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The Muzungu’s Best of 2011!
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 1 January 2012
If 2011 was busy, 2012 looks set to be busier still! Here are a few of 2011′s highlights (if you don’t hate me by now …) TRAVELLING – Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Turkey – and of course, Uganda. Kenya - The Naivasha Relay (84km from Nairobi to Lake Naivasha) is one of the highlights of Nairobi [...]
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Lessons in parenting from Mweya’s Mongooses!
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 27 November 2011
I often forget when we go out into the Bush how, even on short distances, a vehicle is necessary. And so, armed not with a gun or a machete, but a long radio antenna, we jumped into the back of a pickup truck and headed off the main track and into the scrubby bush. The [...]
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A close encounter with Lions!
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 13 October 2011
One of the incredible benefits of working with UCF, the Uganda Conservation Foundation, has been work trips to the Bush – and free game drives. Friends and family back home may be under the impression that’s all I’ve been doing for the last two and half years! Unfortunately, once I’d got the hang of the [...]
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R.I.P. Mary – elephant entertainer extraordinaire
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 12 April 2011
Tragic news from Queen Elizabeth National Park this week-end: Mary the orphan elephant has been found dead, believed to have been poisoned. This famous elephant was raised by Marcel Onen (who worked for Michael Keigwin, my boss and Founder of the Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF), for seven years. Michael writes “After years of Mary entertaining [...]
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How do you deal with an elephant in your garden?
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 20 July 2010
A big part of UCF's work focuses on "mitigating Human Wildlife Conflict (HWC)" - that is stopping humans and elephants from killing each other. Simply put, if we can protect the humans, we can protect the wildlife.It's a big problem - you try dealing with an elephant in your garden - and it's going to get worse.
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It's Hip to be a Hippo
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 27 June 2010
Look at me - I'm gorgeous! Ugandan men prefer a bit of meat on their ladies.
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A fiery start to an “amazing” trip
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 30 March 2010
The days starts far too early: and as we push through Kampala’s heavy early morning traffic we read that Kampala’s Kasubi Tombs, the main historical site of the Baganda tribe, has been raised to the ground. Speculation abounds and there’s a tendency to react first and ask questions later."Protesters killed at Uganda's Kasubi tombs"Pictures on the BBC
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Anti-poaching: the answer's in the gumboots!
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 14 March 2010
Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers will soon, for the first time ever, have a permanent base in the Dura sector, an area of 400km² north of Lake George in Queen Elizabeth National Park, thanks to the Uganda Conservation Foundation,
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Out of town ...Kampala riots far away
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 10 September 2009
Woke to the sound of birds (and possibly a baboon!) this morning, at the Uganda Wildlife Authority hostel on the Mweya peninsula in Queen Elizabeth National Park. A fantastically beautiful place tho the accom is very basic: only 1 tap works, the curtains don’t close and there are no hangers on the rail. But boy was the bed comfy!An 8 hr journey from Kampala – and I’d slept for 3 hours – but still slept like a log.
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Not forgetting why I'm really here ...
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 7 August 2009
There’s no point in pretending: I’m really behind with work and I’m not going to get it all done in the next hour it takes for Mike (UCF’s Founder) to drive from the airport.
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Off to the field
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 30 June 2009
Tuesday night is market night and the drums are playing loud on the other side of the compound wall, just a few metres away.
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Uganda in pictures UPDATED
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 23 March 2009
Finally, some photos ... !
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