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Program Areas

The Uganda Wildlife Society (UWS) is a membership, non governmental

organization on a mission to promote the conservation of wildlife and environment

in Uganda.

In an effort to fulfill our mission and objectives, UWS engages the following four

Policy research equips the Society with the capacity to develop learned positions

that will positively impact natural resource policy and legislation in Uganda and is,

therefore, the precursor to its advocacy, education and awareness activities. The

Society has a national focus within a regional perspective and works in partnership

with local communities, government, and international, regional, private agencies

and academic institutions in its environmental research, advocacy and awareness

Policy research at the Society is aimed at contributing to the improvement of

environmental governance by ensuring that government, public and private

institutions remain accountable to the public for environmental conservation and

The Society employs a range of advocacy, education and awareness tools as it

targets its members, key decision-makers, environmental policymaking processes

and the general public. These tools include research reports, policy briefs, and

policy dialogues, public debates, engaging Members of Parliament in various fora,

media campaigns, an environmental hotline, and petitions. As a result, the Society,

working in partnership with others, has been able to encourage institutional reforms

and impact a number of natural resource policies and legislation in Uganda. The

Society also conducts monthly debates at the National museum on environment and

Wildlife populations in protected areas continue to recover following instability in

Uganda in the 1970s and 1980s. However, with human population growth

exceeding 3% annually, Uganda has one of the fastest population growth rates in

the world. This has increased pressures on Uganda’s wildlife and its habitat inside

and outside protected areas. Between 1990 and 2005, Uganda lost 26.3 percent of

its remaining forest cover, and deforestation continues today at a rate of 2.2 percent

per year, mostly due to subsistence farming, cutting for fuelwood, and colonization

by the burgeoning population. On the other hand, wetlands, which cover a total of

13% of Uganda’s land area, face similar challenges which among others include

drainage of Wetland, introduction of new crops like rice, pollution, over-harvesting,

reclamation for industrial developments, human settlements in swampy areas. The

Society, through its advocacy and education and awareness activities carries out

The Society develops, implements and supports field-based conservation projects.

These projects are aimed at involving local communities in the management and

conservation of vital ecosystems. These projects are also geared towards improving

the community livelihoods through non-consumptive use of natural resources,

particularly via eco-tourism. The Ziika Forest Management Project and Nyundo

Community Project are two such projects being carried out by the Society.