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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Herbert is the founder of Uganda Bird Guides Club, Uganda Women birders Club, Uganda Safari Guides Association, and is the Chairman of the Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skills Council of Uganda. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda. Shoebill at Mabamba Swamp.

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Uganda Benefits from Mountain Gorilla Survival

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Uganda is seeing a growth in tourism dollars from visits to see its mountain gorillas. The tourism revenue creates an incentive for Uganda to protect the endangered species at the same time that it contributes to human welfare. Tags: developing countries africa economic development ecotourism uganda gorillas.

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Best Opinion Ever on Humans and Nature

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He wants to save the planet for humans alone. Tags: nature climate change human behavior environment uganda. By the way, if you ever read Jared Diamond's Collapse, you'll understand why I also think this is the perfect response to his book. I believe we have not earned that privilege.

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Python Caves and the Very Dangerous Bats

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You’ll also remember that the caves are also one of the destinations I took my parents to when we toured Uganda. The latter species is now nearly an Albertine endemic, as the region of western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DR Congo is an area high in interesting endemics. Birding Trips diseases Ebola fruit bats Uganda'

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.

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Birding Tiaozini again – sponsored by the local government …

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While Mike and Corey – fitting for being real celebrities in birding cycles – get invited to far-flung places such as Uganda, minor local birders sometimes at least get invited to places nearby. I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too.

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The Storks of Africa

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If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal.

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