DATE ESTABLISHED 1964  Previously a Controlled Hunting Area  1962. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION Western Uganda, adjoining Murchison Falls National Park to the north. Approximately r50’N, 3r45’E. Altitude 900m – 1,300m Area 675km2 (82,000ha); contiguous to Murchison Falls National Park 3877km2 (384,000ha) and Bugungu Wildlife Reserve 473km2 (52,000ha) PHYSICAL FEATURES This is an area of gentle relief crossed by several watercourses, south of the Victoria...Read More

DATE ESTABLISHED Established in 1962 as the White Rhino Sanctuary. Established as Ajai Game Reserve in 1965  GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION West bank of the Nile between Pakwach and Nimule, about 10km north of Inde and 32km east-south-east of Arua. 2°55’N, 3r25’E. Altitude 700-1,000m Area 148km2  (15,800ha) PHYSICAL FEATURES This area of rivers and riverine swamp borders the...Read More

DESCRIPTION AND MANAGEMENT HISTORY Katonga Wildlife Reserve with an area of 207 square kilometers was gazetted in 1964 as a game reserve, to serve as a corridor for migrating wildlife from Western Uganda to Tanzania and Sudan. It became a Wildlife Reserve in 1996 when the former Game Department and Uganda National Parks merged to...Read More

BACKGROUND     Toro Semliki Wildlife Reserve was established as a game reserve in 1926  and was among the first protected areas to be gazetted. The main reason was to protect the large numbers of Uganda Kobs in the area. It covers an area of 542 km2. It is located in western Uganda, within   Ntoroko and Kabarole...Read More

PARK AT A GLANCE Size: 220km² with an altitude of 670-760m above sea level Semuliki Forest Reserve was created in 1932 and upgraded to national park status in 1993. It is the only tract of true lowland tropical forest in East Africa, hosting 441 recorded bird species and 53 mammals. Large areas of this low-lying park may flood during...Read More

PARK AT A GLANCE Size: 1,978km². Queen Elizabeth spans the equator line; monuments on either side of the road mark the exact spot where it crosses latitude 00. The park was founded in 1952 as Kazinga National Park, and renamed two years later to commemorate a visit by Queen Elizabeth II. The park is home to over 95...Read More

PARK AT A GLANCE Size: 3,840km2 Murchison Falls became one of Uganda’s first national parks in 1952 At Murchison Falls, the Nile squeezes through an 8m wide gorge and plunges with a thunderous roar into the “Devil’s Cauldron”, creating a trademark rainbow The northern section of the park contains savanna and borassus palms, acacia trees and riverine woodland. The south...Read More

PARK AT A GLANCE Size: 1,121km² This extinct volcano is one of Uganda’s oldest physical features, first erupting around 24 million years ago. Mt Elgon was once Africa’s highest mountain, far exceeding Kilimanjaro’s current 5,895m. Millennia of erosion have reduced its height to 4,321m, relegating it to the 4th highest peak in East Africa and 8th on the continent....Read More

PARK AT A GLANCE Size: 33.7km2, making it Uganda’s smallest National Park. The park takes its name from “Gahinga” – the local word for the piles of volcanic stones cleared from farmland at the foot of the volcanoes. The British administration declared the area a game sanctuary in 1930; it was gazetted as a National Park in 1991....Read More

PARK AT A GLANCE Size: 370km2 Altitude: 1,220m – 1,828m above sea level Wetland habitats comprise 20% of the park’s surface The parks’ precarious past has seen wildlife virtually eliminated several times: firstly in various attempts to rid the region of tsetse flies, then to make way for ranches, and finally as a result of subsistence poaching. 20%...Read More