Raging bull elephants fight for supremacy (and the girls) in ferocious clash on plains of Africa
Like a real-life Clash of the Titans, these eight-ton elephants tear into each other for supremacy on the plains of Africa. The two enormous raging bulls – each 13ft high – fight for the affection of herd females, who fled in terror at the macho display. With five-foot long ivory tusks acting like daggers, the duelling elephants ram each More...
Norway suspends funding to WWF
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Funding to two projects being implemented by World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in Tanzania has been suspended by the Royal Norwegian government pending investigations into embezzlement. Norwegian More...
Presidential Palace Museum: Bringing Rwanda’s History to life
The former State House is now a Museum Located in Kanombe, the eastern suburb of Kigali City, approximately 4 kilometres from Kigali International Airport, 300 meters from Kanombe Military Court – is the Presidential More...
Orphaned South African rhino regains sight
The £2,500 operation on Roccy was funded by donations from guests at the luxury Elandela lodge An orphaned South African rhinoceros, blinded by poachers who hit it on the head in the same attack that killed its More...
Researchers to study Rondo forest species
The government is planning to dispatch researchers to study the effects of Maesopsis eminii, the invasive plant species threatening to turn extinct East Africa’s biggest coastal forest located in Lindi Region. The More...
Conservationists warn on legalising rhino horn trade
Some the 162 kilograms of ivory and other animal products impounded while being smuggled, in the capital Kampala. Reports from the Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) indicate that talks are underway to legalise More...
GIFTED BY NATURE: Saddle- billed stork
The Saddle-billed Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family. It is a widespread species which is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa, and in The More...
A breakfast fit for a king in Kampala
Nyama choma is one of the delights at this restaurant. Today, twenty thousand bob for lunch in town is just about the going rate for a worthwhile meal; computed on a monthly basis, this would come to around a cool More...
Historical KICC hotel back to life
Back in the 70s, atop the Kenyatta International Conference Centre was a restaurant. Not just an ordinary one, but a revolving restaurant and popular among ‘who was who’ back then, especially the political honchos More...
USAID gifts UWA with rescue equipment
Rwenzoris incharge of treking John Hunwick talks to Edwardson and Musinguzi. PHOTO by Wilfred Sanya Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has received mountain rescue equipment from aid agency USAID that will be used More...
