By Ashoka Mukpo This is the fourth story in the Mongabay Series – Protected Areas in East Africa. Read Part One,Two and Three In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of ...

I was holding on for dear life in the passenger seat of a Toyota van as it careened across Queen Elizabeth National Park in southwestern Uganda. In the dry grasslands of the Kasenyi Plains, my driver ...

The World Bank's study using the LEWIE-LITE model shows that nature-based tourism in Uganda significantly boosts local ...

Uganda's police said the trio were killed, and their vehicle burned, in the Queen Elizabeth National Park. Police said joint forces were pursuing suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces ...

Mongabay visited one of Uganda’s largest protected areas, the Queen Elizabeth National Park, in October 2023 to take a deeper look at this debate. Our reporter, Ashoka Mukpo, wanted to see how ...

The massive swim – equivalent to the aquatic leg of an Olympic triathlon – was the pair’s fourth attempt to cross the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, and was ...

In the 1970s, Uganda’s gorillas faced another existential ... and on a field trip to Queen Elizabeth National Park she saw firsthand how little wildlife remained, even in conservation areas.

This is the highest number in Uganda and at least five to 10 times higher than in the Kidepo and Queen Elizabeth parks. In Queen Elizabeth national park, home to the tree-climbing lions ...

Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay. Today, Queen Elizabeth National Park is the most popular tourist attraction in Uganda, accounting for a quarter of all visitors to the country’s national parks.