Queen Elizabeth National park

Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) is in the Western Region of Uganda, traversing the locale of Kasese, Kamwenge, Rubirizi, and Rukungiri. The recreation area is roughly 400 kilometers (250 mi) by street south-west of Kampala, Uganda's capital and biggest city. The city of Kasese misleads the upper east of the recreation area, while the town of Rubirizi is toward the southeast. The recreation area abuts Kyambura Game Reserve toward the east, which itself appends the Kigezi Game Reserve (counting the Maramagambo Forest) and accordingly the Kibale National Park toward the upper east. The Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lies across the boundary toward the west. Together, these safeguarded puts totally encompass Lake Edward. The Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda lies not far toward the northwest.

Confusingly, during the 1970s and 1980s, Western traditionalists normally alluded to the recreation area as Rwenzori National Park.

In 1921, a rinderpest scourge and dozing disorder among the native occupants of the locale, the pastoralist Basongora, caused extraordinary demise and displacement from the district. The pestilence was accepted to be brought about by the pilgrim government assuming some pretense of an animals inoculation crusade. The game expanded, and the British pioneer government chose to expel the leftover individuals from maybe 90% of their territories to make game stores. Their homes were burnt and their domesticated animals butchered, making them escape across the boundary and look for asylum in what is currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The recreation area was established in 1952 as Kazinga National Park by joining the Lake George and Lake Edward Game Reserves. It was renamed two years after the fact to recognize a visit by Queen Elizabeth II, and the final common brushing freedoms of the Songora herders were revoked, making thousands more get across the line with their crowds into the Virunga National Park, generally simply starting to return after 1964 because of the difficulty brought about by the Mulele disobedience there.

In 2006 the Basongora had to escape across the line from the DRC, getting comfortable the recreation area toward the north of Lake Edward with their domesticated animals. Assaults by hunters on their property, and absence of pay when their creatures are killed, made them leave out remains bound with poison out to tackle the issue, killing off eleven lions in 2018, among various occurrences. This prompted those in the global the travel industry and protection industry to allude to the circumstance as "public fiasco". Beforehand, poachers killed six elephants in the recreation area in 2015, setting off both resentment and dissatisfaction inside the Ugandan protection local area.