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A shot of a rare underwater spawning that only takes place around a full moon once a year has been named as the winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer Of The Year competition.

From thick forests to winding lakes, from bees to butterflies, from gorillas to giraffes, Uganda is a country of stunning biodiversity and wildlife attr...

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Uganda Wildlife Authority last week increased gorilla families for tracking, following the successful habituation of two families.

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Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is renowned for its biodiversity. The area is also home to the Batwa people, who are highly dependent on its forests for their livelihoods and cultural traditions. Efforts to protect these forests are challenged by conservation’s mixed record: Kahuzi-Biega’s expansion in the 1970s forced the displacement of thousands of local people, turning them int...

UWA GETS READY FOR TWO NEW GORILLA GROUPS Efforts over the past years are nearing conclusion, as two additional habituated gorilla groups are to be added for tourism purposes at Bwindi National Park over the next few weeks. This will bring the number of available gorilla tracking permits at Bwindi to a maximum of 48 a day, provided all groups are available for visits and one or another are not being rested on advice of the Uganda Wildlife Authority veterinary services. Each permit presently att...

(eTN) – In what was described as an internal debate of some vigor, the Association of Uganda Tour Operators has apparently accepted that the Uganda Wildlife Authority’s online sale of the prized gor (eTN) – In what was described as an internal debate of some vigor, the Association of Uganda Tour Operators has apparently accepted that the Uganda Wildlife Authority’s online sale of the prized gorilla permits can go ahead after all. Sections of the local tour operating fraternity had vehem...

Rethinking Funding Models for Ape Conservation ByHeather Richardson On Jan. 11 this year, something happened that primatologists had both feared and expected: two western lowland gorillas at San Diego Zoo Safari Park tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Right from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts had assumed great apes would be susceptible to the virus. IUCN great ape specialists sent out a document in March 2020 to advise on the risk, and most great ape tourism sites closed immediately. ...