Wildlife pictures celebrates Uganda’s pure heritage

The exhibition, developed by London’s Natural History Museum, featured award-winning nature pictures alongside photographs from Ugandan photographers. It captured Uganda’s mountain gorillas, shoebills and numerous ecosystems that underpin the nation’s £1.88 billion tourism economic system – a cornerstone of Uganda’s agro-industrialisation, tourism, minerals, and science and know-how (ATMS) technique. 

Uganda’s biodiversity represents each a world treasure and very important financial asset. Protecting nature helps Vision 2040 goals, creating jobs while constructing local weather resilience important for agricultural productiveness and water safety. 

The UK helps Uganda’s National Climate Finance Strategy via programmes spanning conservation, clear cooking, renewable power, and climate-smart agriculture. This consists of serving to set up the Climate Finance Unit within the Ministry of Finance and supporting ladies’s shea butter cooperatives in Northern Uganda – initiatives that reveal how nature safety drives financial improvement. 

The exhibition options contributions from Uganda Wildlife Authority, Uganda Tourism Board, Uganda Conservation Foundation, Conservation Through Public Health, Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Nkima Forest Lodge and Ugandan photographers. It displays shared dedication to conservation outcomes that profit communities nationwide. 

The Natural History Museum is a world-leading science establishment devoted to addressing the planetary emergency. Its exhibitions encourage thousands and thousands globally to worth and defend nature. 

Background info

About the Natural History Museum 

• the Natural History Museum, London, is a world-leading science establishment devoted to tackling the planetary emergency 

• Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the world’s largest nature pictures competitors with over 60,000 entries yearly 

• now in its 61st yr, the competitors celebrates extraordinary nature pictures 

• Uganda is one among solely 10 international areas internet hosting the 61st version of this exhibition 

UK assist for Uganda’s conservation and local weather objectives 

Conservation programmes 

• over 25 years of collaboration with Uganda Wildlife Authority defending crucial ecosystems 

• Darwin Initiative supporting neighborhood conservation in Rukiga district, constructing local weather resilience for 30,000 individuals while conserving Grey Crowned Cranes 

• anti-poaching initiatives lowering wildlife crime and defending endangered species 

Climate Finance 

• institution of the Climate Finance Unit in Uganda’s Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (March 2023) to mobilise and coordinate local weather finance to assist for Uganda’s National Climate Finance Strategy

• LIFE-AR Initiative (LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience) delivering on-ground investments together with boreholes in Kibaale district 

Climate-smart agriculture 

• £39 million Climate Smart Jobs Programme supporting smallholder farmers’ local weather resilience 

• assist for ladies’s shea butter cooperatives in Northern Uganda, defending shea bushes and lowering deforestation 

Clean power 

• assist for Uganda’s Clean Cooking Unit, launched October 2025, concentrating on 50% clear cooking transition by 2030 

• over twenty years of partnership in Uganda’s electrical energy sector for the reason that Nineteen Nineties reforms 

• GET FiT Uganda programme (2013) mobilising over $450 million funding in renewable power 

• British International Investment and Gridworks’ $90 million Amari Power Transmission challenge—Uganda’s first public-private partnership in transmission