With funding from the McArthur Foundation, UWA in November 2009 sent a team of six staff on a 6-day study tour to Canada to learn about the country’s oil sector and pick lessons on how to ensure the co-existence of wildlife conservation and oil exploration within Uganda’s protected areas.

UWA has a big stake in the ongoing oil exploration activities in the country given that most of them are taking place within the protected areas. UWA has the responsibility of ensuring that the oil activities have minimal or no impacts on wildlife conservation and that tourism activity in the parks continue to take place with no interference.

It is therefore essential that the UWA staff concerned with implementing planning and conservation activities get adequate experience on how to manage the issues relating to the interface between nature conservation and oil exploration and production. bwindi gorilla tour

The study tour was aimed at helping the staff to learn best practices in waste management, flaring, piping, drilling operations, extraction technologies for oil and gas, reclamation and restoration of sites.

This was a right I the right direction and if used well it mighty be of great advantage in safe guarding our tourism resources.
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