos Wekesa and his team on Wednesday test …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A male white-eared kob technically known as Kobus kob leucotis has appeared for the first time in two decades in Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve in Karamoja. The white-eared Kob was sighted by the Ecological Monitoring and Research Unit of Uganda Wildlife Authority – UWA on …

Wildlife summit mulls trade rules to counter ‘unprecedented’ species declines Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Conservationists warned of “unprecedented” species declines Saturday as countries met in Geneva to tighten rules on trade in elephant ivory and products from other endangered animal and plants. Thousands of conservationists and policymakers from more …

Tororo, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Jopadhola in eastern Uganda are today marking the 20th anniversary of the crowning of Kwar Adhola Moses Stephen Owor with a grand celebration at Achielet in Tororo. Twenty years ago on on the 7th August 1999, Owor was installed as the cultural leader of the …