DAR ES SALAAM | Xinhua | The World Travel Awards (WTA) has, for the sixth time in a row, crowned Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park as Africa’s leading national park in 2024, the Tanzania National Parks said in a statement on Saturday. In addition, the statement said WTA will also declare …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security teams are pursuing suspected ADF rebels, said to have killed two foreign tourists and a Ugandan in Queen Elizabeth National Park today. Police spokesman Fred Enanga confirmed the incident, saying the suspected rebels thereafter torched a land cruiser belonging to Wild Gorilla Safaris registration number …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has identified the phasing out of 11 human settlements within Queen Elizabeth National Park as the only long-term solution to the persistent human-wildlife conflict in the area. The presence of these communities has posed a significant challenge, resulting in the …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stray elephants from Queen Elizabeth National Park have destroyed crops in Kyalanga village, Karusandara Sub County, Kasese district. More than 20 acres of bananas, maize, and potatoes were destroyed. Farmers said the attacks by stray animals are compounding the food insecurity brought about by poor …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | The World Travel Awards (WTA) has declared Tanzania’s Serengeti as the 2021 Africa’s leading national park, the Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) said in a statement on Thursday. The statement signed by TANAPA’s senior assistant conservation commissioner for corporate communications, Pascal Shelutete, said Serengeti becomes …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man who killed one of Uganda’s silverback Mountain Gorilla’s; Rafiki in a hunting escapade will spend 11-years in jail after pleading guilty to the charges, Rafiki, a member of the Silverback family from Nkuringo Group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park was the head of …
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Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Ugandan authorities were on Monday hunting for a leopard that snatched and ate the three-year-old son of a female ranger working in the popular Queen Elizabeth National Park. The boy had been left in the care of a nanny at the unfenced staff quarters of a safari …
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