Uganda Wildlife authority to prevent Human-wildlife conflict

The government of Uganda has planned to build a fence around all the national parks to prevent more human-wildlife conflicts.

The Uganda Wildlife Authority said the approach had aims to protect the villages near the parks from animals that have escaped from the park, to protect the angry locals from killing the animals and to protect the wildlife from poaching. The animals from the park destroy peoples crops mostly the elephants and animals like the lion eat their livestock.

During the opening of a new track in Murchison Falls national park, the Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage Mr. Ephraim Kamuntu said trenches have been dug to prevent the animals from crossing to the gardens to destroy crops and attacking them. The available money can’t be enough to fence off all the national parks so Murchison Park will be fenced first because it is where a number of damages have taken place.

The system of fencing off national parks in East Africa started in Kenya where Aberdare National Park was fenced off by a private enterprise. Kenya Wildlife Services held $12m to fence off Mt.Kenya National Park in 2011.