• Disrupting Illegal Wildlife Trade Through Financial Investigation

    According to the Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, Africa is estimated to lose more than $50bn a year in illicit financial flows. Uganda loses an average of $509m in illicit outflows per year…

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  • Countering Wildlife Crime: Livelihoods, Intelligence, Prosecution Capacity Building in Uganda

    Despite the great strides made to recover Uganda’s protected areas, poaching still prevails in vulnerable park-adjacent areas…

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  • Recovery in Murchison Falls Conservation Area (MFCA)

    MFCA is a hugely important component of Uganda’s protected area network and the biggest of all measuring 5200 sq. km. In the 1960s Murchison Falls was famed for its abundance of wildlife…

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  • Recovery of Greater Dura

    UCF has a comprehensive plan for the recovery of the Dura sector: 400km² of land north of Lake George, which builds on the success of the Waterways project. Dura – a Ramsar site and Biosphere Reserve – links QECA to Kibale Forest National Park…

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  • Waterways Project

    The network of boat stations across QE is proving to be successful beyond initial hopes. Their strategic positioning is reducing the elephant and hippo poaching problems, in particular, across both Lakes George and Edward…

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  • Welcome to the Wild-Leo Project

    Poaching is a major challenge to conservation worldwide. The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has for decades suffered from lack of intelligence gathering, research and law enforcement information management…

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