ugandawildlife.org Book Your Visit : Uganda Wildlife Authority

Organization : Uganda Wildlife Authority
Type of Facility : Book Your Visit
Country: Uganda

Website : https://www.ugandawildlife.org/

Uganda Wildlife Authority :

Uganda, the “Pearl of Africa”, has ten national parks displaying the best of East Africa. Their Rift Valley landscapes and tropical forests make dramatic backdrops to an extensive variety of flora and fauna.

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Managed by Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), the parks offer ‘traditional’ savanna safaris along with boat tours, forest hikes, mountain climbing and wildlife research activities. Uganda is unrivalled on the continent as a bird watching destination with over 1,000 species of birds – several of which are found nowhere else on the planet. It is also home to 13 types of primates including over half of the world’s endangered mountain gorillas; and our closest relative – the chimpanzee.

Book Your Visit:
Arrange park entry, gorilla trekking and other tours directly with the Uganda Wildlife Authority.

See the UWA Tariff Guide

Reserve through the Uganda Wildlife Authority:
Tel: +256 414 355000, +256 312 355000
Fax: 256 414 346291
Email: info AT ugandawildlife.org

Book a package with one of Uganda’s local tour operators

Search accommodation options in and around the national parks though our Visitors Guide in the main menu.

Reservations and Booking Enquiries:
If you would like to make some reservations or book permits to our park

Submit Here : https://www.ugandawildlife.org/

Conservation Management :
** Uganda Wildlife Authority is in charge of conserving the country’s natural heritage, which includes animals, plants, natural features and ecosystems in general.

** UWA implements diverse strategies to conserve and sustainably manage wildlife. They include community participation in wildlife management; revenue sharing; collaborative management; problem animal management; wildlife use rights; and conservation education and awareness.

** UWA addresses conservation challenges such as poaching, encroachment and illegal grazing through strategies such as placing patrols in all protected areas and arresting people who invade park land without permission from the Authority.

** UWA has also worked with communities around protected areas to address other challenges between wildlife and humans around these areas such as problem animals and human-wildlife conflicts among others. Wildlife benefit sharing programs are intended to contribute towards achieving the government’s aim of poverty eradication and improved community livelihoods.

Conservation Challenges :
** Human encroachment on wildlife habitats is one of the biggest challenges to UWA and conservation in general. The main cause of this are changes in land use and the increasing search for farmland which lead to a decrease in the wildlife range.

** UWA has a team of skilled staff to respond to reports about crop raiding and threats to livestock and to communities. These are dealt with using methods such as scare shooting to chase the problem animals back into the protected area; capturing and translocation; and sensitizing the communities.

** As a last resort, individual animals that fail to return to the protected area may be sport hunted or killed in order to reduce the threat. Those killed under sport hunting generate revenue for the communities through the hunting fees, which in turn discourages poaching and contributes to conservation.