Database of Wildlife Related Law
The Anti-Poaching Unit received information from their informer that there is a business if elephants tusk about to happen in Arusha-Njiro area. Posing as buyers, the Unit contacted the seller about the possibility of buying the tusks. The sellers fell into a trap and showed the unit the tusks.
The appellant was appealing against the decision of the High Court which ruled that the offence which the respondents were charged with was not an economic crime to be tried before the High Court and thus ordered that the matter to be remitted back to the trial court for necessary amendments of the charge and proceed with trial accordingly.
The appellant was convicted by the District Court of Monduli at Monduli in absentia for unlawful possession of government trophy. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for twenty (20) years.
On the 1st day of August 2021 rangers of Queen Elizabeth Conservation area attached to Katoru police post while on their patrol in the area of Katoru within Queen Elizabeth arrested the accused who entered the park illegally and they had two pangas and brought to Kasese police station and later appeared in court.
The arresting officer got information that there were people having hippo teeth in Katunguru trading centre and looking for a buyer.
The accuse person was on the 13th day of September 2020 found in the areas of Kahendero in Queen Elizabeth National Park a place he entered illegally. He was arrested and taken to Muhokya police station and charged accordingly.
The rangers attached to Queen Elizabeth Conservation area got information that the accused person had killed a buffalo in the park. A search was conducted at his home by the said officers who recovered meat suspected to belong to wild animals, snares and a panga.
On the 19th day of October 2020, the Uganda Wildlife Authority security operators were on patrol, in the areas of Queen Elizabeth National Park who came across the accused person and other people who took off. They managed to arrest only the accused with three fishing baskets, a panga and immature fish.
According to a ranger attached to Uganda Wildlife Authority, he arrested the accused person in a wildlife conservation area, photographed him with an axe and other exhibits.
The accused person on the 18th day of June 2019, illegally entered Queen Elizabeth National Park at Katunguru. He was found in possession of a dead hippopotamus and devices capable of killing that is a spear and panga.
