Chased By An Elephant

A travel to Africa is not complete without a safari tour. We had no big expectations, having seen it all on National Geographic Channel already. The truth was: it really was exciting and raised our adrenaline levels.

Our first zebra
At first, it started rather disappointing. After a couple of hours driving [...]

Tour firms back IGG on gorilla probe

TOUR operators have welcomed the Inspector General of Government’s (IGG) probe into the monopoly rights given to a private firm to sell gorilla tracking permits in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
The deal, which attracted a lot of opposition from tour firms, was given to the Nkuringo conservation and Development Foundation. Boniface Byamukama, the new president [...]

IGG cancels gorilla park contracts Sunday, 23rd May, 2010

IGG cancels gorilla park contracts Sunday, 23rd May, 2010
THE Inspector General of Government Raphael Baku has directed the Uganda Wildlife Authority to cancel all the illegal and irregular contracts it made with the Nkuringo Conservation and Development Foundation and Uganda Safari Company in Kisoro district.
The contracts were monopolizing Gorilla Tracking in Nkuringo on the [...]

Forest conservation is a first priority to maintain the tourism industry in Uganda

Forest conservation is a first priority to maintain the tourism industry in Uganda.
The Ugandans have sacrificed a lot for the conservation of forests in order to support the development of the tourism industry. This is evidenced when the Uganda local’s community refused Mabira forest to be used for industrialization due to its rich bio- diversity [...]

Tourism: A key sector in Rwanda

Rosette Rugambwa is the Executive Director for the Rwanda Office for Tourism and National Parks (ORTPN). The Monitor’s Raymond Kalema and Muhereza Kyamutetera, talked to her about the performance of the industry. Below are the excerpts.
Rwanda participated in the recent ITB Berlin  Exhibition where she became the fourth, beating other traditional African rivals like Kenya. [...]

Gorilla campaign To Promote Uganda’s Tourism

The gorilla sanctuary,Uganda’s expanding ‘gold mine‘

The gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are the single most drawing feature for foreign tourists to Uganda.
Dwelling in the dense moist tropical forest found in south western Uganda, the mountain gorilla strikes you as a ferocious animal at first sight. With black eyes, thick black shiny fur and as tall as six feet weighing [...]

UWA invests more in the gorilla tourist industry

By April this year, a new site for gorilla trekking will open in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park; bringing the total number of sites to four.

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) is opening up another tourist destination in the park to ensure that more tourists have a chance to find their way to view some of the [...]

Uganda Wildlife Authority Leases out Pien-Upe wildlife reserve

Uganda is seeing a great increase in the number of tourists coming into the country and it is reaping huge from this service industry. In an effort to improve the local tourism industry and bring it to International Standards, UWA, has embarked on awarding management of some of the local reserves to [...]

Using bees to protect mountain gorillas

The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) in an effort to help in protecting the critically endangered mountain gorillas found in the forest regions of Bwindi and Mgahinga gorilla national parks have now launched a bee-rearing project to help the local communities in the environs of these national parks find alternatives of making money as well [...]

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