BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JULY 02, 2023 While growing up as a child, Ben Afidra Amorimvapi, a resident of Degiya village, Olali parish-Ogoko Sub County developed fondness for White Rhinos. With his village home sitting on what was a controlled hunting area of Ajai wildlife reserve, Amorimvapi points to …
Read More »The Endemic Killing of Hippopotamus in Murchison Falls National Park
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU PAKWACH: July 23, 2021 Every month Jimmy Olore, a self-confessed hippopotamus hunter and his folks from Pujwang Village make up to six forays along a three kilometer journey on River Nile to Pakwach Bridge. This is one of the spots in the Murchison Falls National Park (MFNP), …
Read More »Poachers’ Den Turns Wildlife Haven: the story of Ajai
ARUA: SEPTEMBER 02, 2020 This solutions journalism project investigating whether helping people fight poverty could protect wildlife was produced BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU with support from InfoNile and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network. A wildlife reserve is recovering from the heavy poaching of the 1970s and 80s A community’s efforts to reduce poaching by …
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