The President of Uganda Promotes Tourisim In UK.
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni not so long ago officially opened his Presidential program for Sustainable Tourism (PRESTO) in the capital of England London in an effort to draw a larger number of tourists to Uganda than they currently are. At the ceremony, there were a number of tour operators, numerous prospective investors, so many business people, with Ugandans and people from other countries in African in the Diaspora. The presentation was intended to reveal Uganda’s tourism potentials by using posters and pictures of different wildlife, flora and fauna plus the cultural tradition especially the rich Karamanjong culture. During the exhibition, Ugandan coffee and tea was served to the guests at Central hall Westminster. The PRESTO launch comes after the Brussels Expo Holiday Fair in Belgium at the beginning of this month in which Uganda apart.
The minister of Tourism ,Wildlife and Heriatge Prof Ephraim Kamuntu together with his Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Patrick Mugoya also attended the PRESTO’s official opening. The president added that the tourism sector is very important sector in the economy of Uganda given the fact it is a source of employment of number of people in and at the same time a large sum of foreign exchange.
Yeweri Museveni precisely had to launch his program from London because UK is the major source of tourists that come to Uganda while in 2011 Uganda was honored and identified as the best Tourism Destination for this year 2012and was selected by the Lonely Planet. He added that Mountain Ruwenzori national park is one of the best hiking places in the whole of Africa and in the world at large; Virunga Volcanoes is one place that one visits in this year and other 20 selected places that one has got not to miss out. Meanwhile the Bwindi Impenetrable forest which popular because of the existing mountain gorillas selected as best birding place in Africa.
Murchison Falls National Park was among the best 10 birding places in Africa while the popular tree-climbing lions in Ishasha in Queen Elizabeth national park were selected as the photos of the month in the National Geographic magazine.
Friday, 2 March 2012
Thursday, 1 March 2012
PRINCE URGES CONSERVATIONIST TO PUT AN END TO POACHING.
The death of Max the white rhino
It was a sadden to Prince William after receiving the news that his friend’s rhino which was slaughtered by poachers just to get it horn which horns are on high demand especially in Asian countries. Max, the white rhinoceros was shot 17 times and later had it horn chopped off in Kenya. In spite of the fact that the rangers had most of its horn as a way of protecting it from these illegal hunters, it was still killed for just a small piece of its horn that was still remaining on its head.
Max was an element in the documentary called the Last Chance To See ad had been looked after by Ian Craig who is the father of Prince William’s former girlfriend Jecca. According to the information that was got, Mr. Craig is the owner of the Lewa wildlife reserve in Kenya although at the time the rhino had been transferred to the Ol Pejeta sanctuary because he had aged and could not look after it very well and it was at Ol Pejeta sanctuary that it was killed from. In 2001 prince Williams spent six weeks volunteering at Mr. Craig’s conservation project and while there he often met Max on his trips to Africa.
Prince William , after seeing and appreciating the work done by Mr. Craig with rhinos, he later became a patron of the Tusk Trust and organization responsible for protecting animals. at the same time, A St James‘s Palace spokesman also mentioned that the Prince was horrified to learn about the death of Max which is why he still encourages all the responsible bodies to protect and conserve rhinos and elephants and has also asked Tusk Trust to inform him of the latest news from Africa.
Poachers constantly slaughter rhinos only to sell In Asia, a kilo of rhino horns cost £40, 00 . where they believe that they can obtain medicine from a rhino horn especially cancer medicine. However Charlie Mayhew, a co-founder of the Tusk Trust, mentioned that the death of Max is an example of what is happening else where in many African countries due to a high demands for the horns more in China and Vietnam.
The Prince is very much interested in seeing the number of rhinos and elephants increasing and having illegal hunting stamped out and this is something he just loves doing and help see up to it that the progression of illegal trade is stopped. Mr. Mayhew also added that this vice of rhino-poaching is at the moment pan-African and said that Zimbabwe lost six rhinos in just one year and that was something he got know while at one of the reserve in Zimbabwe. Just last year in South Africa, there was a rhino being killed in every 20 hrs on average by poachers and this year, South Africa has so far lost 70 and more rhinos to poachers. This therefore demands that the conservations come up with tough measures to curb down the vice in Africa.
It was a sadden to Prince William after receiving the news that his friend’s rhino which was slaughtered by poachers just to get it horn which horns are on high demand especially in Asian countries. Max, the white rhinoceros was shot 17 times and later had it horn chopped off in Kenya. In spite of the fact that the rangers had most of its horn as a way of protecting it from these illegal hunters, it was still killed for just a small piece of its horn that was still remaining on its head.
Max was an element in the documentary called the Last Chance To See ad had been looked after by Ian Craig who is the father of Prince William’s former girlfriend Jecca. According to the information that was got, Mr. Craig is the owner of the Lewa wildlife reserve in Kenya although at the time the rhino had been transferred to the Ol Pejeta sanctuary because he had aged and could not look after it very well and it was at Ol Pejeta sanctuary that it was killed from. In 2001 prince Williams spent six weeks volunteering at Mr. Craig’s conservation project and while there he often met Max on his trips to Africa.
Prince William , after seeing and appreciating the work done by Mr. Craig with rhinos, he later became a patron of the Tusk Trust and organization responsible for protecting animals. at the same time, A St James‘s Palace spokesman also mentioned that the Prince was horrified to learn about the death of Max which is why he still encourages all the responsible bodies to protect and conserve rhinos and elephants and has also asked Tusk Trust to inform him of the latest news from Africa.
Poachers constantly slaughter rhinos only to sell In Asia, a kilo of rhino horns cost £40, 00 . where they believe that they can obtain medicine from a rhino horn especially cancer medicine. However Charlie Mayhew, a co-founder of the Tusk Trust, mentioned that the death of Max is an example of what is happening else where in many African countries due to a high demands for the horns more in China and Vietnam.
The Prince is very much interested in seeing the number of rhinos and elephants increasing and having illegal hunting stamped out and this is something he just loves doing and help see up to it that the progression of illegal trade is stopped. Mr. Mayhew also added that this vice of rhino-poaching is at the moment pan-African and said that Zimbabwe lost six rhinos in just one year and that was something he got know while at one of the reserve in Zimbabwe. Just last year in South Africa, there was a rhino being killed in every 20 hrs on average by poachers and this year, South Africa has so far lost 70 and more rhinos to poachers. This therefore demands that the conservations come up with tough measures to curb down the vice in Africa.
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