eleblog

“A French tourist visitor had a near fatal run in with an elephant at Murchisons Falls National Park last week. Ignoring guidance habitually given to visitors, to take a ranger with them for their game drive, the group approached some elephants to within very close range before switching their car engine off. Little did they know that a female elephant with a small cub was taking this intrusion into her space as a potential threat to her newly born and promptly went on the attack.” - Travel Video Television News

“The elephant population in Uganda’s wildlife reserves and game parks has been growing steadily to about 5,000 since the near depletion of the gigantic mammals under the regime of late dictator Idi Amin, a top conservation official said Wednesday. Ecologists say during the late 1960s, jungles in the east African country’s wilderness were teeming with over 30,000 elephants, in both gazetted areas and elephant migratory corridors.” - Earth Times

“The elephant population in Queen Elizabeth National Park has hit the level of three decades ago of about 3,000. According to a census report released by the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), the elephant population is about 2,959, up from 2,497 in 2004.” - New Vision Online

“Kenyan wildlife authorities killed a notorious elephant poacher near one of its famed national parks, officials said on Friday, as neighbouring Uganda reported a huge seizure of illegal ivory.” - News24

“A herd of 150 elephants has crossed from southern Sudan into Uganda, causing panic as the beasts camped in the villages near Otze-Dufile wildlife reserve in Moyo district.” - New Vision Online

“Uganda is to intensify efforts of cracking down on illegal trade in elephant ivory following the acquisition of ivory detectors early this month.” - Xinhua

“An elephant gored a tourist to death in a Ugandan national park after the man, carrying an eight-year-old boy in his arms, approached the animal’s calf, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.” - IOL

“The number of elephants in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park rose by over 1 000 in the past two-three years, partly because of animals fleeing poachers and civil war in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, an official said on Monday.” - IOL

“The armed forces have joined forces with the courts to fight poaching in Uganda’s national parks after an army officer was court-martialled for killing seven elephants, officials said on Wednesday.” - news24.com

“A Ugandan army officer has been sentenced to 18 month’s imprisonment for masterminding the killing of seven elephants in Murchison Falls National Park in north western Uganda last July with the aim of stealing ivory, army officials confirmed on Monday. ” - news24.com

“Six years after the international community banned ivory trade, poachers still pose a big threat to Uganda’s elephants. ” - Inter Press Service News Agency