A ostrich-riding, and bungee jumping adventure British man who has spent time doing charity work around the world and in Africa has been chosen as the care-taker of a tropical Island in Australia's Queensland State. Nearly 35,000 people from around the world applied for this job which has been dubbed the "best job" in the world by many. He is to earn 150,000 Australian dollars approximately $111,000 as salary and that is not all, he gets to live in a beautiful, well aerated-villa along one of these beautiful beaches. His job? Well, to swim, stroll the Islands' beautiful beaches and blog about it as a way of promoting this beautiful island.
Ben Southall's application video showed him riding an ostrich, on a safari in Africa trekking through its wilderness, running in a marathon and well, kissing a giraffe. All this depicted his love for adventure.
Ben Southall, 34, was selected for this envious job by the tourism department of Queensland state official. The shortlist of 15 finalists were taken to the Queensland Island to go through the last stage of their interview, which required them to...? Well you guessed it. All they had to do was munch on juicy barbecue, snorkel the clear waters of the Island, "unwind" at a spa and well go through a one-on-one interview.
The job starts in July and is part of a $1.7 campaign to promote the beauty of northern Queensland.
Wow!
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Tourism In Uganda And East Africa
TOUR operators have been warned against pricing outside the global market as the financial crisis hits. Geoffrey Baluku, a member of the Uganda Tourist Association, indicated that because of competition from neighbouring countries like Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda, and affordability levels, the operators should avoid at all cost the urge to charge fees that are higher than the global market price.
“With the deepening of the global financial crisis and economic slowdown, there is a rise of new challenges ranging from safari cancellations to soaring inflation,” Baluku said.
A total of 843,864 foreigners visited Uganda in 2008, representing a 32% increase over 2007.
“As a key contributor to Uganda’s GDP (gross domestic product), tourism accounted for 3.7% of the total GDP in 2008. Despite this increase, it is clear that Uganda’s tourism industry is facing difficult times as a result of the financial meltdown,” Baluku stressed.
He said the tourism industry was vulnerable to financial slowdowns with consumers spending less on travel products in the short-and-medium terms.
Baluku added that expenditure on accommodation and Gorilla permits had decreased drastically as visitors chose more affordable safari options.
“There was growing optimism that Uganda would soon achieve the million foreign visitor-mark by 2012.
“However, with the current global economic meltdown characterised by the upcoming tense elections in 2011, the effect on Uganda’s tourism industry is likely to be worse,” said Baluku, who is also the public relations officer of the Association of Uganda Tour Operators.
Baluku said the unstable fuel costs and fluctuating dollar rate meant that long-haul tourism was on the decline, particularly for middle income tourists, adding that this had already had an effect on Uganda’s tourism industry.
“As long-haul travel becomes increasingly unaffordable, the integration of the East African region is now paramount for the region to achieve its tourism targets.
“However, reasonable controls such as some degree of protection for the Ugandan tour operators should be taken into consideration as we go into the final stages of the re-integration.”
He noted that there was a drop in visitors from all major markets including the UK and the US.
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“With the deepening of the global financial crisis and economic slowdown, there is a rise of new challenges ranging from safari cancellations to soaring inflation,” Baluku said.
A total of 843,864 foreigners visited Uganda in 2008, representing a 32% increase over 2007.
“As a key contributor to Uganda’s GDP (gross domestic product), tourism accounted for 3.7% of the total GDP in 2008. Despite this increase, it is clear that Uganda’s tourism industry is facing difficult times as a result of the financial meltdown,” Baluku stressed.
He said the tourism industry was vulnerable to financial slowdowns with consumers spending less on travel products in the short-and-medium terms.
Baluku added that expenditure on accommodation and Gorilla permits had decreased drastically as visitors chose more affordable safari options.
“There was growing optimism that Uganda would soon achieve the million foreign visitor-mark by 2012.
“However, with the current global economic meltdown characterised by the upcoming tense elections in 2011, the effect on Uganda’s tourism industry is likely to be worse,” said Baluku, who is also the public relations officer of the Association of Uganda Tour Operators.
Baluku said the unstable fuel costs and fluctuating dollar rate meant that long-haul tourism was on the decline, particularly for middle income tourists, adding that this had already had an effect on Uganda’s tourism industry.
“As long-haul travel becomes increasingly unaffordable, the integration of the East African region is now paramount for the region to achieve its tourism targets.
“However, reasonable controls such as some degree of protection for the Ugandan tour operators should be taken into consideration as we go into the final stages of the re-integration.”
He noted that there was a drop in visitors from all major markets including the UK and the US.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crocodiles offer a snappy investment option
Rearing crocodiles is one of the investment opportunities which Ugandans can exploit in a bid to benefit from the increasing global demand for its skin and meat.
Uganda as a country is naturally endowed with these creatures. Queen Elizabeth National Park has the biggest population.
On the world market, crocodiles skin/leather is used to make ladies’ bags, belts, wallets and classy shoes. For example, a wallet made out of a crocs skin costs $200 (Shs380,000).
Realising this potential, two Ugandan businessmen together with a Zimbabwean family with a wealth of experience in crocs rearing, partnered and formed a company called Uganda Crocs Limited in 1991, with the intention of making crocs a source of income.
Uganda Crocs Limited to achieve its export goals applied and secured an International Trade in endangered Species of Wild and Flora (CITES), for a quota to export at least 2,400 skins, annually.
Anyone with the passion to venture into this business, farming of crocodiles is done in an ecologically friendly way under close supervision from UWA and within the CITES regulations.
Mr Fred Kamugira, a director in the company, said; “With this kind of supervision, there is no threat to the existence of the Nile crocodile but instead any investor will be helping to conserve the species,”
Uganda Crocs has so far invested close to $2 million dollar, in designing the crocodile model farms, setting up incubators, heated hatchling ponds, generator and tool storage, water reservoir, skinning and salting bays, cold room, housing, office a frame of lodges and an entertainment area.
Currently, the farm has only 3,000 crocodiles, on average the company earns about $50,000 (Shs95 million) per year from the little exports.
Every year around the months of February-March slaughters the two and half year old crocodiles for its lower skin which is exported to South Korea.
The meat is sold to some local restaurants licensed by UWA to sell game meat like Quality Cuts, Sam’s restaurant and some other Chinese Restaurants in Kampala city.
“Each kilogramme of crocodile meat at the open market costs Shs30, 000-40, 000,” Mr Chris Katsigazi another director said.
The investors said this could have been a bigger investment, unfortunately, this company, which enjoys the monopoly up to date, has failed to meet the required international CITES quota.
This means that for the last 15 years, when the company started exporting, the country has annually been losing close to one billion shillings worth of export revenue for failure to meet this requirement.
Kamugira said; “We would be able to meet the quota if we were able to increase on our production. But the eggs we collect from the wild under an arrangement with Uganda Wildlife Authority are not enough to sustain the quota”.
He added; “Despite the abundant eggs, which are sometimes eaten up by predators, UWA only allows us to collect 1,200 eggs, less than the 4,000 we request for annually”.
The directors of the company say that Uganda is only able to export about 300 skins yet the potential to export more is there.
Mr Katsigazi said, the company needs to have at least 10,000 crocodiles to be able to meet the CITES requirement. During the tour of the farm located 75 km off Kampala at Katebo-Buwama on the shores of Lake Victoria, Mr Chris
He said for each egg, whether normal or stale, the company pays UWA $1.
However, UWA Public Relations Manager, Ms Lillian Nsubuga in an interview about the fewer eggs they permit Uganda Crocs’ to collect said; “UWA is here to protect the sources from being depleted. Apart from this company collecting the crocs eggs, there other predators which eat the eggs, that’s why we limit the numbers”.
Ms Nsubuga further said that UWA allowed Uganda Crocs to collect 2,000 eggs but the company has always been under collecting.
Meanwhile Uganda Export Promotions Board (UEPB) together with the line ministry of trade has embarked on a campaign to see that the private businesses which are export oriented and serving a double purpose but facing challenges in their daily running are helped.
Future plans
The company’s future plan is to build breeding ponds and accumulating on the existing breeding stock, setting up a tannery so as to export processed skins as opposed to wet salted skins,” Kamugira said.
The other activities that the company wants to expand into are the game meat processing and packing for both the local and international market, plus cage fish farming both for feeding the animals and for human consumption.
The company has started trials to turn the place into a tourism site, besides crocodile farming, with activities like, hiking and fishing, water cruises and providing accommodation and catering facilities. The tourism site has been branded as ‘Camp Crocs Resort’.
The camp situated on the shores of Lake Victoria, is a 45 minutes boat ride to the Ssese Islands and a 25 minutes drive from the Uganda Equator.
Ms Carol Kamugira the Resort Manager said; “This place is well placed for tourist purposes. Therefore the plans to build more bandas for accommodation of tourists and of water sports and activities are underway”.
Education facilities for school groups, parties that visit us,
To conserve the species of Wild crocodile (Uganda Crocs Ltd returns a percentage to the
Ms Kamugira said they have in the process of constructing a website www.ugandacrocs.com which will not only increase the export of the crocodile products but also significantly contribute to tourism.
The investment of Uganda Crocs Ltd has already made significant contribution to both the local community and Uganda generally.
“The company has created close to 100 jobs and as expansion of the business is done more will be employed,” Mr Katsigazi said.
He said large numbers of workers are employed to help right from the collection of eggs from the wild, maintenance of the farm right to the labour intensive slaughtering and skinning. “With the tannery and meat processing plants in place, more employment will be created”.
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Uganda as a country is naturally endowed with these creatures. Queen Elizabeth National Park has the biggest population.
On the world market, crocodiles skin/leather is used to make ladies’ bags, belts, wallets and classy shoes. For example, a wallet made out of a crocs skin costs $200 (Shs380,000).
Realising this potential, two Ugandan businessmen together with a Zimbabwean family with a wealth of experience in crocs rearing, partnered and formed a company called Uganda Crocs Limited in 1991, with the intention of making crocs a source of income.
Uganda Crocs Limited to achieve its export goals applied and secured an International Trade in endangered Species of Wild and Flora (CITES), for a quota to export at least 2,400 skins, annually.
Anyone with the passion to venture into this business, farming of crocodiles is done in an ecologically friendly way under close supervision from UWA and within the CITES regulations.
Mr Fred Kamugira, a director in the company, said; “With this kind of supervision, there is no threat to the existence of the Nile crocodile but instead any investor will be helping to conserve the species,”
Uganda Crocs has so far invested close to $2 million dollar, in designing the crocodile model farms, setting up incubators, heated hatchling ponds, generator and tool storage, water reservoir, skinning and salting bays, cold room, housing, office a frame of lodges and an entertainment area.
Currently, the farm has only 3,000 crocodiles, on average the company earns about $50,000 (Shs95 million) per year from the little exports.
Every year around the months of February-March slaughters the two and half year old crocodiles for its lower skin which is exported to South Korea.
The meat is sold to some local restaurants licensed by UWA to sell game meat like Quality Cuts, Sam’s restaurant and some other Chinese Restaurants in Kampala city.
“Each kilogramme of crocodile meat at the open market costs Shs30, 000-40, 000,” Mr Chris Katsigazi another director said.
The investors said this could have been a bigger investment, unfortunately, this company, which enjoys the monopoly up to date, has failed to meet the required international CITES quota.
This means that for the last 15 years, when the company started exporting, the country has annually been losing close to one billion shillings worth of export revenue for failure to meet this requirement.
Kamugira said; “We would be able to meet the quota if we were able to increase on our production. But the eggs we collect from the wild under an arrangement with Uganda Wildlife Authority are not enough to sustain the quota”.
He added; “Despite the abundant eggs, which are sometimes eaten up by predators, UWA only allows us to collect 1,200 eggs, less than the 4,000 we request for annually”.
The directors of the company say that Uganda is only able to export about 300 skins yet the potential to export more is there.
Mr Katsigazi said, the company needs to have at least 10,000 crocodiles to be able to meet the CITES requirement. During the tour of the farm located 75 km off Kampala at Katebo-Buwama on the shores of Lake Victoria, Mr Chris
He said for each egg, whether normal or stale, the company pays UWA $1.
However, UWA Public Relations Manager, Ms Lillian Nsubuga in an interview about the fewer eggs they permit Uganda Crocs’ to collect said; “UWA is here to protect the sources from being depleted. Apart from this company collecting the crocs eggs, there other predators which eat the eggs, that’s why we limit the numbers”.
Ms Nsubuga further said that UWA allowed Uganda Crocs to collect 2,000 eggs but the company has always been under collecting.
Meanwhile Uganda Export Promotions Board (UEPB) together with the line ministry of trade has embarked on a campaign to see that the private businesses which are export oriented and serving a double purpose but facing challenges in their daily running are helped.
Future plans
The company’s future plan is to build breeding ponds and accumulating on the existing breeding stock, setting up a tannery so as to export processed skins as opposed to wet salted skins,” Kamugira said.
The other activities that the company wants to expand into are the game meat processing and packing for both the local and international market, plus cage fish farming both for feeding the animals and for human consumption.
The company has started trials to turn the place into a tourism site, besides crocodile farming, with activities like, hiking and fishing, water cruises and providing accommodation and catering facilities. The tourism site has been branded as ‘Camp Crocs Resort’.
The camp situated on the shores of Lake Victoria, is a 45 minutes boat ride to the Ssese Islands and a 25 minutes drive from the Uganda Equator.
Ms Carol Kamugira the Resort Manager said; “This place is well placed for tourist purposes. Therefore the plans to build more bandas for accommodation of tourists and of water sports and activities are underway”.
Education facilities for school groups, parties that visit us,
To conserve the species of Wild crocodile (Uganda Crocs Ltd returns a percentage to the
Ms Kamugira said they have in the process of constructing a website www.ugandacrocs.com which will not only increase the export of the crocodile products but also significantly contribute to tourism.
The investment of Uganda Crocs Ltd has already made significant contribution to both the local community and Uganda generally.
“The company has created close to 100 jobs and as expansion of the business is done more will be employed,” Mr Katsigazi said.
He said large numbers of workers are employed to help right from the collection of eggs from the wild, maintenance of the farm right to the labour intensive slaughtering and skinning. “With the tannery and meat processing plants in place, more employment will be created”.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Ugandan importers gain from fall in Kenyan shilling.
Bloody clashes in the first two months of 2008 and a disputed election in Kenya contributed to a decline in Kenya's tourism earnings. Kenya’s tourism earnings dropped by 32 percent in the first half of this year due to post-election violence which led to massive cancellations of bookings by visitors.
With most of the world’s currencies driven by their central value against the dollar, the Kenyan shilling’s slide against the dollar has seen it lose ground against every currency that is holding its dollar value, including that of its biggest export market, Uganda.
The Ugandan shilling, supported by buoyant dollar-denominated aid flows, is suddenly looking a lot more valuable compared with the Kenyan currency.
While a Kenyan shilling in April would buy 27 Ugandan shillings, today it buys just 23, a tumble of some 15 per cent.
The cause, say traders, is the Kenyan shillings retreat against the dollar, while the Ugandan shilling has held its dollar ground: thus the two now buy different amounts in the world, even though Kenya’s exports to Uganda have been robust, after the first quarter setback.
For Kenyan exporters, the depreciation against the Ugandan shilling comes at a hard moment. Kenya supplies many of Uganda’s manufactured goods and particularly those made from oil. This means that Kenyan producers are being hit in the marketplace from two sides. Just as they are being squeezed on one side by rising oil prices, they have to take a beating of lower revenues in their biggest export market.
This latest impact of the decline in foreign exchange earnings highlights the potential scale of secondary impact from the knock-out of an important export earner such as tourism, even as the industry gears itself back up, with bookings returning and money moving once again.
“There is now real demand for the greenback as opposed to speculative positions that people took at the beginning of the year,” says Brian Muigai, a senior dealer at NIC Bank.
On the dollar front, currency dealers say that a huge demand of the greenback against tight supply has been the driving factor behind the weakening of the Kenyan shilling.
Most of the demand is coming from the telecommunications and energy sectors as well as the large number of non-governmental and humanitarian organizations based in the country.
Dealers say that while dollar supply – mainly from horticulture, tourism, tea and coffee – has remained constant, demand for the greenback has been rising steadily.
Remittances from Kenyans living in the Diaspora have however picked up in the past few months, mitigating the full impact of declining dollar inflows from traditional sources such coffee and tea.
Dollar inflows from the Diaspora stood at $329 million for the first half of this year compared to $257 million in the first six months of 2007.
Pairs of non-US dollar currencies such as the Kenya and Ugandan Shilling are called “crosses.” One foreign currency is traded for another without having to first exchange the currencies into American dollars.
Ordinarily, an individual who wished to exchange a sum of money into a different currency would be required to convert it into US dollars, and then reconvert into the desired currency. Cross currencies help traders bypass this step.
But for non-US dollar currencies that lack crosses, a conversion to US dollars is required to work out the exchange rate.
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With most of the world’s currencies driven by their central value against the dollar, the Kenyan shilling’s slide against the dollar has seen it lose ground against every currency that is holding its dollar value, including that of its biggest export market, Uganda.
The Ugandan shilling, supported by buoyant dollar-denominated aid flows, is suddenly looking a lot more valuable compared with the Kenyan currency.
While a Kenyan shilling in April would buy 27 Ugandan shillings, today it buys just 23, a tumble of some 15 per cent.
The cause, say traders, is the Kenyan shillings retreat against the dollar, while the Ugandan shilling has held its dollar ground: thus the two now buy different amounts in the world, even though Kenya’s exports to Uganda have been robust, after the first quarter setback.
For Kenyan exporters, the depreciation against the Ugandan shilling comes at a hard moment. Kenya supplies many of Uganda’s manufactured goods and particularly those made from oil. This means that Kenyan producers are being hit in the marketplace from two sides. Just as they are being squeezed on one side by rising oil prices, they have to take a beating of lower revenues in their biggest export market.
This latest impact of the decline in foreign exchange earnings highlights the potential scale of secondary impact from the knock-out of an important export earner such as tourism, even as the industry gears itself back up, with bookings returning and money moving once again.
“There is now real demand for the greenback as opposed to speculative positions that people took at the beginning of the year,” says Brian Muigai, a senior dealer at NIC Bank.
On the dollar front, currency dealers say that a huge demand of the greenback against tight supply has been the driving factor behind the weakening of the Kenyan shilling.
Most of the demand is coming from the telecommunications and energy sectors as well as the large number of non-governmental and humanitarian organizations based in the country.
Dealers say that while dollar supply – mainly from horticulture, tourism, tea and coffee – has remained constant, demand for the greenback has been rising steadily.
Remittances from Kenyans living in the Diaspora have however picked up in the past few months, mitigating the full impact of declining dollar inflows from traditional sources such coffee and tea.
Dollar inflows from the Diaspora stood at $329 million for the first half of this year compared to $257 million in the first six months of 2007.
Pairs of non-US dollar currencies such as the Kenya and Ugandan Shilling are called “crosses.” One foreign currency is traded for another without having to first exchange the currencies into American dollars.
Ordinarily, an individual who wished to exchange a sum of money into a different currency would be required to convert it into US dollars, and then reconvert into the desired currency. Cross currencies help traders bypass this step.
But for non-US dollar currencies that lack crosses, a conversion to US dollars is required to work out the exchange rate.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Uganda’s oldest Chimpanzee, Zakayo turns 44
Growing up i remember going to the then Entebbe Zoo, which has now been transformed into the Uganda Wildlife Education Center. The main attraction then was and still is Zakayo, a male chimpanzee whose name is probably more well known among the younger generation in Uganda than many people's names. This Chimpanzee which was brought to the zoo in 1976 turned 44 years old early this month. To mark this great occasion the Uganada Wildlife Education Centre hosted the public to celebrate this old grandpa's birthday party on Friday 15th of August. One would have thought it was a politician or some big shot who was celebrating his birthday party.
According to the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre press release, Zakayo is one of the main attractions at the Conservation centre and his birthday deserved to be recognized together with a number of activities and the public needed to be invited. In the past this celebration involved the public mainly schools that came in bus loads and involves answering questions especially in connection to wildlife conservation, quiz and other competitions during the celebration.
Zakayo was rescued from Semliki in Bundibungyo district in june 1972 and was raised by hand. It is said to be very fatherly to the rest of the chimpanzees in the education centre going out and coming in the morning and evenings respectively. Zakayo has sired 8 chimpanzees since his arrival at the centre.
The Education centre officials urged the public to continue supporting tourism which has was the second highest income earner to the country in 2007.
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According to the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre press release, Zakayo is one of the main attractions at the Conservation centre and his birthday deserved to be recognized together with a number of activities and the public needed to be invited. In the past this celebration involved the public mainly schools that came in bus loads and involves answering questions especially in connection to wildlife conservation, quiz and other competitions during the celebration.
Zakayo was rescued from Semliki in Bundibungyo district in june 1972 and was raised by hand. It is said to be very fatherly to the rest of the chimpanzees in the education centre going out and coming in the morning and evenings respectively. Zakayo has sired 8 chimpanzees since his arrival at the centre.
The Education centre officials urged the public to continue supporting tourism which has was the second highest income earner to the country in 2007.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
The Mpanga Cycad plants
The cycads plants in the area surrounding the Mpanga falls may soon be no more despite their environmental values and the income it generates for the communities around from the tourists and botanist who visit the region. The government of Uganda wishes uses these falls to generate the much need electricity for the development of the country with the help of the South Asia Energy Management Systems. However, environmentalists like Achilles Byaruhanga argue that the destruction of the cycad plants is in contravention of the Convention on Biological Diversity. On the other hand protagonists of the proposed development argue that the economical development that will accompany the development of the 18 Mega Watts hydro power plant far surpasses the need to conserve the area and the cycads plants and the falls and the “paltry” income the Banyaruguru and communities around are getting from the tourism. Achilles Byaruhanga argues that the destruction of these 200-300 year old trees is not worth the construction of the power plant. The cycad plants have been described as the “dinosaurs of Uganda” by many conservationists and tourists around the world.
This is indeed a catch-22 for both developers and conservationists not only in Uganda but around the world. Development without a good conservation program is a definite way to a country to loss out in the end, since there will be no way to ensure continuity of what has been achieved.
The protagonists argue that 200-300 year old plants mean nothing to the poor communities in which they are found. However, if we continue to destroy all that is around us with no regard for environmental impacts that will result we are only shooting ourselves in the foot. It is not any different from bandaging a wound without cleaning it and a not thinking about its proper healing, it will only lead to gangrene.
On the other hand we have to look at ways of fostering development while thinking about the future generations rather than looking at short term goals which are sure to leave us playing catch-up and trying to remedy the situation.
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This is indeed a catch-22 for both developers and conservationists not only in Uganda but around the world. Development without a good conservation program is a definite way to a country to loss out in the end, since there will be no way to ensure continuity of what has been achieved.
The protagonists argue that 200-300 year old plants mean nothing to the poor communities in which they are found. However, if we continue to destroy all that is around us with no regard for environmental impacts that will result we are only shooting ourselves in the foot. It is not any different from bandaging a wound without cleaning it and a not thinking about its proper healing, it will only lead to gangrene.
On the other hand we have to look at ways of fostering development while thinking about the future generations rather than looking at short term goals which are sure to leave us playing catch-up and trying to remedy the situation.
For Uganda Wildlife Safari and Wildlife tours visit the Uganda Safari Company
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Rebels Hampering Gorilla Conservation in The Congo
Mountain gorillas are an endangered species with just over 750 left in the wilds of the region bordering Uganda, Congo and Rwanda. These 3 countries have greatly tried to increase conservation efforts to protect these primates, however, the Democratic Republic of Congo's efforts are being hampered by the take over of the Virunga national park since september last year. This is home of approximately half of the mountain gorilla population left in the wild.
Early this month a group of the Mai Mai rebels set ambush on a vehicle carrying conservationists killing 2 and wounding three. This on the heels of the murder of 5 mountain gorillas last year. This a very huge number of gorillas considering their population. These rebels do not only kill these mountain gorillas but have also started taking naive tourists gorilla tracking. This is not only financing the rebels but also paying the very same people who kill these primates for meat. Besides they do not follow the rules associated with gorilla tracking tours.
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Early this month a group of the Mai Mai rebels set ambush on a vehicle carrying conservationists killing 2 and wounding three. This on the heels of the murder of 5 mountain gorillas last year. This a very huge number of gorillas considering their population. These rebels do not only kill these mountain gorillas but have also started taking naive tourists gorilla tracking. This is not only financing the rebels but also paying the very same people who kill these primates for meat. Besides they do not follow the rules associated with gorilla tracking tours.
For Bwindi gorilla tracking in Uganda and Rwanda gorilla tour visit the gorilla tracking company.
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