The Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve is the oldest protected natural area in Uganda, having first been set aside in 1926. Once one of the best-stocked and most popular wildlife parks in East Africa – it suffered significant poaching during the civil war years and, after the war with Tanzania. Wildlife is recovering and you may encounter waterbuck, reedbucks, bushbuck, chimpanzees, pygmy hippo, buffaloes, leopard, elephants, and hyenas. A number of lions have also recently returned to the reserve, most likely refugees from the conflict in the DRC.
