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.
ʻO nā maka e hui pū ana me kahi gorilla mauna mauna ma waena o kahi ululāʻau, ma hope o ka piʻi paʻakikī ma waena o Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, waiho i nā manaʻo mau loa o ka safari holoholona maikaʻi loa ma ka honua.
Akā he nui hou aku i Uganda.
Rich i loko o ke kūlohelohe, kahi laʻa kūwaho ia o nā loko pele, nā kahakai kahakai keʻokeʻo ma nā mokupuni moana, nā wailele hekili a me nā pāka aupuni. ʻO kahi hiʻohiʻona kiʻekiʻe ʻo Ngamba Island Chimp Sanctuary, kahi e hoʻopakele ai a ola nā chimpanzees makua ʻole i ko lākou mau lā ma kahi mokupuni ma Lake Victoria. Hiki i nā malihini kipa ke hele i ke kaulike ma ka moku ma laila, e ʻoki ana ma loko o ka loko nui o ʻApelika.
He aha hou? Ke hāpai nei ka huakaʻi mākaʻikaʻi a ka Pope i Uganda 2040, ke makemake ia e lilo i lāhui waena waena. ʻO nā hoʻomaikaʻi pilikino kahi ʻāpana o ka hoʻolālā.
"ʻOiai ʻo ka lehulehu i ka Serengeti a i ʻole Masaai Mara, e ʻike ʻoe i kahi ʻāina lush me ka hapa liʻiliʻi o nā mākaʻikaʻi ma Uganda," wahi a Thornton o Intrepid Travel. "ʻO ka gorillas mauna ka mea hoihoi nui akā hāʻawi ka ʻāina i nā hana he nui."
Ma kahi mamao aku o ka nahelehele, hiki iā ʻoe ke leʻaleʻa i ka ola ola o Kampala - ke kūlanakauhale hoʻokipa o ʻApelika Hikina e hiamoe ʻole ana. Ke hele nei i ka Hikina, hiki iā ʻoe ke huakaʻi i ʻO Jinja, ke kapikala nui o ʻApelika Hikina kahi a ka Nile e hoʻomaka ai i kāna huakaʻi i ʻAigupita a me ke Kaiwaenahonua. ʻO ka lehu o Gandhi, ke alakaʻi nui o India, ua kāpīpī ʻia i ke kumu o ka Nile ma Jinja kahi i hoʻomaka ai kā lākou huakaʻi i ke koena o ka honua.
Ma hea ʻoe e hele ai i Uganda, ʻoluʻolu ʻoe e leʻaleʻa i ka poʻe ʻoi loa - me 56 mau ʻōlelo a me nā ʻano ʻōlelo, e laʻana ʻoe e like me nā moʻomeheu, nā meaʻai, nā nohona nohona - hoʻopili ʻia e ka minoʻaka a me ka pumehana e wehewehe ai i ka poʻe o Uganda. He lāhui ia e hōʻuluʻulu i nā lāhui āpau a ʻo ia nō paha ke kumu i hoʻouna ʻia ai ka lehu o Mahatma Ghandi i ka honua mai aneʻi ma ke kumu o ka Nile.
Hoʻoiho i kahi hopena App Uganda ma aneʻi.
