President Yoweri Museveni is to participate in an unprecedented gathering of African heads of state, global business leaders, and A-list celebrities, to plot a new African-led path to ending poaching on the continent.
The event, in Kenya on April 29 and 30, is the first of its kind. It is being convened by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta as part of his membership – with the presidents of Uganda, Gabon, and Botswana – of the Giants Club. The Giants Club is a select coalition of visionary African leaders enlisting the power of business and entertainment superstars to accelerate progress towards saving the African elephant from extinction.
The Summit takes place immediately before President Kenyatta destroys his country’s 120-tonne stockpile of seized ivory (afternoon of April 30).
In July 2015, President Museveni hosted Mr. Alexandar Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev during their maiden trip to Uganda. The Lebedevs were in Uganda on a familiarization trip hosted by the Uganda Tourism Board and its partners.
Evgeny Lebedev, a passionate conservationist, philanthropist and patron of the Space for Giants club says that there is an urgent need conserve Africa’s most iconic species, which face extinction.
“My hope is that, together with corporate donors and other leaders across the continent, we can make an immediate impact, and so improve the prospects for some of the most beautiful landscapes, and animals, on earth. Time is short – but this summit is exactly the right way to address this critical situation, and I am hopeful for its outcome,” says Evgeny Lebedev.
President Museveni has been at the forefront of conservation, and has seen Uganda’s elephant population growing from a few thousand to over 6,000. Museveni was the first East African leader to endorse the Giants Club initiative in Kampala in July 2015. Uganda’s elephant population growth, though small in comparison to others, is a global success story where other nations are struggling with falling numbers.
Susret sa srebrnom planinskom gorilom kroz maglovitu džunglu, nakon napornog pješačenja kroz neprohodnu šumu Bwindi, ostavlja vječne utiske vjerojatno najboljeg safarija za divlje životinje na svijetu.
Ali ima mnogo više od Ugande.
Bogata prirodom, to je otvoreno utočište kraterskih jezera, bijelih pješčanih plaža na jezerskim ostrvima, gromoglasnih vodopada i nacionalnih parkova. Najvažnija stvar je utočište za šimpanze na ostrvu Ngamba, gde spašene šimpanze i siročad provode dane na ostrvu u jezeru Viktorija. Posjetioci tamo mogu preći ekvator čamcem, presijecajući najveće afričko jezero.
Šta je novo? Papina značajna posjeta podstiče planove za Ugandi 2040., kada ona želi postati nacija sa srednjim prihodima. Poboljšanja infrastrukture su dio plana.
„Dok je gužva u Serengetiju ili Masaai Mara, u Ugandi ćete pronaći bujnu zemlju sa manje turista“, kaže Thornton iz Intrepid Travela. “Planinski gorile su glavna atrakcija, ali selo nudi mnoge aktivnosti.”
Daleko od divljine, možete uživati živahan život Kampale – grad zabave istočne Afrike koji nikad ne spava. Ako idete na istok, možete putovati Jinja, prestonica avanture istočne Afrike gdje Nil počinje svoje putovanje do Egipta i Sredozemnog mora. Pepeo Gandija, velikog vođe Indije, posut je na izvoru Nila u Jinji gdje su i oni započeli svoje putovanje u ostatak svijeta.
Gdje god da odete u Ugandi, sigurno ćete uživati u najboljem od ljudi – sa 56 jezika i dijalekata, probat ćete što više kultura, hrane, stilova života – a sve to povezuje osmijeh i toplina koja definira ljude u Ugandi. To je nacija koja okuplja sve narode i vjerovatno je zato pepeo Mahatme Ghandija poslat u svijet odavde na izvoru Nila.
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