Category: Wildlife

Uganda is home to approximately 5,000 common, or eastern, chimpanzees.

The king of cats, the majestic and magnificent lion (Panthera leo) is, tragically, a critically endangered species.

There are only about 400,000 African buffaloes in the whole of Africa, plummeting from 900,000 in 1999.

There are five species of baboons and they all live in Africa – olive, yellow, chacma, Guinea and sacred.

Pangolins are truly unique animals, and rank among the likes of the duck-billed platypus for their peculiar appearance.

Jackals are social and co-operative, and with their family brave, loyal and kind.

The banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) is a highly social, small weasel-like carnivorous mammal found across Africa

The African bush elephant is found more widely across Uganda, but mainly in Kidepo, Murchison Falls, Semuliki, and the Greater Virunga Landscape.

There are an estimated 27,000 to 47,000 hyenas in the wild and these numbers are steadily decreasing.