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On Friday, a toddler was eaten by a leopard near Mweya Safari Lodge in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.
According a local report from The Kampala Post, the boy (two-and-a-half-year-old Elisha Nabugyere) was the son of a park ranger. He was pulled from his seat near the Uganada Wildlife Authority’s staff quarters and dragged into the bush.
Attempts to rescue Nabugyere were unsuccessful. His remains were located the following day.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority’s communications manager, Bashir Hangi told The Kampala Post that the incident was unfortunate, and that they were working to track down the leopard. “We are…evaluating options such as relocating it somewhere else. It is not good to keep it ”
“Once it has eaten human flesh,” Hangi elaborated in a statement, “the temptations are high to eat another human being. It becomes dangerous.”
Queen Elizabeth National Park is a popular safari destination. It’s home to some 95 species of mammals — including leopards, lions, elephants and the largest concentration of hippos on Earth.
TPG reached out to both UWA and Mweya Safari Lodge but did not receive a response by the time of publication. A recent statement from the Uganda Wildlife Authority shows that the nation’s national parks have been witness to a number of tragedies, both human and wildlife, in recent weeks.
In early April, four suspects presumably poisoned a pride of 11 lions near Hamukungu Fishing Village. And later that month, a French tourist passed away in Bwindi National Park while returning from a mountain gorilla trek. He died of natural causes.
Source: thepointsguy.com