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(March 12, 2025)   -   Uganda, Kampala, March 12, 2025—WCS scientists and partners have developed a new method for monitoring wildlife that can be applied when direct sampling is not possible.

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(February 26, 2025)   -   Uganda's large carnivores, including lions, leopards, and African wild dogs have been facing steep declines over the past decades. Lion populations, for example, have dropped from 600 individuals in 2000 to around 300 today.

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(December 06, 2024)   -   Wildlife Conservation Society inspires university students to embrace GEO AI and other technologies in wildlife management and conservation, as part of their career path.

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(November 29, 2024)   -   These scaly anteaters are critically endangered and at a risk of being wiped out, if nothing is done in the next couple of years.

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(November 15, 2024)   -   Conservation moot court inspires student lawyers to become wildlife advocates and animal rights activists.

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(October 15, 2024)   -   Collaboration is central to achieving CWC outcomes, but experience shows that this is easier said than done. In practice, subtle competition and silo-centric tendencies of like-minded players create invisible barriers to effective ...

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(August 04, 2024)   -   Local Government Involvement in donor-supported programs is key to project sustainability.

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(May 08, 2024) On May 7, 2024, USAID/CWC Activity officially handed over the upgraded Online Wildlife Offenders Database (OWODAT) to Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) in a meeting officiated by the UWA Executive Director, Mr. Sam Mwandha, and attended by members of UWA’s senior management team. In handing over the system, Mr. Geofrey Mwedde, the USAID/Uganda CWC Activity Chief of Party appealed to UWA to train more data entrants and widen data entry at UWA field sites. He requested UWA management to int...

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(April 22, 2024)   -   Colonised beehive fences are effective in preventing elephants from crossing to community spaces, crop raids and other destruction which results in retaliatory elephant killing!

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(September 21, 2023)   -   With the support of USAID/Uganda Combating Wildlife Crime (CWC) Activity implemented by Wildlife Conservation Society and the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) in collaboration with the Uganda Bankers Association (UBA).

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