Wild Animal Lovers Uganda (WALU)

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Wild Animal Lovers Uganda (WALU), is a wildlife conservation education initiative founded by a professional and passionate Ugandan conservationist, Richard Kaahwa who has worked different conservation organizations in Uganda and Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge in United States. It’s a nonprofit organization collaborating with other conservation organizations to create people’s behavioral changes that will have a positive impact on wildlife and wild places.
WALU is based in Uganda, targeted to close the gap between the young generation and conservation in Uganda and globally, through formal and informal conservation education activities, and by collaborating with other conservation organization.

Our Mission
Influence the young generation’s attitudes, emotions, knowledge and behaviors, to positively impact wildlife and environmental conservation in Uganda and around the globe.

Vision statement:
Connecting people with nature to see a world where conservation and citizenship are viewed as inseparable, and where a global responsibility to nature is recognized to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources is safeguarded through knowledge.

Programs
• Day Camps: Quality educational activities like learning to create habitats for wildlife in their backyards, hometowns or villages, Replica animal scavenger hunting and identification.
• Outreach Programs: Visiting schools to teach and educate students about animals, conservation efforts, and stories relating to nature. During this program, screens or projectors are used to play videos of nature and later have a chance to go out to the school backyards with students and relate the videos with what is seen in the environments around the school backyard.
• Wildlife art Camp: Allow students to develop their talents relating to nature.
• Field Trip: Unforgettable day filled activities designed to encourage hands on educational experiences like wildlife species identification and counting.
• Youth workshops, volunteer opportunities, internship opportunities and research: Through collaboration with other conservation organizations.
• Community Integration: Best memorable and enjoyable Uganda community interaction and learning/support experiences. Tours include student trips, gorilla safaris, wildlife safaris, chimpanzee trekking safaris, recreation outdoor activities and birding watching tours among others. Nature activities, mountain climbing adventures, and flying safaris.

Richard Kaahwa is the Founder and Director of Wild Animal Lovers Uganda (WALU).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.