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Caring moment - Mother rhino and calf at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary Courtesy: Angie Genade Executive Director Rhino Fund Uganda

‘Zurprised’ at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

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Above: Caring moment – Mother rhino and calf at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
Courtesy: Angie Genade, Executive Director Rhino Fund Uganda

Published Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper August 26. 2017

and chancing upon the rare Shoebill stork

Rare bird of the swamps - the shoebill stork on community land near Ziwa Rhino sanctuary Copyright: Rupi Mangat
Rare bird of the swamps – the shoebill stork on community land near Ziwa Rhino sanctuary Copyright: Rupi Mangat

In 2001, on a visit to Uganda – the land that Winston Churchill in 1907 coined ‘the Pearl of Africa’ – l saw a Shoebill stork that is now a rare bird of the wetlands mostly found in Uganda at Entebbe zoo. Being so rare, l thought l would never see it in the wild.

Mum and Babe southern white rhino at Ziwa Courtesy - Angie Genade, Executive Director Rhino Fund Uganda
Mum and Babe southern white rhino at Ziwa Courtesy – Angie Genade, Executive Director Rhino Fund Uganda

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