Conservationists had been working tirelessly to reverse some of the damage that has been caused to the animal kingdom due to climate change.

In recent years Uganda's wealth of diverse wildlife has been centered to attract more tourism to the country. This comes after its bio-diversity was hit hard by its political instability that rocked the country in the 1970s and 1980s. That led to some species becoming extinct. 

But now conservation efforts, increase security, and tough wildlife laws have resulted in good news for the animals with numbers of large mammals including rhinos, giraffes, and elephants on the rise.
2022 also saw a rise in the human-animal conflict in Uganda as an increased herd of elephants put pressure on the land needed by the growing human population for crops. 

Meanwhile, Australia was ravished by wildfires so in Sydney they started a program to help the animals caught up in these events by way of a training program. The course was created because most veterinary professionals are only trained to look after domesticated pets such as cats and dogs. But not taught how to properly rescue and rehabilitate wildlife. 
The program hoped by training as many professionals as possible more wildlife will be saved especially in times of crises like massive wildfires. 


mountain bongo
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 In Kenya, developers have called on citizen scientists to help log wildlife on a new app launched by the National Museums of Kenya the app aims to help the country's wildlife authorities track and log both rare and common mammals and record whether the species and their habitat are thriving. 

Moreover Kenya's home to the mountain bongo, one of the most endangered species in the world according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Mawingu Mountain Bongo Sanctuary an 800-acre area of indigenous forest was launched in 2020 with the aim of re-wilding mountain bongos as in 2004 a total of 18 mountain bongos were brought back to Kenya from zoos in an attempt to re-wild them. They had to be trained on how to survive in the wild as they had been kept in captivity. And in 2022, 5 more were released to the Mawingu Mountain Bongo Sanctuary. They are now being monitored and left to roam freely in the wild.

So as the world's biodiversity suffers from global warming, conservationists are doing their best to protect these wild species.