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ONYX  SAFARI  CAR HIRE SERVICES IN UGANDA

Renting a car in Uganda Is very easy, Onyx Safari and tour can help you reserve one. For a better Sightseeing in Uganda is perfectly done well by using a rental car; they are spacious and have an open roof that will enable catch a good glimpse of the park view. These rental cars in Uganda are really affordable and will give a good experience of your safari.

Onyx Safari has a range of  Transport Options: Buses are available to take you to any part of the Country. Car hire services are also available to take you on any tour in Uganda.

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Onyx Safaris has a variety of car, cars that we have are Mercedes Benzes,  BMW,  Toyota Premos, Toyota Corona,  Land Cruisers which seats 5-7 people, Minibuses 6-10 people, Toyota Supper custom 7 people , Costa Buses 25 to 30. and so many other depending on your choice of car . All cars are 4×4

We also offer services like

Self drive Hire

Limites mileage

Unlimited Mileage

Chaufferur Driver Hire Vehicles

Air Port Transfers

Ground Services foe Filming Crews and Media Consultants.

We have safari vehicles with roof hatches which will make your game viewing spectacular in that you may yarn to go for more and more drives because of the fun and excitement which will make provide you with chance to come up with the most excellent shots of during your expedition.

Each one of our vehicles is usually checked thoroughly, well maintained and are covered with full insurance. We caution you to prepare your personal medivac.

Those interested in self drive (only available with saloon cars), we have the provision of our 24 hours day and the unique unlimited mileage allowance

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Rwanda Development Board Tourism and Conservation, has finally begun working on the process of refunding lost property, all the damages caused and injuries that the people who are staying in communities close to the national parks suffered  some time back  when they were attacked  by the wildlife. Last week the Rwandan government set up a particular trust fund that the RDB will be using while working on these people but one must have genuine and confirmed claims to get the fund set aside for compensation and currently there are more than hundred people pending and are waiting for approval to decide on the amount of compensation.

17 of the victims come from the Parc de Volcanoes which is now having part of secured by a perimeter wall that is meter high to separate it from the people and farms near it, 34 victims are from the Nyungwe Forest National Park while, 306 are from Akagera National Park. This problem will be solved when the electric fence is completed. Rica Rwigamba who is the Head of the Tourism and Conservation Department at RDB said that the problem is really a big one which needs s to be addressed as soon as possible more so because Rwanda sees conservation in a holistic approach therefore communities and wildlife have got to live harmoniously alongside each other.  Hopefully this idea of creating the fund will lead to a profitable cooperation that RDB has been struggling to establish for a number of years now with communities close to the protected areas.

Existing laws and regulations also require that 5 percent of the gate revenues be given back to the communities every year, meanwhile the gorillas naming ceremony for this year will take and also Kwita Izina celebrations will be held on the 16th of June and are recent projects initiated by the RDB Tourism and Conservation intended to help be able to supply water to communities and sustain health, education as well as community centers s that all of them can benefit from RDB’s work rather than having a few of them.

Rwanda  is again facing the human-wildlife conflict is and unfortunately it is at a very high increase in some parts of the country and yet in some cases, common sense is required to alleviate the impacts of conserving  wildlife vis a vis defending human populations.

The ministry of Uganda tourism has increased the Tourism security; this is to make sure that the tourists and their property are safe because for the country to earn a lot from the sector, the tourists both foreign and local have to be protected.
The security department has to work closely with the Tourism sector to make sure their work is well done and the police should operate in the different tourist destinations throughout the country like the lodges, game parks, game reserves, cultural sites and others.
The ministry has recruited 120 police officers but more are expected to be recruited and they should make sure they prevent crimes before they happen.
In the year 2012 Uganda has been voted as one of the top tourist destination one should visit . The lonely planet London’s famous travel guide who has created a good image. The Uganda Wildlife Authority, the ministry of tourism and the stakeholders have to set up measures to support the sector if Uganda wants to earn more.
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The small red-billed birds are living things that wander around Africa’s plains and that move in a flock as huge as a swarm of bees, they are usually very many that they frightened the elephants despite their size.  While the birds made their stop over at a watering hole at the Satao Camp water hole in East Tsavo in Kenya, they scared a way the elephants due to the fact that they crowded around this pair of pachyderms.
These re d-billed birds are relatively small, harmless but very many enough to scare away elephants. Each of them can be about 10 grammes but the fact that they move in large numbers, they can break a branch once they land on it due to combined weight of them all. Antero Topp a 60 year old photographer was around the areas of Satao Camp water hole when they came to drink water, the same place where the elephants had gone to drink water as well.
Antero Topp said that these birds had been some where close feeding and they often gather in large numbers to and head to the water hole to take water and this time, they landed on a big tree and because they were very many, they broke one of the big branches of the tree.
No sooner had the red-billed arrives, the elephants had to back away when they came and some had to run away as far as 50metres from the water source fearing those tiny birds. Most probably, the elephants were scared of the numbers and the shape of the flocks as well as the strange whoosh noise they were making while flying.  These Red-billed queleas birds are the highest bird species in number around the globe and are estimated to be about 1.5 billion pairs out their in the wild.

In The Amboseli National Park, Elephants Gather as female deliver A huge herd of elephants took take a role of being body guards for a particular female while it gave birth to its young to protect her from lions and hyenas which were most like to attack it and cause harm to it and its young one.  This happened in the Amboseli National Park which is situated in Kenya at the beginning of this very month.
Wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio was the one who observed the strange behavior amongst these elephants while on his early morning drive and he was amazed by all that they were doing just to keep the female safe from predators.  They were all round the female, closed any little gap between them in an effort to prevent any carnivorous animal from seeing what was going on. A few minutes after the calf was born, it was hanging on to the tusk of its mother with its trunk as it tried to get on its feet for the very first time.
A raiding hyena had to find it way away from the herd after the elephants stamped and throw dust into the air to scare it way. They pulled out grass and soil throwing it all over the area something that Paolo Torchio thinks is done just to cover the smell of the blood as well as the placenta and therefore prevent the predators like hyenas and lions from attacking; he also added that this was atypical firm flock. They set up a very tough wall using muscles and tusks which could definitely scare any other animal. They usually do this especially during an attack from predators like lions and while there is a female that is giving birth after a period of 22 months and therefore needs protection from its fellows.
The Amboseli National Park is about 3,100 square miles covering parts of Kenya at the boarder of Kenya-Tanzania and it is very well known for being the greatest place in Africa where you can find free-ranging elephants. Paolo also said that this was amazing to him because it very rare to get a chance to see an elephant give birth in the wild since it is so hard to know the real time when it will give birth.
This was a nick  experience  to see the kind of unity that the elephant have amongst themselves and willingness to protect one another as animals of the same family.

Lions chase Rukungiri residents from homes

In Rukungiri district a village called Bwambala, residents have accused their leaders of neglecting them as wild animals ravage the area driving them out of their homes and eating their animals.The latest incident involved a group of lions that invaded Kakoni village in Bwambara and devoured 18 goats forcing the residents to take refuge at the sub county headquaters. According to LC3 chairperson Dinah Rwakacaka

Rwakacaka said that they were first attacked by a herd of elephants from the Queen Elizabeth National Park which were reportedly fleeing bush fires which burnt down half of the park but on Saturday two lions emerged out of the park and killed the domestic animals.

She said that pleas to Uganda Wildlife Authority officials to protect the people from marauding animals have been fruitless because no response has ever been given.”Whenever the animals stray out of the park we inform UWA, but this time when we informed them they did not respond,” Rwakacaka said.

However an official from UWA Echodu Edyau who is the in charge of Ishasha Sector, last week said blamed the fires on the local people who stat it so that the animals can flee to their areas outside the park and they also get an axcuse to kill them.

“The fires were started deliberately by people who want the animals to get near to them so that they can kill them,” Echodu said.

The residents interwied by this reporter however denied starting the fire saying that every dry season the park management starts the fire themselves.

The LC3 Chairpperson said that people living along the park boundary have been sensitised and they know the value of the park animals and they is no way they can plot to harm them.

“These people know the value of the animals and that is why they run away otherwise they would have killed them,” She said.

However, Echodu said that they have since instituted a team to drive away animals when ever they stray in non protected area in order to minimise the damage they may cause especially the elephants.

The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni not so long ago officially opened his Presidential program for Sustainable Tourism (PRESTO) in the capital of England London in an effort to draw a larger number of tourists to Uganda than they currently are. At the ceremony, there were a number of tour operators, numerous prospective investors, so many business people, with Ugandans and people from other countries in African in the Diaspora. The presentation was intended to reveal Uganda’s tourism potentials by using posters and pictures of different wildlife, flora and fauna plus the cultural tradition especially the rich Karamanjong culture. During the exhibition, Ugandan coffee and tea was served to the guests at Central hall Westminster. The PRESTO launch comes after the Brussels Expo Holiday Fair in Belgium at the beginning of this month in which Uganda apart.
The minister of Tourism ,Wildlife and Heriatge  Prof Ephraim Kamuntu together with his Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Patrick Mugoya also attended the PRESTO’s official opening. The president  added that the tourism sector is very important sector in the economy of Uganda given the fact it is a source of employment of  number of people in and at the same time a large sum of foreign exchange.
Yeweri Museveni precisely had to launch his program from London because UK is the major source of tourists that come to Uganda while in 2011 Uganda was honored and identified as the best Tourism Destination for this year 2012and was selected by the Lonely Planet. He added that Mountain Ruwenzori national park is one of the best hiking places in the whole of Africa and in the world at large; Virunga Volcanoes is one place that one visits in this year and other 20 selected places that one has got not to miss out. Meanwhile the Bwindi Impenetrable forest which popular because of the existing mountain gorillas selected as best birding place in Africa.
Murchison Falls National Park was among the best 10 birding places in Africa while the popular tree-climbing lions in Ishasha in Queen Elizabeth national park were selected as the photos of the month in the National Geographic magazine.

The death of Max the white rhino

It was a sadden to Prince William after receiving the news that his friend’s rhino which was slaughtered by poachers just to get it horn which horns are on high demand especially in Asian countries. Max, the white rhinoceros was shot 17 times and later had it horn chopped off in Kenya. In spite of the fact that the rangers had most of its horn as a way of protecting it from these illegal hunters, it was still killed for just a small piece of its horn that was still remaining on its head.
Max was an element in the documentary called the Last Chance To See ad had been looked after by Ian Craig who is the father of Prince William’s former girlfriend Jecca. According to the information that was got, Mr. Craig is the owner of the Lewa wildlife reserve in Kenya although at the time the rhino had been transferred to the Ol Pejeta sanctuary because he had aged and could not look after it very well and it was at Ol Pejeta sanctuary that it was killed from. In 2001 prince Williams spent six weeks volunteering at Mr. Craig’s conservation project and while there he often met Max on his trips to Africa.
Prince William , after seeing and appreciating the work done by Mr. Craig with rhinos, he later became a patron of the Tusk Trust and organization responsible for protecting animals. at the same time, A St James‘s Palace spokesman also mentioned that the Prince was horrified to learn about the death of Max which is why he still encourages all the responsible bodies to protect and conserve rhinos and elephants and has also asked Tusk Trust to inform him of the latest news from Africa.
Poachers constantly slaughter rhinos only to sell In Asia, a kilo of rhino horns cost £40, 00 . where they believe that they can obtain medicine from a rhino horn especially cancer medicine. However Charlie Mayhew, a co-founder of the Tusk Trust, mentioned that the death of Max is an example of what is happening else where in many African countries due to a high demands for the horns more in China and Vietnam.
The Prince is very much interested in seeing the number of rhinos and elephants increasing and having illegal hunting stamped out and this is something he just loves doing and help see up to it that the progression of illegal trade is stopped. Mr. Mayhew also added that this vice of rhino-poaching is at the moment pan-African and said that Zimbabwe lost six rhinos in just one year and that was something he got know while at one of the reserve in Zimbabwe. Just last year in South Africa, there was a rhino being killed in every 20 hrs on average by poachers and this year, South Africa has so far lost 70 and more rhinos to poachers. This therefore demands that the conservations come up with tough measures to curb down the vice in Africa.

As part of  Uganda Wildlife Authority  rescue program, USAID STAR through USFS International Program is offering  mountain hiking  rescue equipment to Uganda Wildlife Authority . UWA will offer this equipment to Rwenzori Mountaineering Services (RMS), a nongovernmental organization entrusted with a concession to provide  trekking safaris in Uganda especially to  the central circuit trail of the  Rwenzori Mountains.

The mountain Rescue  equipment will be used to help support and integrate the Rwenzori Former Hunters in mountain rescue activities thus  encouraging and promoting  community participation in Uganda wildlife conservation initiatives.

Uganda Wildlife Authority is in charge of  resource conservation  in the county’s   protected areas also make these resources available for to visitors utilize.

Mountain  Rwenzori is among  the great World Heritage Site UNESCO, with beautiful scenery where birders go for bird watching safaris guides forest walks and mountain hiking safaris in Uganda.  It’s the only mountain  in the world where one can  find snow and  ice  at the equator which is such a beautiful and exhilarating holidays  experience of a life time.

Through the US Forest Service International Program (USFS), USAID-STAR donated  technical assistance to Uganda Wildlife Authority  to rehabilitate the walking  trails and recreational facilities in the national parks, Mgahinga gorilla tracking safari park , Queen  Elizabeth Wildlife and game viewing safari , and Rwenzori Mountains of the Moon .

There is also need to provide quality and excellent training opportunities for sustainable trail techniques that include both simple solutions such as constructing switch-back turns to eliminate overly steep, eroding sections, to more complex solutions such as improved bridge and trail designs.

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A new tourist attraction center has been set up in Tanzania at SAANANE Island. It is basically for people who love to explore in the Island, going for boat excursions can only be organized at the clients request at the National Park’s offices which are found in the Capri Point in Nyamagana district. The Island named after  its former owner Mzee Saanane Chawandi. and it was the very first zoo that Tanzania ever had in the year of 1964 being established with an aim of encouraging the demand and the preservation education in wildlife as well as encourages recreation among the people of Mwanza town.
There are so many activities on the Saanane Island. It is confirmed that while on this Safari you will be sure to enjoy activities like the rock hiking, picnics, game viewing as well as bird watching for the those who love birds since they are usually so many on the shore of Lake Victoria. According to the Tanzania National Parks Authority, years between 1964-1966 there so many wild animals of various species that were transferred to  the Island like the  buffalo, bushbuck, dik dik, elephant, eland, impala, black rhino, topi, warthog, and wildebeest. More to those were the zebra, monkeys, giraffe, porcupine and crocodiles but unfortunately the other wild animals like the rhinos were kept in cages. It is also very important to appreciate the work done by the Game Reserve in the 1991. And in 2011, the Tanzania government through the Ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources, declared its intent of upgrading the Island from being just a forest reserve and wildlife familiarization zone to a proper wildlife sanctuary.
The good intention of this is to add the number of National Parks from the 15 that are available to 16 at least by the 2013 and thus will become the second National Park to stride Lake Victoria following the Rubondo Island. Mr. Paschal Shelutete the TANAPA Public Relations Manager  mentioned that the National park in proposition will act as a home to so many mammals like impala, rock hyrax, velvet monkeys, wild cats, clawless otters and De-brazzas monkey. While that part with water will water will have creatures like all types of fish, crocodiles, water snakes and monitor lizards, other reptiles, including tortoises, grass snakes, pythons and agama lizards.  According to the Saanane Island Park Warden Ms Rukia Juma Mallya, this park will act as an example to the other game parks especially since the island receives about 250 visitors every month on average and between the 180 and 200 local visitors.

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