POACHERS GIVE IN TO UWA
A total of 201 poachers in Kamdini parish, Apac district recently capitulated
to the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and promised by no means to hunt animals in the Murchison Falls national Park again.
Senior warder Stonewall Kato said the poachers handed in spears, wire, traps, snares. cooking pots and animal trophies.
Kato said that UWA has promised to finance option projects for them which they will identify so as to recover their household income.
He added that the projects would include goat rearing and building schools for the communities.