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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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Zooming in to Murchison Falls from the boat Copyright Rupi Mangat

Epic Safari to Murchison Falls

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The falls raged – our faces wet with the spray of water. Not from any ordinary river but the great Nile. Here we were, my nephew and l standing on sheer rock, spell bound by the force of the falls.

Murchison Falls - from the top. The Bakers' chanced upon it in 1864 coming back from Lake Albert (again they were the first European explorers to see it). Their boat was raised out of the water by a hippo and they had to jump on shore! Copyright: Rupi Mangat
Murchison Falls – from the top. The Bakers’ chanced upon it in 1864 coming back from Lake Albert (again they were the first European explorers to see it). Their boat was raised out of the water by a hippo and they had to jump on shore! Copyright: Rupi Mangat
The Nile crocodile on the banks of the Nile near Murchison Falls - copyright Rupi Mangat
The Nile crocodile on the banks of the Nile near Murchison Falls – copyright Rupi Mangat

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