The park authorities appealed to the public, especially those transiting through protected areas to take precaution and avoid putting themselves in harm’s way. On 25 January, 2021, a traveler was trampled to death by an elephant at Uganda‘s Murchison Falls National Park, while passing through the park to Arua town in West Nile. A statement […]
Bar Aviation Uganda, a Uganda based Aviation Company offering daily domestic scheduled flights and private charters, announced will launch daily scheduled flights to Uganda safari parks and tourist attractions from 01 February 2022. The launch of daily, scheduled domestic flights to numerous National Park locations in Uganda and three weekly flights to Arua City, north […]
The Big Birding Day (BBD) 2021 is here! The Big Bird Day 2021 is on Saturday 4th December! How to Participate in Big Bird Day? Go birding anywhere you are in Uganda on Saturday 4th December 2021; Big Birding Day short for BBD is a national birding activity in Uganda that combines avian conservation with […]
Rwanda Introduce 30 Wild White Rhinos to Akagera National Park Speaking during the press conference on the introduction of 30 wild White Rhinos to Kagera National Park, Ariella Kageruka, the Acting Chief Tourism Officer at Rwanda Development Board (RDB), hailed the translocation of rhinos as a historic milestone for Rwanda’s conservation drive. The translocation of […]
Doha based Qatar Airways and Kigali based RwandAir have signed a comprehensive codeshare agreement today. Customers of both airlines will benefit from convenient access to more than 65 global codeshare destinations. Rwandan flag carrier will also launch new non-stop flights between their Kigali hub and Doha from December. Qatar Airways and RwandAir have signed a comprehensive codeshare […]
Branded as the East African Regional Tourism Expo (EARTE) 2021, the exhibition is scheduled to open from October 9 to 16. The event is has attracted key tourism players from the EAC member states. The East African Regional Tourism Expo 2021 is the first regional tourism expo to take place in East Africa, targeting to […]
Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF), the leading international organisation dedicated to giraffe conservation and management in the wild, shared a tweet in what it described at “some good news” and also when a well laid out plan works for giraffe conservation in Uganda. Uganda is home to one of the most threatened subspecies of giraffe: the […]
Rwanda will celebrate this year’s World Gorilla Day by naming 24 baby mountain gorillas born during the last 12 months in the 17th edition of the Kwita Izina ceremony taking place virtually on 24 September 2021. Kwita Izina, a uniquely Rwandan ceremony introduced in 2005 with the aim of creating awareness of conservation efforts for […]
Switzerland’s leading leisure airline, Edelweiss has announced to add Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, as its three new destinations in Tanzania, East Africa from October 2021, offering a ray of hope to the country’s multi-million dollar tourism industry. Edelweiss will fly from Zurich, Switzerland to Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania twice a week from […]
Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) announced the temporary closure of Kazinga Channel Bridge at Katungura along the Kasese-Katunguru-Ishaka Road for emergency rehabilitation works, in June this year, To prevent motorists from battling congestion, detours and frustrations as they use the busy Kazinga channel bridge that connects Queen Elizabeth national park, Kasese Town and other surrounding […]
