1994 Rubondo Island (2/14): Setting off to look for poachers

... continued from previous slide: One morning, I guess it was in my 2nd month on the Island, I was invited to join the rangers on what the said to be a "special tour". My Swahili was more or less non-existent and their English wasn't better either. Hence, communicating was difficult. Hence, I did not really know what we were going to do.

But I certainly realized, it must be important as they usually had not fuel available for the boats (which was one of the reasons, why I could not go to the mainland to stock up food but lost some 15kg of body weight during my time on the island - but this is another story).

I was told that fishing in a certain zone around the Island was prohibited and considered "poaching" (as well as hunting on the island of course). None the less, with Lake Victoria suffering from a rapidly declining fish population (also as a result of introducing the Nile Perch which destabilized the existing fish population, read more here ) and hence, fishermen of the surrounding villages not having enough food, poaching around the Island was observed very frequently.

Often, local fishermen sailed to the island for fishing and in order to avoid discovery hided their boat and themselves in the forest on shore of the island.

A couple of days before we set of four our trip, the rangers discovered one such boat, seized it and expected the poachers to escape on a raft. This was, how I ended up on this boat.

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Taken on: July 15, 2007

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