Origins and Background of Inzu Ya Masaaba
Mount Elgon is a bit of a secret. Its mesmerising beauty and the unhurried tempo of the surrounding communities make this region an ideal place to relax, breathe in plenty of fresh air and be refreshed. It is also at the heat of the Masaba land.
It is also an ancient mountain, a volcano that has been standing solitary and silent for millennia, its base one of the largest in the world, its springs feeding numerous rivers and waterfalls, its rich soil nourishing communities across two countries and where you can wander the uncrowded trails to its summit at over four thousand meters (or fourteen thousand feet).
It is on this some mountain where the Inzu Ya Masaaba is situated in the Eastern region of Uganda. Mount Elgon is at the heart of Masaaba land. Inzu Ya Masaaba is the home to Mbale Town and its neighboring districts.
Today the Bamasaaba believ that their ancestors were called Mundu and Sera whom tradition says came from Ethiopian Highlands and settled at the peak of Mt. Masaaba (Elgon). Their early life seems to have been anti-social, almost based on the principle “survival of the fittest. The earliest immigrants of Bugisu (Masaaba) are believed to have moved into the Mt Elgon area during the 16th century.
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Uganda Safari Blog: TARANGIRE WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ELEPHANTS.
Uganda Safari Blog: TARANGIRE WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ELEPHANTS.: Tarangire National park is being reportedly as one of the highest rate of elephant increase of maximum 7% of each year. This is recorded e...
TARANGIRE WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ELEPHANTS.
Tarangire National park is being reportedly as one of the highest rate of elephant increase of maximum 7% of each year. This is recorded ever in the Jumbo production rate that is done every year in African. The director of Tarangire Elephant Project, Dr Charles Foley for 25 years he has been doing a study about these huge mammals in the park and he has found out that the rate at which elephant grow is almost 175 mammals per year and this is the highest rate in Africa although the jumbos ‘is still low. The Tarangire Eco-system also combines the Lake Manyara National Park which is about 20,000 square kilometers and it is supposed to be for the Jumbos’ density although it is very low when compared to the rest so says Dr Foley the Assistant Director of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) programme in Tanzania at the same time.
There are 3200 elephants in the Tarangire eco-system and considering the seven per cent increase of every year from the 2500 jumbo population counted during the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) census of 2009.
Tanzania had about 110,000 elephants coming after Botswana with 123, 000 which has the highest numbers of Jumbos in Africa. However, Dr Foley, Selou Game Reserve had got 45,000 elephants therefore the highest number of large mammals in the country, in second position is Ruaha National park with 35,000 jumbos. Tarangire National Park, together with Monduli, Babati and Simanjiro Districts in Arusha and Manyara regions, is the sixth biggest national park in the country after Ruaha, Serengeti, Mikumi, Katavi and Mkomazi.
This park got its name from Dr Charles Foley the all-season Tarangire River which meanders through the eco-system and it is the main source of water for all the wildlife in the park especially in the dry season.
There are 3200 elephants in the Tarangire eco-system and considering the seven per cent increase of every year from the 2500 jumbo population counted during the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) census of 2009.
Tanzania had about 110,000 elephants coming after Botswana with 123, 000 which has the highest numbers of Jumbos in Africa. However, Dr Foley, Selou Game Reserve had got 45,000 elephants therefore the highest number of large mammals in the country, in second position is Ruaha National park with 35,000 jumbos. Tarangire National Park, together with Monduli, Babati and Simanjiro Districts in Arusha and Manyara regions, is the sixth biggest national park in the country after Ruaha, Serengeti, Mikumi, Katavi and Mkomazi.
This park got its name from Dr Charles Foley the all-season Tarangire River which meanders through the eco-system and it is the main source of water for all the wildlife in the park especially in the dry season.
Biridng In Queen Elizabeth National Park
CONSERVE LAKE MUNYANYANGE.
In Queen Elizabeth National Park there tourist enjoy the visiting just so that they can have an opportunity to watch the different kinds of Uganda wildlife and again the tourist also love it while at the salty lake in Lake Katwe to watch people as they mine different types of salt in their natural form. At the same time other tourist love it just to listen to the sound and songs of birds round Lake Munyanyange which is located just a few meters away from Lake Katwe in Katwe-Kabatooro town council.
Birding expert Mr. Richardson Ouma and field guide who is a at Katwe Tourist Information Centre (Katic) mentioned that currently Bird watching has become an interest activities to many tourist who come to Uganda and at Lake Munyanyange, Tourist hearing sound of birds singing that they some times imitate them. There are so many migrate birds from far places like Canada, Tanzania, Kenya , plus so many other places and they settle at Lake Munyanyange and they include the likes of White Browed Robbin Chats, Black Headed Gonoleks, Long Tailed Starlings, African Hoopoes, Winding, Zitting, Flamingos, Desert Cisticolas among so many others.Lake Munyanyange is the dead salty lake which was once used to mine salt from it. It is small and shallow Crater Lake which appears only in the wet season in the North East of Katwe town. It is therefore a home to so many birds and has the largest number of the lesser black-backed gulls, Larus fuscus. These birds can be referred to as Palearctic migrants because they usually are no the move in October and leave in April. Ouma said that these birds love this lake because they find it safe since at some point in time then lake becomes a muddy ground and therefore the animals find it hard to go after the birds to feed on them
KATIC seeing all these beautiful birds all around difference places and nations, now he intends to fence off the lake so that the rest of the animals do not have access to the lake and this project will be monitored by Nature Uganda, an NGO whose representative they are still waiting upon so that they birds are not affected in the process.Martin Kikoni Muhindo, the Katwe-Kabatooro Town Council Clerk offered Shs5m from the council to help alleviate the environmental pressure in the two lakes. This comes after the September 2011partnership between urban authority and KATIC towards management of crater lakes in the region. He added that there are about 32 water bird species that have been identified at the lake while they were doing waterfowl counts of July 2010, a total of about 410 birds representing 11 species were confirmed. Uganda Safari.
In Queen Elizabeth National Park there tourist enjoy the visiting just so that they can have an opportunity to watch the different kinds of Uganda wildlife and again the tourist also love it while at the salty lake in Lake Katwe to watch people as they mine different types of salt in their natural form. At the same time other tourist love it just to listen to the sound and songs of birds round Lake Munyanyange which is located just a few meters away from Lake Katwe in Katwe-Kabatooro town council.
Birding expert Mr. Richardson Ouma and field guide who is a at Katwe Tourist Information Centre (Katic) mentioned that currently Bird watching has become an interest activities to many tourist who come to Uganda and at Lake Munyanyange, Tourist hearing sound of birds singing that they some times imitate them. There are so many migrate birds from far places like Canada, Tanzania, Kenya , plus so many other places and they settle at Lake Munyanyange and they include the likes of White Browed Robbin Chats, Black Headed Gonoleks, Long Tailed Starlings, African Hoopoes, Winding, Zitting, Flamingos, Desert Cisticolas among so many others.Lake Munyanyange is the dead salty lake which was once used to mine salt from it. It is small and shallow Crater Lake which appears only in the wet season in the North East of Katwe town. It is therefore a home to so many birds and has the largest number of the lesser black-backed gulls, Larus fuscus. These birds can be referred to as Palearctic migrants because they usually are no the move in October and leave in April. Ouma said that these birds love this lake because they find it safe since at some point in time then lake becomes a muddy ground and therefore the animals find it hard to go after the birds to feed on them
KATIC seeing all these beautiful birds all around difference places and nations, now he intends to fence off the lake so that the rest of the animals do not have access to the lake and this project will be monitored by Nature Uganda, an NGO whose representative they are still waiting upon so that they birds are not affected in the process.Martin Kikoni Muhindo, the Katwe-Kabatooro Town Council Clerk offered Shs5m from the council to help alleviate the environmental pressure in the two lakes. This comes after the September 2011partnership between urban authority and KATIC towards management of crater lakes in the region. He added that there are about 32 water bird species that have been identified at the lake while they were doing waterfowl counts of July 2010, a total of about 410 birds representing 11 species were confirmed. Uganda Safari.
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