UPDF

Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces

Provides security support to joint enforcement operations, particularly in protected areas, border regions and high-risk operations against armed poaching group...

Mandate: Provides security support to joint enforcement operations, particularly in protected areas, border regions and high-risk operations against armed poaching groups.
Focal persons: 1
Website: https://www.defence.go.ug

On the ground

Related operations

Pangolin Trafficking

Pangolin Scales and Twelve Guns Recovered in Oyam and Nwoya

Joint operations in Oyam and Nwoya districts recovered pangolin scales together with twelve firearms used by poaching networks operating around the Murchison Falls landscape.

OutcomeSuspects arrested and charged; the recovered firearms were taken out of circulation, disrupting armed poaching around Murchison Falls.

Jun 2020