Mr. Vincent Opyene (Fellow-Uganda) is a Senior Warden Prosecution with Uganda Wildlife Authority where he has been prosecuting wildlife cases for six years.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in law and formerly worked as a State Prosecutor.

Through the MENTOR Fellowship Program, Vincent conducted an assessment of the legal regime and institutional governance of illegal bushmeat utilization in Uganda and Tanzania.

Click here to see a Fact sheet of his findings.

Opyene is implementing his project on Law Enforcement in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and Partnership Building with various stakeholders in Uganda.

Mr. Okello Genesis (Fellow-Uganda) works for Uganda Wildlife Authority as an Assistant Warden –Law Enforcement based in Rwenzori Mountains National Park.  Okello has ten years experience in wildlife.

Genesis has over 7 years of formal training in Wildlife Management from Certificate in Wildlife Management (Uganda Wildlife Training Institute) Management, Diploma in Wildlife Management (College of African Wildlife Management-Mweka, Tanzania) and BSc. (Hons). In Wildlife Health and Management (Makerere University Kampala-Uganda) he has worked in the following protected areas in Uganda; Kidepo Valley, Lake Mburo, Murchision Falls, Rwenzori Mountains and Bugungu wildlife reserve in different capacities either as Assistant Warden in charge, Assistant Warden Law enforcement or Junior Warden Tourism and Education.

Through the MENTOR Fellowship Program, Okello conducted an assessment of bushmeat trade and consumption in urban areas with case studies of Kampala, Masindi, Gulu and Kasese.

Click here to see a Fact sheet of his finding.

Prior to that Genesis did an assessment of illegal bushmeat trade in Kampala for his Bsc. Dissertation.

Okello is implementing a project on alternative income generating activities for reformed poachers around Murchison falls conservation area, at Panyango Parish in northern Uganda.