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'm in a two-man tent in Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda, a very different experience to my usual camping trips in France, with their rhythmic lullaby of chirping crickets.

Human-wildlife conflict has become a pressing issue for communities living near protected areas across Uganda, and it is most visible along the borders of Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Queen Elizabeth National Park, one of Uganda’s most popular conservation sites, is in a remote area of southwestern Uganda near the Congo border. The ADF has seemingly started to ramp up attacks ...

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 ...

The couple was killed Tuesday alongside their local safari guide at the Queen Elizabeth National Park in southwestern Uganda, police said, adding that the victims’ vehicle was also set ablaze by ...

Bashir Hangi, spokesman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, said late Tuesday that the attackers set on fire the vehicle in which the group was traveling just outside Queen Elizabeth National Park.

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.