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UWA staff get online skills to guard wildlife
Tuesday April 20 2021
Tourists visit Queen Elizabeth National Park. Six lions were found dead at Ishasha sector of the park last month. PHOTO /courtesy
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The government is training wildlife law enforcement officers from Uganda Wildlife Authority on mobile forensic investigations to enhance in-house investigation capacity in fighting illegal wildlife trade.
This comes at a time when perpetrators of wildlife crimes are employing online technology to communicate and make transactions, a development that is challenging the existing skills of law enforcers in mitigating the crimes.
The training which is going on in Kampala until April 23, is being done by Israeli digital intelligence firm Cellebrite, with financial support from the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF).
UWA to shift white rhinos trapped in sanctuary fight
Tuesday April 20 2021
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Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary that is located about 176kms North of Kampala City, was established in 2006 as a protected area for re-introduction of the rear White Rhino family that had become extinct in Uganda.
Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is a home to 33 Rhinos re-introduced in Uganda through a breed and release programme supervised by the Uganda Wildlife but managed by the Rhino Fund Uganda in Nakasongola District.
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The Uganda Wild Life Authority (UWA) has taken over security of the endangered White Rhinos species at the Nakasongola-based Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary due to unending disagreements between the two parties managing the country’s sole Rhino sanctuary.
Retired Italian diplomat arrested in Bugolobi over ivory pieces
April 15, 2021 Diego Marino Enrico
Diego Marino Enrico, a retired Italian diplomat is in trouble after being found in possession of over 5 kilograms of ivory.
A team of detectives from Bugolobi police station in Kampala picked up Marino on Tuesday following a search at his residence in Panda–Pier Village in Nakawa Division that yielded the ivory and transferred him to Jinja Road police station.
Marino’s arrest came a day after his Ugandan wife was detained at Bugolobi police station together with Panda–Pier village LC I chairperson, Joseph Tomusange, who was caught with 2.5Kgs of worked ivory pieces following a trap laid by officers from the Natural Resources Conservation Network (NRCN) working closely with detectives from police who presented themselves as buyers of the ivory.