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Busitema baboons turn to humans for food

The communities have cut down trees, leaving the baboons starving. As a result, the baboons hunt for anything edible from pedestrians and motorists plying the Iganga-Tororo highway. 

A baboon seizing a passenger’s luggage on a motorcycle while searching for food in Busitema Forest Reserve. (Credit: Gerald Tenywa)
By: Gerald Tenywa, Journalists @New Vision


As an unsuspecting motorcyclist with a passenger pulls off the Iganga-Tororo highway in Busitema Forest Reserve, eastern Uganda, a troop of Olive baboons causes a roadblock. 

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Busitema Forest Reserve
Baboons
West Bugwe Forest Reserve
Ecological Christian Organisation (ECO)
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