Members of Parliament on the Trade, Tourism and Industry Committee have shown a need to amend the Wildlife Act, to mitigate against rising cases of Human-Wildlife Conflict.
This comes on the heels of concerns communities surrounding Queen Elizabeth National Park and Lake Mburo National Park have had, where residents have been affected by wildlife attacks and no compensation has been given.
Robert Tumwine who had father was killed by a buffalo says that he has been going Mabarara Police Station to follow up the matter where Uganda Wild Life Authority promised them 23 Million Shilling for the lose of their father but since then they have not received any response from them.
Accordding to Sylvia Nayebare the chairperson Trade Committee says that the people are given forms to fill in and most of them are in English and they do fill them in but the response takes long to come.
She also adds that they have faced many challenges and they’re sure that as the committee they will sit down with UWA officials and ED plus the entire team to try and see how they can help the communities.
David Aga Isabirye the Jinja North Divison MP urges the government to allocate money to build more roads in the game reserves and also allocate more money to face the national parks.
Pontius Ezuma the chief warden at Queen Elizabeth National Park says there is a big issue of compensating people which is actually big factor itself.
Uganda WildLife Authority says since 2019, they have spent about 1.138B compensating 369 people with an addition of 1.043B all to 221 people still waiting for compensation. The Wild Life Act provides that UWA sets aside of its annual Revenue to compensate victims of wildlife attacks.