BirdLife International partner – Nature Uganda

Nature Uganda (NU) is one of the oldest conservation NGOs in East Africa, tracing its origins to the East Africa Natural History Society, founded in 1909. Its activities include public awareness and education, biodiversity research and monitoring, and promoting the conservation of priority species, sites and habitats. Nature Uganda is the BirdLife International partner in Uganda and a member of IUCN. 

The African-Eurasian Flyway stretches from the Arctic to southern Africa and is one of four major global migration routes for birds. Often described as ‘avian superhighways’, these pathways are traversed by billions of birds each year, including species like Egyptian Vulture, Steppe Eagle, and Sociable Lapwing. But key sites along the flyway are under threat from habitat loss, illegal hunting, and climate change. Losing these places would have serious consequences for the birds that rely on them to rest, refuel, and breed.  

ERF’s support of Nature Uganda is part of their £7.5 million grant to BirdLife International’s African-Eurasian Flyway grant which supports habitat restoration and protection work in Romania, Bulgaria, Iraq, Jordan, Uganda, Malawi and Zimbabwe, alongside efforts to grow nature-based economies and jobs. It will also strengthen rapid-response action against harmful developments and help operationalise the ground-breaking collaboration between BirdLife and the World Bank.