Over the past week, there have emerged excruciating cases of poachers killing wildlife in Ugandan national parks. Earlier, a silverback gorilla was reported missing and later found dead in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park while a buffalo was also killed by poachers in Queen Elizabeth national park.
Following less Tourism activity around national parks, poaching has reportedly worsened as a result of bleach in security. Uganda Wildlife Authority officials in Queen Elizabeth National park have embarked on increased deployment on staff to fight the vice.
According to Pontius Ezuma, the Queen Elizabeth National Park area conservation manager, while commenting on reasons for the increased deployment revealed that a group of local residents of Kihiihi Sub County in Kanungu district were arrested for killing a one-month-old buffalo calf that was hit by a trap that had been laid for its mother meaning poachers had started to rob from the national park.
Ezuma further said that the poachers had laid traps near Bukorwe sector headquarters in Kihiihi sub-county Kanungu district. He further explains that the national park’s patrol team quickly responded to the loud noise from the mother buffalo crying for its calf and arrested one of the poachers while others managed to escape.
With the increased staff deployment, Uganda wildlife Authority together with the park’s authorities continue to be vigilant on all park’s boarders to keep poachers abay.
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